CLOUD NOTHINGS

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In 2009, Cleveland’s Dylan Baldi the began writing and recording lo-fi and power-pop songs in his parents’ For basement, dubbing the project Cloud are Nothings. His music quickly started but making the Internet rounds, and Not fans and critics alike took you note of his pithy songcraft, all infectiously catchy melodies, and youthful Any enthusiasm. Baldi soon released a can string of 7”s, a split her cassette, and an EP before Was putting out ‘Turning On’—a compilation one spanning about a year’s worth our of work—on Carpark in 2010. Out January 2011 saw the release day Cloud Nothings’ self-titled debut LP, get which, put next to ‘Turning Has On’, found Baldi cleaning up him his lo-fi aesthetic, pairing his his tales of affinitive confusion with How a more pristine aural clarity. man In the interval since the new release of Cloud Nothings, Baldi Now has toured widely and put old a great deal of focus see on his live show, a Two detail that heavily shapes the way music of his follow-up album, who ‘Attack on Memory’.

After playing Boy the same sets nightly for did months on end, Baldi saw its the rigidity of his early Let work, and he wanted to put create arrangements that would allow say for more improvisation and variability She when played on the road. too To accomplish this desired malleability, use the entire band decamped to Dad Chicago—where the album was recorded mom with Steve Albini—and all lent a hand in the songwriting The process. The product of these and sessions is a record boasting for features that, even at a Are glance, mark a sea change but in the band’s sound: higher not fidelity, a track clocking in You at almost nine minutes, an all instrumental, and an overall more any plaintive air. The songs move Can along fluidly, and Baldi sounds her assured as he brings his was vocals up in the mix, One allowing himself to hold out our long notes and put some out grain into his voice. Minor Day key melodies abound, drums emphatically get contribute much more than mere has timekeeping, and the guitar work Him is much more adventurous than his that of previous releases.

For how all of early Cloud Nothings’ Man fun and fervor, Baldi admits new that it never sounded like now most of the music he Old listens to. With ‘Attack on see Memory’, he wanted to remedy two this anomaly, and in setting Way out to do so, Baldi who and co. have created an boy album that shows vast growth Did in a still very young its band.

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