Quicksand (Noah23 album)

This article is about the album by Noah23. For the album by Ted Curson, see Quicksand (Ted Curson album).

Quicksand
Studio album by Noah23
Released	May 18, 2002
Recorded	2001–2002
Genre	Alternative hip hop Underground hip hop
Length	54:06
Label	Plague Language 2nd Rec
Producer	Noah23 (exec.), Lovely, Naval Aviator, Ognihs, Orphan, Sseleman, Troubadour, Warhol
Noah23 chronology
Neophyte Phenotype (2001) ''Quicksand'' (2002) Tau Ceti (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Exclaim!	(Positive) link
Moving Hands	link
No Ripcord	link
UKHH	(Positive) link
Urban Smarts	(64/100) link
Urbnet	(Positive) link

Quicksand is a 2002 album by Canadian-American alternative hip hop artist Noah23. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} Most of the album's production was handled by Orphan, the Plague Language collective's most prolific producer at the time.

The track "Crypto Sporidian" was released as a split single with the track "Deadly Rays" from fellow Plague Language member Baracuda's debut album Tetragammoth . ^[7] Both tracks were produced by Orphan.

Critical reception

Allmusic gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5 stars. ^[8] Exclaim! wrote that the album "can rock the parties ("Digestive Enzymes"), the dance floors ("Resistance"), headphones ("Hourglass") and the art fags ("The Fall") all while maintaining a cohesive sound." ^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Saw Palmetto"	Warhol	3:04
2.	"Volapuk"	Orphan	3:07
3.	"Crypto Sporidian"	Orphan	4:35
4.	"Octave"	Ognihs	3:01
5.	"Learning Curve"	Orphan	3:14
6.	"Resistance"	Troubadour	3:13
7.	"Hourglass" (featuring Distant Relatives)	Orphan	3:39
8.	"Banded Hairstreak"	Orphan	2:06
9.	"Digestive Enzymes"	Lovely	2:35
10.	"Nocturnal"	Orphan	3:43
11.	"Imhotep"	Orphan	4:12
12.	"Guelph" (featuring Baracuda)	Warhol	2:42
13.	"Zenith Dub"	Sseleman	2:49
14.	"Julia Set"	Orphan	3:01
15.	"The Fall"	Naval Aviator	9:05

See also

• 2002 in hip hop music

References

1. Quicksand review, ukhh.com ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Quicksand review, urbnet.com Archived September 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
3. "Quicksand review, noripcord.com". Archived from the original on 2009-10-09. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
4. Quicksand review, movinghands.net
5. Quicksand review, urbansmarts.com
6. Quicksand review, exclaim.ca
7. Crypto Sporidian / Deadly Rays review
8. Pytlik, Mark. "Quicksand – Noah 23", Allmusic. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
9. Quinlan, Thomas (June 2002). "Noah 23 –Quicksand", Exclaim! . Retrieved November 13, 2011.