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2004 album from the experimental/ambient hip-hop outfit fronted by Doseone & why?. 'Ten' finds cLOUDDEAD building on all the elements that defined their razor sharp vocal interplay, quirky found sound samples, ambient drone, & more. Big Dada.

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3.9 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is not merely hip-hop but a powerful poetic experience, Mar 8 2005

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Alan Ranta (Tiny Mix Tapes) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten (Audio CD)

This is not merely a hip-hop CD, but one of the most powerful poetic and musical experiences to come out of the United States in years. Truly progressive, each track typically begins rather composed with a small sample or delicately repeated note but they always pay off as they peak into a massive sound of looming bass, church organs, white noise, and Doseone's ever flowing imagist poetry. Why? seems to help him focus a bit more on choruses and traditional rhyming structure compared to his freewheeling work with Boom Bip and, since odd nosdam's beats are more structured as well, it is to good effect.

The sound, though, is the most amazing thing about this album. It's often cheap and distorted with occasional lowered sample rates but there are a lot of elevated mid range growls and keyboards while the beats are finely constructed and catastrophically overwhelming. So it's quite busy, interesting, and stimulating as well as easily danceable making it a useful album to have. This is no half-assed, thrown together at the last minute, money driven, mainstream product nor a sit back, moralist indie effort. This is all things to all types of music consumer, low and high brow, and one day it will receive its due recognition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars just holding together, Jun 30 2004

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R. Solomon (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ten (Audio CD)

I had to have a couple of listens to this at my local shop before I decided to by it. My initial impression was that it's just plain weird. I mean the album was filed under hip hop the first tune is titled'pop song'.

Anyway I decided to buy it and after numerous listens it has certainly grown on me. Why? Well a big part are Odd Nosdams' beats. They remind me of a patchwork quilt; all different colours, textures etc...but held together somehow. If you've heard Faust, many tunes have a semi industrial beat feel to them-check "pop song" and "rifle eyes" for instance.

Lyrically these guys are difficult. If they're not dropping lyrics at 100kmh their full of esoteric references and bizzare metaphors. There's also a strong, how do i describe this, reference to animals. In particualr dogs, ostriches and birds. They change their pitch, delivery and timing frequently but it keeps the record interesting. It reminds me of Beck in someways, there's a heap of meaning there but you've got to go searching for it.

This may or may not be the future of hiphop depending on which magazines and reviews you read but Why? Odd Nosdam and Doseone have produced a fascinating pop hop trip hop record that's quirky, lively and difficult. Great stuff.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Different, May 30 2004

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This review is from: Ten (Audio CD)

cloudead is like nothing you'll ever hear anywere else, believe the hype, this album is good.

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