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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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| As pervasive as indie/underground hip-hop has become in the last five or so years, it's inevitable that it would begin to cross-pollinate with other compatible music forms in order to preserve the integrity of the species. Emerging from the ranks of the Bay Area cLOUDDEAD crew, this disc offer a species of choice flora resulting from the labor of some increasingly busy bees. Reaching Quiet is a vehicle for two-thirds of cLOUDDEAD - vocalist/instrumentalist why? and sound sculptor odd nosdam - that allows the exploration of even quirkier and more stream-of-consciousness territory than does their main gig. In fact, listening to a release - the meat of the show is so interspersed with barely relevant commercial breaks that it all begins to blur together by the time it's over. Imagine the offspring of a feverish coupling between De La Soul and Frank Zappa and you'll have an idea of where they're coming from; more generally speaking, they do a fine job of approximating a pop culture milkshake made in a swap-meet blender. But even if the disc's cut-n-paste aesthetic and tongue-in-cheek humor may have you wondering where you misplaced that straightjacket if ingested in one sitting, the blindsiding heaviness of "Broken Crow" and "You Choke" provide some welcome substance during the closing movement. - Signal to Noise |
2XLP/Out Of Print