|
 |
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. |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 / Original and eccentric - Alarm / Strident and sophisticated - Grooves / Uniquely promising and satisfying - Stylus |
| The pick of the week is Ten, the new Mush Records release from the mysterious cLOUDDEAD and a hypnotizing mind melt that falls into the genre mash of avant hip-hop, dropping enigmatic lines and phrases like a Burroughs cut-up poem, brain-jammed by an overdose of fragmented beats. Falling between Negativland and the Butthole Surfers, cLOUDDEAD weaves an urban feel into the found sounds, roundabout beats, and slowly swirling churns, punched by droned or rapid-fire vocal interplay like nightmarish symphonies. - Positively Yeah Yeah Yeah |
