| We are finally blessed with the latest recorded efforts of Anticon super group extreme cLOUDDEAD, featuring the prodigious individual talents of Doseone, why? and odd nosdam, amalgamating unfettered musical imagination with a newly found adroitness at assimilating the most disparate of influences into their inimitably tangential Technicolor not-hop. Returning single "Dead Dogs Two," despite being arguably the one track on new album Ten NOT to whip up an imposing maelstrom of delirious originality, still serves fine as the notional cLOUDDEAD pop song (there is, by coincidence, a track on the album called "Pop Song," which isn't.). Even here, however a discreet fug of early-nineties English psychedelia, all held tones and wraithlike feedback, cloaks the deceptively honeyed harmonizing about bloodied tendons and reincarnated canines, while any accusation of over-egged feyness arising from the sardonic sing-along chorus is punctured by the arcane intonations of Werner Herzog closing the whole thing up. The chunky, melody-drenched Boards of Canada remix, meanwhile, conjures an enticing prospect: Boards of Canada as left-field hip-hop super-producers. - The Milk Factory |
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