| Level Live Wires | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 28, 2007[1] | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 39:48 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
| Producer | Odd Nosdam | |||
| Odd Nosdam chronology | ||||
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Level Live Wires is a studio album by American hip hop producer Odd Nosdam. It was released on Anticon in 2007. It peaked at number 14 on the Dusted Top 40 Radio Chart in 2007.[2]
Critical reception
[edit]| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| East Bay Express | favorable[5] |
| Filter | 87/100[6] |
| Pitchfork | 7.0/10[7] |
| PopMatters |   [8] |
| Spin | [9] |
| Stylus Magazine | B[10] |
| URB | [11] |
| XLR8R | favorable[12] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]
Jo-Ann Greene of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "From blurry dub and chill to doom-laden pieces, ambient sweetness to street noise effects, Nosdam's sounds and samples swirl round and round, coalescing into ever more surprising aural shapes and moods."[4] Joshua Love of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.0 out of 10, calling it "a tightly constructed soundscape that hangs together more cogently than anything he's conceived to date."[7]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "On" | 0:58 |
| 2. | "Kill Tone" | 5:10 |
| 3. | "We Dead" | 1:21 |
| 4. | "Freakout 3" | 4:05 |
| 5. | "Fat Hooks" | 5:46 |
| 6. | "Blast" | 1:49 |
| 7. | "The Kill Tone Two" | 4:54 |
| 8. | "Burner" | 5:50 |
| 9. | "Up in Flames" | 4:54 |
| 10. | "Slight Return" | 1:58 |
| 11. | "Off" | 3:16 |
| Total length: | 39:48 | |
Personnel
[edit]Credits adapted from liner notes.
- Odd Nosdam – everything else
- Dee Kesler – keyboards (2, 7), guitar (2, 7), autoharp (6), noise (9)
- Jel – drums (2, 7, 9)
- Doug McDiarmid – piano (2, 9)
- Josiah Wolf – bass guitar (4, 8)
- Chris Adams – keyboards (4), vocals (4, 8) violin (8), guitar (8)
- Jessica Bailiff – vocals (5)
- Hilde Bialach – cello (6)
- Cosmos Lee – violin (7)
- Yoni Wolf – vocals (7)
- Tunde Adebimpe – vocals (7)
- Antimatter – mastering
References
[edit]- ^ "Level Live Wires". Anticon. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
- ^ "Charts". Dusted Magazine. August 28, 2007. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ a b "Level Live Wires by Odd Nosdam". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ a b Greene, Jo-Ann. "Level Live Wires - Odd Nosdam". AllMusic. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Keresman, Mark (October 24, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". East Bay Express. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
- ^ Moehlmann, Jeremy (August 15, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires - Anticon". Filter. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
- ^ a b Love, Joshua (January 18, 2008). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ Schiller, Mike (October 22, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". PopMatters. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ Modell, Josh (September 2007). "Reviews: New CDs". Spin: 136.
- ^ Rosenberg, Tal (August 30, 2007). "Odd Nosdam - Level Live Wires". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ Khamsaysoury, Som (June 18, 2007). "Odd Nosdam :: Level Live Wires". URB. Archived from the original on May 24, 2008. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
- ^ Lopez, Luciana (August 6, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". XLR8R. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Level Live Wires at Discogs (list of releases)
