Indicud
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Indicud
Indicud is the third studio album by American rapper Kid Cudi. It was released on April 12, 2013, by Republic Records. It was the first album of Cudi's solo career to not be an installment of his Man on the Moon series. The album's cover artwork was designed by Kid Cudi himself, who also served as an executive producer of Indicud. It was Cudi's goal to make more uptempo and positive music with the album. He described it as a completely new format compared to his previous albums. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Pitchfork
Featuring guest spots from Kendrick Lamar, RZA, and A$AP Rocky as well as Father John Misty and Michael Bolton, Kid Cudi's 70-minute third album Indicud has all the sheen of a cinematic event, but no substance.
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Billboard
"Indicud" isn’t going to win Kid Cudi new fans, and it might actually have the net effect of scaring off a few older ones, but as the first step in the direction of total self-sufficiency for an artist many hip-hop fans write off as just a hook man, there’s a lot of range on display. And as weird as these songs are, a lot of them are quite good.
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Rolling Stone
Someday this Cleveland MC/producer/former weed enthusiast will find the lyrical and vocal charisma to match the scrumptiously dark, quasi-industrial tenor of his moody beats. But Cudi’s pitchy-dawg voice remains his own worst enemy.
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Consequence of Sound
The point is, this record just proves that Kid Cudi has a lot of sorting to do, and continuing down the same old path simply won’t cut it in the long-run.
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The A.V. Club
In spite of its brighter outlook, though, Indicud is still a Kid Cudi record, and like its predecessors, it’s a long, unhurried listen, paced like drifting fog.
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NME
On the track ‘Immortal’, Kid Cudi calls himself “the smartest man alive”. It’s an unfortunate statement to make on the 29-year-old’s third and worst album.
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Hip Hop DX
Indicud is an ambitious project that Kid Cudi took a blind shot at, and while by no means does he completely exemplify his immortal identity, he certainly makes a compelling case nonetheless.
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Band Wagon Magazine
Indicud proves that Kid Cudi has a distinct niche, but he does it so well that it could never be considered a rut in his career. His ability to cultivate unique ideas within a genre that is typically filled with various versions of the same thing is a testament to the creative power of the substance that spawned stoner rap.
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Earmilk
Indicud, Cudi’s fourth studio album, is nothing but a manifestation of this desire to do everything himself, an accumulation of everything from the intergalactic space sounds of his demo to the not-quite-minimalist guitar chords of WZRD.
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Sputnik Music
Experimental production and sluggish vocals might bore or alienate some, but the album is still an interesting experience for those wishing to expand their minds.
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Complex
It's a rich amalgamation of his most recent life experiences, replete with a risky sonic landscape that finds Cudi at the helm of every note of production. There's significant growth at play here.
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XXL Magazine
Indicud is an at-times very good album, but it's certainly no 2001. This isn't because of a lack of ingenuity or creativity on Cudi's part, but rather because the decision to act as the project’s sole producer didn’t do him any favors.
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Spin
Indicud, an album that the mercurial rapper has claimed in interviews is more “positive” than his lonely stoner adventures of yore, trading inert depression for defiant, defensive “King Wizard” triumphalism.
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Pop Matters
Indicud is an album that feels right at home in Kid Cudi's discography and isn't likely to sway a listener from one end of the spectrum to the other.
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The Pop Break
Indicud is what Kid Cudi is now, a hip-hop artist who is strongly influenced by many other types of genres and can easily flow between whichever sounds he is feeling at the time.
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The Highlander
“Indicud” is far from what people expect considering the focal beats and vocals aren’t what are highlighted, as in his previous works. Kid Cudi revisits his past influences with some dark tracks presented in a new way.
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Global Grind
It’s been a long time coming since Kid Cudi initially announced the arrival of his Man On The Moon trilogy closer, Indicud. And if the prophecy is correct, good things DO happen to those who wait. The 18-track collection depicts what Cudi fans first fell in love with- the Cleveland rapper’s relatable misery.
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All Music
After an amicable split with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label, Kid Cudi's third official album landed on Island proper, but it comes off as a label sampler itself, perhaps for the mythical Indicud Records (and that's the marijuana type Indica mixed with the name Cudi) or Kid Enterprises where the Cleveland rapper executive produces it all.
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The Musical Hype
Although lengthy and overstuffed, Kid Cudi delivers plenty of intriguing moments throughout the course of his third studio album, ‘Indicud.’
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Elevator Mag
Kid Cudi’s fourth studio album, Indicud, is just that. It is the body high of his career – an uptempo movement that takes to you an alternative mental space. With 18 tracks that have strayed away from his chill, thought provoking, smoke out music that were heard on the first two records, Cudder delivers a new energy that we haven’t ever heard on any of his previous albums.
Listeners Reviews
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As the release of this album. I was a freshman in college. and this became the soundtrack to my first semester. With daring experimentation and amazing collaborations indicud is one of my favorite projects by my favorite. artist. i could be bias but thats for you to decide. 5/5
By clifford r
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