Album review: Cloud Nothings – s/t
Cloud Nothings is the alter ego of Dylan Baldi, a man barely out of his teens who already in the past year has released a full length album (Turning On) and a split EP with Kevin Greenspon. As his popularity has increased Baldi has been able to take his recordings from the basement of his parents’ house to a proper studio in Baltimore and on top of that he’s also been able to recruit a proper producer in Baltimore’s Chester Gwazda. The fruit of their labour is this, the self titled second full length album and it’s a cracker. Cloud Nothings is an energetic and fizzy burst of Weezer style pop power mixed with garage punk and some jangly guitars thrown in for good measure. Add to that some cool lo-fi production and a slacker attitude reminiscent of a young Lemonheads and the result is an effervescent, scuzzy but seriously catchy masterpiece. It doesn’t hang around either, with eleven tracks clocking in a just over 28 minutes, from the opening seconds of the album the pace is that of a runaway train and by the end of it I feel as exhausted as I would have trying to stop one! If I had to try and pick a highlight then it would probably be opener ‘Understand At All’ but it’s an almost impossible task, the whole is an absolute joy to listen to! 9/10
Mark Cousens
Out now on Wichita
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