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MH-212 Reaching Quiet - In The Shadow Of The Living Room  why? and odd nosdam, two-thirds of the cLOUDDEAD dirt-hop massive, have produced a full-length of catchy bits that each maintain the mystique of a hidden track. A year in the life of two art school dropouts, In The Shadow Of The Living Room finds the obsessive-compulsive duo fighting demons from the bedrooms of their parent's suburban homes. why?'s lyrics read like a list of secrets the world is keeping from itself; odd nosdam's production echoes the slow and low ghost of lo-fi past. Their first full-length release nearly killed them; it's the sound of Edison's ghost, a player piano, and a drum machine broadcast over a Ham radio; or Daniel Johnston and the Ghetto Boys rolling deep in a '57 Chevy with the top down in the dead of winter. |
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| Full of the joy of creating and exploring - All Music Guide / Add this to your arsenal - Tokion / There are so many wonderful beats and sample constructions here that I really have to recommend it - Aiding & Abetting / A fascinating piece of work – Dusted / To be idealised by shoe-gazers and utterly confused by hardrocks for sure - Hip-Hop Connection |
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| Comprised of the team why? and odd nosdam, Reaching Quiet is a suburban symphony in four parts. As the liners say, this puppy was recorded back at the boys' ancestral homes after said artists dropped out of art school. I knew there was a reason for such self-indulgent, meandering stuff. These guys were mooching off their parents and goofing around. That said, there's a whole lot of cool sounds here. You kinda have to mine for them; the songs are decidedly incoherent, and don't even ask about the album as a whole (there are a few themes, but they're stated and restated so unevenly as to be unrecognizable most of the time). Sometimes that's just how it goes. The greatness here isn't in the finished project, but in the pieces. In general this puppy sounds like it was made by a couple of guys too cool for school. Except... there are so many wonderful beats and sample constructions here that I really have to recommend it. Weird? Incomplete? An utter mess? Yep. And yet, most intriguing. - Aiding & Abetting |
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