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MH-206 cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD  "It's all the same shit but they call it cLOUDDEAD." cLOUDDEAD is the avant-hip-hop grouping of Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam. Fusing abstract beats, ambient pads, and interweaving vocals, cLOUDDEAD has created a release that owes as much to the Beatles as it does to hip-hop. Like Doseone and why?'s Greenthink project, cLOUDDEAD renounces the traditional hip-hop song format in favor of music made in movements. Six such movements were created to be released as a limited edition ten-inch series. Each release features a guest (Illogic, Dj Signify, Sole, the Wolf Bros., Mr. Dibbs, and The Bay Area Animals) and focuses on a specific theme. All six are combined to create a full-length that nullifies any preconception of style and raises the artistic bar for future Mush releases. |
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| Genius. - Mixmag / Utterly Essential - NME / Enthralling - All Music Guide / Startlingly Original - Wax / Certainly Beautiful And Strange - Rocksound / Fascinating And Addictive - Esquire / A Landmark Album - Seven / No combination of adjectives could accurately portray what you'll hear and no second-hand gushing will prepare you for the immense pleasure that is sure to wash over you when you put this album on. - Stylus |
| Every now and then, an album comes along that is smarter than any listener, not in an egotistical way, but simply in a way that requires listen upon listen upon listen to even hope for absorption. The first full-length from IDM alternative hip-hop goth whatever collective cLOUDDEAD is just such a release. This is beyond your Talib Kweli album, even beyond your El-P collection. Defying even genre labels, this collection of six pairs of two-track releases holds together in a mind-bending head trip sort of way that leaves you questioning everything. There's really no way to even attempt to describe it, and words fail while trying to. With ambient soundscapes that would make Brian Eno cry, and lyrics like "Don't loose your shoes over such a simple step as hitting the ground," cLOUDDEAD takes the very notion of music and warps it around itself, concocting something that's here to teach us all a lesson in art, magnificence and beauty. In the words of cLOUDDEAD themselves, "It's all the same shit but they call it cLOUDDEAD." I don't think so. This, by far, is not "the same shit." Nothing has ever been heard like this before or since. Take a listen. Expand yourself. - Jive |
3XLP/Out Of Print