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.

Tracklist 01. Pop Song 02. The Keen Teen Skip 03. Rhymer's Only Room 04. The Velvet Ant 05. Son Of A Gun 06. Rifle Eyes 07. Dead Dogs Two 08. 3 Twenty 09. Physics Of A Unicycle 10. Our Name

Release Details Release Date: 03/16/2004   Running Time: 42:55   Download/Available/$7.00 1XLP/Available/$10.00 CD/Available/$10.00 Territory: World Excluding UK/Europe License For UK/Europe: Big Dada - Release Date: 03/08/2004

Reviews Summary

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

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30 Music / Alarm / All Music Guide / Alternative Press / Alternative Press / Amp Camp / Aquarius / Barcode / BBC / Big Chill / Canned / Chord / Clamor / Click / CMJ / Cornell Daily Sun / Crashin' In / Daily Barometer / Daily Texan / Delusions of Adequacy / Dimple / Dot Alt / Dot Music / Dream / Drowned in Sound / Exclaim! / Eye Ball Kid / Eye Weekly / Fake Jazz / Filter / Flyer / Fort Lauderdale City Link / Fugue / Ghetto Blaster / Grooves / Harvard Independent / Igloo / Impact Press / Indie Workshop / Insound / Interboro Rock Tribune / Magnet / Massachusetts Daily Collegian / Mean Street / Mega Star / Mojo / Monday / Music Spork / No Ripcord / Opus / Pitchfork / Positively Yeah Yeah Yeah / Post Everything / Prefix / Repellent / San Francisco Bay Guardian / San Francisco Examiner / Spin / Splendid / Stylus / Sunday Herald / The Beat Surrender / The Brainwashed Brain / The Guardian / The Milk Factory / The Observer / The Onion / The Satellite / The Stereo Effect / The Times / The Wire / Tiny Mix Tapes / Tokion / Tucson Citizen / Uncut / Under the Radar / Undercover / Urb / XLR8R / 'Sup /

cLOUDDEAD's second release delivers with a colorful array of experimental hip-hop eccentricity. Featuring Anticon members, Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam sharing vocal and production duties, Ten is ten original compositions, functioning as one unapologetic patchwork mosaic of out-sound. This record should speak to those closet-genius experimental musicians that subscribe to nontraditional methods. The opening "Pop Song" is nifty with its thick layer of variable vocal tracks, but I really flipped for the following, "The Teen Keen Skip", with its skipping sample, repeated chorus breaks, and dribbling vocals. Ultimately, this record deserves many thoughtful listens though impatient non-believers will jump off this bandwagon before getting comfortably acquainted. True, it's best suited for those persevering sleuths on the path to decipher the abstract cLOUDDEAD mission: deCONSTRUCT! - Clamor