I know my faithful
readers are going to worry about me writing about the band Cloud Nothings. They understand that I love bands with beautiful harmonies and melodies, but every now and then
you just need to turn the volume up to eleven and rock out. If you need to do
that, you should be doing it to this band from Cleveland.
The band is the
brainchild of Dylan Baldi. Dylan went to Case Western Reserve University where
he was studying audio recording. He tired of it and dropped out to work on
recording his own music in his parent’s basement. He did all the instruments,
vocals, and recording himself. He started putting his songs on his My Space
site and started getting noticed quickly. A couple of up and coming bands heard
his stuff and asked him to tour with them as an opener. He then put together a
touring band and hit the road. He gained more notice and signed with Carpark Records in 2010. He went into the studio as a one man band and came out as a
trio now known as Cloud Nothings. They released the self-titled record the same
year.
I fell in love with them
from their 2012 album Attack on Memory.
This album features screeching feed backed fuzz guitars and the desperate vocals
of Dylan wailing about the sad state of growing up young in America. When I
heard this band for the first time I was brought in by his vocals of despair
and alienation. It reminded me of the first time I heard Kurt Cobain with Nirvana.
The power of the music and vocals makes you have to listen to what they have to
say. Dylan is speaking for an alienated youth that needs to be heard. The song "Wasted Days" was one of my favorite songs of that year. Cloud Nothings
just released last month their new album Here
and Nowhere Else. It is a bit heavier but still has the reverb, fuzz, and
echo that make them so good. Here is "I'm Not Part Of Me" which is the single off the new album:
This band puts on some of
the best and most intense live shows you will ever see. They are trashing all
over the stage because they are so into their music. Please see them when they
come to your town. Even if you are not wowed by their sound, their too good
live to not see them.
