Level Live Wires

Level Live Wires
Studio album by Odd Nosdam
Released	August 28, 2007 (2007-08-28)[1]
Genre	Hip hop
Length	39:48
Label	Anticon
Producer	Odd Nosdam
Odd Nosdam chronology
Burner (2005) Level Live Wires (2007) Pretty Swell Explode (2008)

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

Professional ratings

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

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

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

1. "Level Live Wires". Anticon. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
2. "Charts". Dusted Magazine. August 28, 2007. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
3. "Level Live Wires by Odd Nosdam". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
4. Greene, Jo-Ann. "Level Live Wires - Odd Nosdam". AllMusic. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
5. Keresman, Mark (October 24, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". East Bay Express. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
6. Moehlmann, Jeremy (August 15, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires - Anticon". Filter. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
7. Love, Joshua (January 18, 2008). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
8. Schiller, Mike (October 22, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". PopMatters. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
9. Modell, Josh (September 2007). "Reviews: New CDs". Spin: 136.
10. Rosenberg, Tal (August 30, 2007). "Odd Nosdam - Level Live Wires". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
11. Khamsaysoury, Som (June 18, 2007). "Odd Nosdam :: Level Live Wires". URB. Archived from the original on May 24, 2008. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
12. Lopez, Luciana (August 6, 2007). "Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires". XLR8R. Retrieved June 24, 2018.

External links

• Level Live Wires at Discogs (list of releases)