| The home-dwelling four-tracking mix-smoking shit-talking cats of the sprawling Anticon collective have gone long beyond their initial smart-ass goal of "the advancement of hip-hop." With this debut longplayer for Reaching Quiet - crew/clan members why? and odd nosdam; perhaps best known as two-thirds of cLOUDDEAD - finally arriving after a long wait, it's become clear that the weirdest members of the collective - cLOUDDEAD, basically - wish to recreate the mid-90's home-recording experimentalism issued by the most underground denizens of the indie-rock massive. With a manic case of short-attention-span and the cultivation of an entirely in-joke-centric sense-of-humour, the thirty-songs-long In the Shadow of the Living Room happily gets lost in the dustiest reaches of their bong-water-stained carpet-pile, grounding their craft in ground-in dirt, happy that their shitty home-recording equipment buries every song in a dust-bunny haze. Collating all manner of bizarre samples, and taking the cut-and-paste maxim to safety-scissors-and-clag-glue ends, the set goes beyond being just willfully difficult; its neophytic embracing of an experimental mindset finding the pair trying their hardest to make things hard going. - Gravity Girl |
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