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MH-230 cLOUDDEAD - Ten  Ten finds cLOUDDEAD building on all of the elements that defined their debut: razor sharp vocal interplay, quirky found sound samples, ambient drone dreamscapes, lyrics that walk the line between observational and confessional, and a fair share of nosdam drums slowed to a growl. Doseone and why? never take the cheap way out. Their lyrics may range from blurry and buried to sharp and surfaced, but each and every line has meaning. The music and production are collaborative, featuring Doseone's knack for bottling emotion, why's self-taught multi-instrumentalist efforts, and odd nosdam's flair for borrowed genius. Individually, Doseone, why? and odd nosdam are as prolific and fearless as anyone in today's new music scene, but together as cLOUDDEAD they are able to create music that captures all of the promise of their individual talents in an unequaled sound. |
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| All must hail - BBC / A brilliant swan song - CMJ / Genuinely Original - Uncut / Catchy and Sublime - Under The Radar / Unquestionably, cLOUDDEAD have arrived - Pitchfork / It's golden. - Magnet / Original and eccentric - Alarm / Its merits are aplenty and deep - Flyer / Strident and sophisticated - Grooves / Uniquely promising and satisfying - Stylus |
| It’s been nearly three years since Bay Area avant hip-hop threesome Clouddead sailed their debut full-length, inflaming message boards and backpacker discussions as fast as fingers could type. With their second LP, Ten, MCs Why? and Doseone with beatrinarian Odd Nosdam evade the tendrils of desolation that curled around the last record by riding portly vocal harmonies, distracted poetry and wickedly tailored beats into sophomore maturity. While there’s more comforting melodic cohesion on this album, the hovering sadness hasn’t disappeared completely. Instead, it has touched down, hardened slightly around the dogs, death, bicycle physics and soldiers delivered in fast raps, rhyme trade-offs and startling samples. With a style practically poised for degeneration into novelty, the group displays its musicianship and artistry and wades further into its own personal hip-hop/not-hip-hop landscape. Quality. - Exclaim! |
