Cloud Nothings: Cloud Nothings (2011)

 

El verdadero debut en disco grande de Dylan Baldi se ha producido a comienzos de este año, con su primer álbum, Cloud Nothings (2011), obra homónima del proyecto cuasi unipersonal de Dylan. Porque así es como se presentó al gran público el año pasado, con sus Ep´s y sencillos que le hicieron ganarse la atención de la crítica. Como sabes, algunos de esos temas se recopilaron en su Turning On (2010), aunque su verdadero disco de debut es este. Salvada esta explicación, os diré que la música de Cloud Nothings ha madurado un tanto y ha mejorado principalmente su sonido, evolucionando desde el Bedroom-Pop de sus primeros sencillos hasta este punto en que se encuentra: su música se presenta animosa y enérgica, con la vitalidad -lógica- de un chico de diecinueve años que prefiere componer temas y tocarlos aunque sea en su dormitorio que a pasarse el día chateando y jugando a consolas. ¿Sus referentes más cercanos? Buzzcocks, They Might Be Giants, Ash, Sebadoh, Weezer… Bandas que tienen como punto en común su pasión por las melodías sencillas, estribillos pegadizos y un sentido ciertamente acelerado del ritmo. Personalmente prefiero al Dylan Baldi de Hey cool kid que al de Understand at all o Not important, los dos mejores cortes del álbum. No por nada, sino porque allí encontré realmente buenas gemas Pop, y con la entrega actual me hallo ante buenos y consistentes temas, pero que pisan un terrano que ya han hollado previamente demasiadas bandas. Con todo, en Cloud Nothings (2011), los enamorados del sonido digamos que Surfero con aliños Post-Punk pueden tener material de sobra para disfrutar la media hora escasa que dura.

Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (2011)

“Just over a year ago, 19-year-old Dylan Baldi was studying sax and audio recording in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Unlike most first year students cry-wanking over Facebook or smoking crystal meth through the arsehole of a cat, Dylan did more with his time out. He recorded a succession of singles and EPs in his parents’ basement through a single mic and home computer that would form a rough demo album in 2010’s ‘Turning On’.
Along with everything else last year that was branded ‘lo-fi’ or ‘scuzzy’, the blogosphere tossed itself dry over the one-man band. ‘Turning On’ did, however sound like it had been recorded in a drink can with tin-pot instruments and sung through a snorkel. But for all its technical shortcomings, it did map out a blueprint of latent pop gems – albeit in the manner of a Crayola on a fag packet.
Baldi’s debut album proper, titled under his moniker Cloud Nothings, has made his scribbles and mumblings more audible. Moreover, his ear for a hook and a holler filters through with detail beyond the debris of white noise that plagued his home recordings.
The result is a fun, frenetic and crisp debut that is more resplendent than his lo-fi scuzz. ‘Understand At All’ and ‘Not Important’ burst through the door like gunmen with jittery fingers, as snare drums snap against unhinged guitar hooks akin to the Buzzcocks. ‘Should Have’ cuts a similarly bouncy intro to that of Pixies’ ‘The Holiday Song’, as bites like a rabid Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers grimacing over ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’. There are moments when ‘Cloud Nothings’ sounds like your average punk-pop record, but Baldi is willing to render outside the lines with his own idiosyncratic noodlings and daubs of C86-era colour” (nme.com)

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Cloud Nothings: Leave you forever (Single, 2010)

Continuamos con el hilo iniciado hoy mismo y ese nuevo fenómeno que hemos dado en llamar Bedroom-Pop. Cloud Nothings es un proyecto del que posteamos aquí mismo hace poco otro de sus temas. El que hoy nos ocupa es Leave you forever, animoso y enérgico tema en onda más Surf-Punk, un poco al estilo Wavves. La cuestión es que Dylan Baldi parece tener ingenio y talento suficiente para tocar diferentes palos con la misma soltura, ya que este Leave you forever no tiene nada que ver con Hey cool kid, el tema aparecido anteriormente en The JangleBox. Puedes encontrarlo, igualmente, en descarga legal y gratuita.

Cloud Nothings – Leave you forever (Single, 2010)

“Cloud Nothings is the brainchild of 18 year old Cleveland resident Dylan Baldi.  Late in 2009, he started recording a bunch of catchy indie rock songs on his computer in the basement of his parent’s house. Dylan wasn’t so concerned with them being lo-fi.  But since he only had his simple computer and a crappy microphone that’s the way they turned out.  Almost immediately praise was bestowed upon young Dylan, and as new songs were unleashed, the online excitement only grew.
Dylan needed to take his songs on the road, so he formed a band with TJ Duke on bass, Jayson Gerycz on drums, and Joe Boyer on guitar.  Their first show was in New York last December opening for Real Estate and Woods.  Since then the band has played SXSW, toured with Wavves, and played shows with such bands as Titus Andronicus, Parts & Labor, Best Coast, and Kurt Vile. Their live shows have become super tight, displaying an intensity and precision rarely seen in bands of any age.
2010 has been very busy for Cloud Nothings.  First there was the Turning On EP, then a seven inch single on Group Tightener and then another one on Old Flame. In August, True Panther released a Cloud Nothings single as well, and there is a super rare split cassette release on Bathetic.  This fall, Carpark compiles the Turning On EP, the Group Tightener single, and two songs from the split cassette for a handy introductory compilation called simply “Turning On”. Cloud Nothings are recording their first full length this summer in Baltimore with Chester Gwazda who has also recorded albums for folks like Dan Deacon and Future Islands.  The album is planned for a winter 2011 release.  It probably won’t be as lo-fi as his past stuff” (rcrdlbl.com)

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Cloud Nothings: Hey Cool Kid (Single, 2010)

Cloud Nothings es una de esas bandas que tanto nos gustan en The JangleBox. No sólo por su valor musical -que lo tienen-, sino porque es uno de esos proyectos unipersonales paridos en el garaje del domicilio del responsable musical del grupo, en este caso Dylan Baldi, un chico de dieciocho años que, ordenador, guitarra y micrófono en mano se ha marcado un disco que es altamente recomendable, por lo intenso de sus melodías y sus ritmos. Guitarras jangle, tonos Post-Grunge… Grabado con poquitos medios, este Hey cool kid, es buen ejemplo de su música. Lo podéis encontrar, como siempre, pinchando en el enlace, gentileza de RCRDLBL, para su descarga legal.

Cloud Nothings – Hey Cool Kid (Single, 2010)

“Cloud Nothings is the brainchild of 18 year old Cleveland resident Dylan Baldi.  Late in 2009, he started recording a bunch of catchy indie rock songs on his computer in the basement of his parent’s house. Dylan wasn’t so concerned with them being lo-fi.  But since he only had his simple computer and a crappy microphone that’s the way they turned out.  Almost immediately praise was bestowed upon young Dylan, and as new songs were unleashed, the online excitement only grew.
Dylan needed to take his songs on the road, so he formed a band with TJ Duke on bass, Jayson Gerycz on drums, and Joe Boyer on guitar.  Their first show was in New York last December opening for Real Estate and Woods.  Since then the band has played SXSW, toured with Wavves, and played shows with such bands as Titus Andronicus, Parts & Labor, Best Coast, and Kurt Vile. Their live shows have become super tight, displaying an intensity and precision rarely seen in bands of any age.
2010 has been very busy for Cloud Nothings.  First there was the Turning On EP, then a seven inch single on Group Tightener and then another one on Old Flame. In August, True Panther released a Cloud Nothings single as well, and there is a super rare split cassette release on Bathetic.  This fall, Carpark compiles the Turning On EP, the Group Tightener single, and two songs from the split cassette for a handy introductory compilation called simply “Turning On”. 
Cloud Nothings are recording their first full length this summer in Baltimore with Chester Gwazda who has also recorded albums for folks like Dan Deacon and Future Islands.  The album is planned for a winter 2011 release.  It probably won’t be as lo-fi as his past stuff” (rcrdlbl.com)

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