"Bizarre but essential... gloriously uncategorisable. A difficult record, but one whose astonishing inventiveness more than repays the work you will need to put in"

"By all that is clean and pure, 'cLOUDDEAD' should be a crap album. Instead, it's genius. It's illogical, indescribable, tip of the tongue, freeform genius that might simply be a pisstake, in which case the genius is all the more pronounced. Put it this way, stick this on full blast and listen to it start to finish and, by the end, the world will look very different. There aren't many albums you can say that about. Genius. Yes. Definitely."

"Sublime hip hop genius"

"While much of the hip hop world is busy counting cash in the back of a limo, cLOUDDEAD work away to find new places for the genre to go. The atmosphere echoes DJ Shadow's extraordinary Endtroducing, as innocent clips of music and media take on unsettling new resonances as part of an exotica of slow rolling beats, Tom Waits-like bone-shaking and lofi grit. If you've abandoned mainstream hip hop and are wondering where to head, jump in at the dark end"

"Too often it's a lazy tag - but this is truly original"

"The two standout qualities of cLOUDDEAD are their sense of fun and the sheer aesthetic quality and originality of their music and wordplay"

"A sweetly demented melange of basic beats, orchestral drones and jabbering voices... a soundtrack of which Luis Bunuel or William Burroughs would have been proud. Not the stuff of radio breakfast shows, but creepily humorous and, above all, unique"

"A welcome challenge to hip hop's very raison d'etre"

"The future of hip hop… listen carefully and you’ll get the same thrilling sense of a new world opening up that the first LL Cool J album or A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders gave to people"

"Beautiful and strange"

"Compelling stuff"

"(A) psychedelic ride round hip hop’s outer reaches"

"If immersing yourself in music and getting taken to a far away place is your bag, I strongly advise you to check cLOUDDEAD out…. A landmark album"

"Zoned-out, squashed melon hip hop, spacey and gorgeous… a beautiful thing"

"Perhaps the most all-enveloping, engrossing, perplexing, sublime listening experience you'll have all year."

"Nonconformist hip-hoppers caught halfway between the stoopidest comic strip and the heaviest literature, burning rulebooks with glee"

"Imagine listening to Kid A one minute, then Cypress Hill the next, then both at once. That good and twice as peculiar"

"A fascinating and addictive brew"

"Dose One is one of the most important and exciting artists in hiphop today"

"cLOUDDEAD's psychedelic debut is a welcome breath of fresh air in the often stale world of rap music. Twelve tracks of textual trickery and verbal delights - go seek!"

"It sounds like Boards of Canada, Isaac Hayes and Blackalicious thrown in a gloriously psychedelic blender. It's ace. Buy it."