On the Shelf 114: Cloud Nothings
Apr. 5th, 2014 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter232014 hasn't been too good to me for new music. Which of course, is unfair, there is likely lots of good music out, but it hasn't made it's way to me. In any case, my first reak rave to date is Here and Nowhere Else by the Cloud Nothings.
I picked up on the Cloud Nothings two years ago on the Steve Albini- produced Attack on Memory. The band does "loudfast" like anything else, but the touchpoints were the highpoints of 90s indie. Certainly there was a bit of emo (as it was then) and Dischord records with influences from Jawbreaker, Jawbox, Fugazi and Nirvana. So the band wasn't just 12-th generation Nirvana, here was also a certain amoutn of Pavement influence seeping in. They had been going strong for a couple of years and it was a bit of a revelation.
I was excited for new material and Here and Nowhere Else is excellent.
At eight songs (most of which are around three minutes), it's quick, but, that's fitting, as it really is a quick attack of an album.
There's still plenty of what you would call 'those 90s influences', but I feel a real Replacements vibe on this one. I will have to go back and see if that was there before, but I don't remember it.
In any case, I pick up something Westbergian, and I mean that in all good ways- it's a shambolic but beautiful sonic push.
Dig.
I picked up on the Cloud Nothings two years ago on the Steve Albini- produced Attack on Memory. The band does "loudfast" like anything else, but the touchpoints were the highpoints of 90s indie. Certainly there was a bit of emo (as it was then) and Dischord records with influences from Jawbreaker, Jawbox, Fugazi and Nirvana. So the band wasn't just 12-th generation Nirvana, here was also a certain amoutn of Pavement influence seeping in. They had been going strong for a couple of years and it was a bit of a revelation.
I was excited for new material and Here and Nowhere Else is excellent.
At eight songs (most of which are around three minutes), it's quick, but, that's fitting, as it really is a quick attack of an album.
There's still plenty of what you would call 'those 90s influences', but I feel a real Replacements vibe on this one. I will have to go back and see if that was there before, but I don't remember it.
In any case, I pick up something Westbergian, and I mean that in all good ways- it's a shambolic but beautiful sonic push.
Dig.
