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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 |
| cLOUDDEAD, everyone's favourite post-hop Dadaists, strike back on Mush with a new album called Ten. Perhaps the most useful, albeit utterly obvious, thing I can say about this album is that you will enjoy it if you are a cLOUDEAD fan. But there are perhaps other angles from which to appreciate it. My buddy, for example, thought that the whole thing was justified because the last thirty seconds powerfully reminded him of the sound of the vacuum cleaner which he used to sleep beside as a child. I have been rather cursorily dismissive of Doseone in the past, but there is no doubt that he has a lot of talent, and knocks pretty much every emcee on the planet out of the ring when it comes to unfettered creative vision. Partners odd nosdam and why? are similarly skilled in their craft, and I have a lot of respect for their ability to transcend genre and taste in their mission to forge exactly what they want out of modern music. Certainly worth getting if you like your music challenging, and possibly the only contemporary hip-hop band that people will still listen to thirty years hence. - Undercover |
