Ten (Clouddead album)
Ten | ||||
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Studio album by Clouddead | ||||
Released | March 8, 2004 | |||
Genre | Abstract hip hop | |||
Length | 56:58 | |||
Label |
Mush Records (US) Big Dada (UK) | |||
Producer | Odd Nosdam, Doseone, Why? | |||
Clouddead chronology | ||||
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Singles from Ten | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | (74/100)[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The A.V. Club | (favorable)[3] |
Drowned in Sound | (8/10)[4] |
The Guardian | [5] |
The Observer | [6] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.8/10)[7] |
PopMatters | (mixed)[8] |
Stylus Magazine | (C+)[9] |
The Telegraph | (favorable)[10] |
The Village Voice | (unfavorable)[11] |
Ten is the second album by American hip hop trio Clouddead.[12] It was released on Mush Records and Big Dada in 2004.[13]
Reception
At Metacritic, Ten received an average score of 74% based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]
Molloy Woodcraft of The Observer gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "A mish-mash of odd found sounds, woozy synths and hip hop beats form a bed for a collective scattershot collage of musings on love, life and mortality".[6] Chris Dahlen of Pitchfork Media felt that "the strongest moments on Ten involve a sustain: sustained organ tones, long throbbing noises, stretches where the words trail off."[7] Ed Howard of Stylus Magazine said: "Having allowed hip-hop to fall pretty much entirely by the wayside, the trio has instead embraced the full strength of their abstract poetry and glitchy, junky, rock-informed musical landscapes."[9]
In February 2004, "Dead Dogs Two" was chosen by The Observer as their Song of the Month.[14]
In 2015, Ten was chosen by Fact as one of the 100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time.[15]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Pop Song" | 5:47 |
2. | "The Keen Teen Skip" | 5:19 |
3. | "Rhymer's Only Room" | 2:23 |
4. | "The Velvet Ant" | 2:49 |
5. | "Son of a Gun" | 5:48 |
6. | "Rifle Eyes" | 3:53 |
7. | "Dead Dogs Two" | 3:59 |
8. | "3 Twenty" | 3:01 |
9. | "Physics of a Unicycle" | 4:16 |
10. | "Our Name" | 19:40 |
Personnel
- Yoni Wolf (Why?) - voice, sampler, lyrics, production
- Adam Drucker (Doseone) - voice, sampler, lyrics, production
- David Madson (Odd Nosdam) - sampler, voice, production
References
- 1 2 "Ten - cLOUDDEAD". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Bush, John. "cLOUDDEAD - Ten". AllMusic. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Battaglia, Andy (March 23, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: Ten". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Lawrence, Alistair (March 12, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD - Ten". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Simpson, Dave (March 5, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD, Ten". The Guardian. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- 1 2 Woodcraft, Molloy (February 22, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: ten". The Observer. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- 1 2 Dahlen, Chris (February 12, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: Ten". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Morris, David (March 25, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: Ten". PopMatters. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- 1 2 Howard, Ed (March 5, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD - Ten". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Thompson, Ben (March 8, 2004). "CD reviews: Squarepusher, Harry Connick Jr, Lionel Richie and more". The Telegraph. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Harvell, Jess (February 10, 2004). "Billy-Goat-Gruff - Dada-rapper fails to keep trap shut". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Wheeler, Melissa (January 1, 2006). "CLOUDDEAD - Ten". Exclaim!. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ "MH-230 cLOUDDEAD - Ten". Mush Records. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ Mulholland, Garry (February 1, 2004). "'Dead Dogs Two' by cLOUDDEAD". The Observer. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ "The 100 best indie hip-hop records of all time - 71. cLOUDDEAD - Ten (Mush, 2003)". Fact. February 25, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
External links
- Ten at Discogs (list of releases)
- "Dead Dogs Two" on SoundCloud