Level Live Wires

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]

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)

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