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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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| Anticon's why? and odd nosdam (two-thirds of hip-hop eccentrics cLOUDDEAD) have assembled together to offer a lo-fi collection of surreal sound collage, sewn together by erratic beats and odd-ball samples. Once again defying traditional hip-hop methods, In the Shadow of the Living Room is composed of thirty tracks that together flow into a psychedelic stew of rhymes, deconstructed nursery songs, commercial jingles and Wurlitzer organ manipulations. Like cLOUDDEAD, Reaching Quiet hold no regard for musical boundaries, pulling from influences as disparate as Negativland and Brian Wilson. The result is a fifty-minute flow of music that drifts from stream-of-consciousness ambience to art rock with the occasional emcee appearing to deliver some pretty bizarre rhymes on top. Sinister and equally playful, this could be the kind of music that accompanies Daniel Johnston's hip-hop dreams. - Other Music |
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