| 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 | |||
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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]
| 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]
| 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 | |
Credits adapted from liner notes.
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