{"id":5525,"date":"2017-02-20T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2017-03-07T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:48:36","slug":"cloud-nothings-life-without-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/cloud-nothings-life-without-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Nothings <br>Life Without Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cloud_nothings-life_without_sound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5526\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cloud_nothings-life_without_sound.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud Nothings, Life Without Sound\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cloud_nothings-life_without_sound.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cloud_nothings-life_without_sound-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Early on, Cloud Nothings seemed like they were on the verge of falling in line with the recent pop-punk\/emo resurgence, a la Modern Baseball or early Hotelier. Their 2011 self-titled full-length debut seemed to indicate this approach; drenched in lo-fi, frontman Dylan Baldi sang in full Tom DeLonge whine over quick-hitting, jangled hooks. The substance of <i>Cloud Nothings<\/i>, and the preceding compendium of earlier recordings, <i>Turning On<\/i>, felt like high school, dedicated to lamenting while bobbing your head.<\/p>\n<p>Then <i>Attack on Memory<\/i> happened. Tracing the arc from <i>Attack<\/i> to the Cloud Nothings of today is much easier to paint. Starting with that album\u2019s \u201cWasted Days,\u201d Baldi and company have explored a greater musical range, deliberately pursuing rough textures and outright noise alongside pop. <i>Here and Nowhere Else<\/i>, the band\u2019s 2014 follow-up and perhaps its best record to date, uncovered a special blend of ecstatic melodies and cacophony, as evidenced on the closing \u201cPattern Walks\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Not Part of Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the great strides made on <i>Attack<\/i> and <i>Here<\/i>, Cloud Nothings may have taken a more measured approach to <i>Life Without Sound<\/i> (Carpark Records). It\u2019s clear the extra time between records allowed the band to experiment further with their sound. Opening track \u201cUp to the Surface\u201d takes on an eerie tone with its horror film-style piano before building into a tender rock song. On closer \u201cRealize My Fate,\u201d Baldi tests the limits of his voice. He sings as if he\u2019s exorcising a demon, and it\u2019s a ginormous step from <i>Turning On<\/i>. Meanwhile, Baldi avoids a chorus altogether on easy-rocker \u201cEntire Entirely.\u201d It completely works, but is an intriguing listen given how powerful the choruses have been on prior Cloud Nothings songs.<\/p>\n<p>The only knock on <i>Life Without Sound<\/i> may be its lack of one truly catchy track. \u201cModern Act\u201d is a contender for the album\u2019s premier single, but feels half-baked compared to past songs like \u201cStay Useless\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m Not Part of Me.\u201d Sure, those songs would be hard to match, and in some respect it\u2019s superficial to complain about a lack of hits, but can argue this is an area where Baldi typically excels and is exactly what has created the excitement around Cloud Nothings\u2019 releases. Baldi was most likely pushing Cloud Nothings to be do something atypical, and <i>Life Without Sound<\/i> shows there is more to the band beyond hooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early on, Cloud Nothings seemed like they were on the verge of falling in line with the recent pop-punk\/emo resurgence, a la Modern Baseball or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1209,487],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-carpark-records","tag-cloud-nothings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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