Ten (Clouddead album)

Ten
Studio album by Clouddead
Released March 8, 2004 (2004-03-08) (UK)[1]
March 16, 2004 (2004-03-16) (US)[2]
Recorded 2001–2003
Genre Abstract hip hop, cloud rap, psychedelic hip hop
Length 56:58
Label Big Dada (UK)
Mush Records (US)
Producer Odd Nosdam, Doseone, Why?
Clouddead chronology
Clouddead
(2001)Clouddead2001		 Ten
(2004)
Singles from Ten
  1. "Dead Dogs Two"
    Released: 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The A.V. Clubfavorable[5]
CMJ New Music Reportfavorable[6]
The Guardian[7]
The Observer[8]
Pitchfork7.8/10[9]
PopMattersmixed[10]
Stylus MagazineC+[11]
The Telegraphfavorable[12]
The Village Voiceunfavorable[13]

Ten is the second album by American hip hop trio Clouddead.[14] It was released on Mush Records and Big Dada in 2004.[2]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Ten received an average score of 74% based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

Molloy Woodcraft of The Observer gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "A mish-mash of odd found sounds, woozy synths and hip hop beats form a bed for a collective scattershot collage of musings on love, life and mortality".[8] Ed Howard of Stylus Magazine said, "Having allowed hip-hop to fall pretty much entirely by the wayside, the trio has instead embraced the full strength of their abstract poetry and glitchy, junky, rock-informed musical landscapes."[11] Chris Dahlen of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.8 out of 10, saying, "the strongest moments on Ten involve a sustain: sustained organ tones, long throbbing noises, stretches where the words trail off."[9]

In February 2004, The Observer listed "Dead Dogs Two" as the "Song of the Month".[15]

CMJ placed Ten at number 10 on the "Top 20 Albums of 2004" list.[16] In 2015, Fact placed it at number 71 on the "100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time" list.[17]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Pop Song"5:47
2."The Keen Teen Skip"5:19
3."Rhymer's Only Room"2:23
4."The Velvet Ant"2:49
5."Son of a Gun"5:48
6."Rifle Eyes"3:53
7."Dead Dogs Two"3:59
8."3 Twenty"3:01
9."Physics of a Unicycle"4:16
10."Our Name"19:40

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Ten - cLOUDDEAD". Big Dada. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "MH-230: cLOUDDEAD - Ten". Mush Records. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Ten by cLOUDDEAD". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Bush, John. "Ten - cLOUDDEAD". AllMusic. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ Battaglia, Andy (March 23, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: Ten". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher R. (March 1, 2004). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Report: 4.
  7. ↑ Simpson, Dave (March 5, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD, Ten". The Guardian. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  8. 1 2 Woodcraft, Molloy (February 22, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: ten". The Observer. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Dahlen, Chris (February 12, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: Ten". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ Morris, David (March 25, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD: Ten". PopMatters. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  11. 1 2 Howard, Ed (March 5, 2004). "cLOUDDEAD - Ten". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  12. ↑ Thompson, Ben (March 8, 2004). "CD reviews: Squarepusher, Harry Connick Jr, Lionel Richie and more". The Telegraph. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ Harvell, Jess (February 10, 2004). "Billy-Goat-Gruff - Dada-rapper fails to keep trap shut". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ Wheeler, Melissa (January 1, 2006). "CLOUDDEAD - Ten". Exclaim!. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  15. ↑ Mulholland, Garry (February 1, 2004). "'Dead Dogs Two' by cLOUDDEAD". The Observer. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  16. ↑ "The CMJ Top 20 Albums of 2004". BrooklynVegan. December 21, 2004. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  17. ↑ "The 100 best indie hip-hop records of all time: 71. cLOUDDEAD - Ten (Mush, 2003)". Fact. February 25, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
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