Singer/guitarist Dylan Baldi’s wildly catchy gloom-punk peaked on Cloud Nothings’ two most recent LPs, the panicked grandiosity of 2012’s Attack on Memory and last year’s cacophonous Here and Nowhere Else. The three-piece had such a high-profile 2014 that even brother in lo-fi arms Wavves’ Nathan Williams grabbed Baldi this year to record the joint mini-LP No Life For Me a totally respectable move…save for the fact that fans might’ve preferred another round of Baldi tunes with his power trio.
Cloud Nothings is an American indie-rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, founded by singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi. It currently consists of lead singer and guitarist Baldi, drummer Jayson Gerycz, and bassist TJ Duke.
Beginning in 2009, the band originally began as a solo project, with Baldi recording both vocals and instrumentals in his parents’ basement, although he performed live with a full band. The band is signed with Washington, D.C.-based Carpark Records. Their third album “Here and Nowhere Else” was released on April 1, 2014.
Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi who has truly kept the rock genre afloat. Though the band had its work cut out for it after “Attack On Memory” was lauded as a modern classic in 2012, “Here And Nowhere Else” remains self-assured in the face of any outside expectations. Even as Cloud Nothings slims down to a trio after the departure of guitarist Joe Boyer, the band continues to settle into itself without any noticeable gaps in its sound. There’s a wiry aggression that runs throughout the album, evinced by Baldi’s rabidly snarling chord progressions and the rhythm section’s ability to turn every note into an emphatic punch. Whether the band is going into noisy jams (“Pattern Walks”) or writing poppy post-punk that would make Mission Of Burma drool (“I’m Not A Part Of Me”), Cloud Nothings seems content to live in the moment; we’re just lucky to be along for the ride.
love this track from the band CLOUD NOTHINGS, taken from the new album “HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE” the band retain the power and intensity of this highly acclaimed band impossibily melodic but with a white knuckle rock sound that shimmers with corkscrew guitars.
CLOUD NOTHINGS the band to see next
“I’m Part Of Me”
, Cloud Nothings former single, enhanced everything I loved about
Attack On Memory,
while boasting some of the most instantly gratifying hooks Dylan Baldi has ever written. On the mercurial, cunning “Psychic Trauma,” we’re left with the other side of the band, but one that is no less staggering. The track launches as mid-tempo punk-pop sensation before quickly unfolding its boiling upsurge. Just listen to Jayson Gerycz drums towards the end and tell me that it isn’t the most impressing climax you’ve ever heard from the band. So far, both these tracks stretch their legs in relation to
Attack On Memory
and hints of a more fearless songwriting, but on here, Baldi also sounds angrier than ever.
As I’ve already mentioned
, Baldi told that the new album contains songs that made him happy; “I had nothing to be angry about really, so the approach was more…
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