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Clouds (Apollo Brown album)

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as "almost archaic", blown speakers and a keyboard with only 16 working keys. The artist admits that he'd tried using newer and bigger studio equipment but ultimately returned to his usual setup, which he used for more than a decade, as he's more familiar with it and as it allows him to keep his
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gave the album three out of five, saying that it was "more akin to a beat tape than an album". Mike Baber of RapReviews gave the album nine out of ten and called it "a very impressive and thoroughly enjoyable effort", noting that "album's sheer range and variety of songs is remarkable".
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received mixed reviews from music critics. Despite that, it ended up being Apollo Brown's highest-selling album and the one he considers the most important in his career.
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magazine Apollo Brown also said that his fans loved the album and always asked him to make another instrumental album. Reluctantly, in 2014 he released
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was a "pretty big success". As of 2022, it's his highest-selling album. He considers
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to be the most important album of his career. In an interview with
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received mixed reviews from critics. Roman Cooper of
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using his unorthodox hardware setup: a computer with
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A hand-drawn picture of a man, wearing a yellow shirt with a tie, standing on white background, with his head hidden in a cloud. The album's title is written in bottom right corner.
Studio album
Apollo Brown
Genre
Instrumental hip hop
Label
Mello Music Group
Producer
Apollo Brown
Detroit
Apollo Brown
Mello Music Group
Cool Edit Pro
MTV
HipHopDX
HipHopDX
The Source
Thirty Eight
Oddisee
Apollo Brown
"Stream: Apollo Brown, "Tao Te Ching""
MTV
the original
"Apollo Brown Explains Using Broken Studio Equipment To Keep Signature Sound"
HipHopDX


"Apollo Brown - Clouds"
HipHopDX

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