Hey! You didn’t forget about the indie rock band Cloud Nothings already, did you? And so soon after their 2012 release Attack on Memory made us all fall in love with Pixies and Pinkerton-emo all over again? Damn. How quickly we forget! Oh man, if only main man Dylan Baldi would put out another record so that you could remember his band again! Alas and alack!
Oh wait. He totally IS. It’s called Here And Nowhere Else. Say, do you want to hear him talk about it? Sweet! Me too!
For starters, it’s apparently a little less sad than the last one. “I was feeling pretty good about everything so I just made stuff that made me happy,” Baldi says. “I had nothing to be angry about really so the approach was more positive and less ‘fuckeverything.’ I just sat down and played until I found something that I like, because I was finally in a position to do that.” Cool! I feel less angry now than I did in 2012 too! I blame Occupy Wall Street. Anyway, so yeah, Baldi wrote a lot of these songs on the road and is even “pretty sure every song was written in a different country.” Then he met up with hot-shit producer John Congleton at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey (which, unfortunately, is only in one boring country) to record it all.
Oh wait, did you still want to hear more quotes about the sound from Baldi? Sure! Let’s do it: “It’s more subtle,” he says. “It’s not just an in-your-face rock record. There’s more going on.” You want some more? BAM: “You can listen to a song 20 times and still hear different little things in there that you didn’t notice before. Every time I listen I notice something that I didn’t even realize we did.” Satisfied? Well, I hope not, because the album will hit us like a wave of mutilation on April 1 via Carpark/Mom+Pop and is available for pre-order as of today on some place called iTunes.biz. In the meantime, you can stream the first single, “I’m Not Part of Me,” below and maybe make up your own quotes about what it sounds like and share them with your friends on Facebook and Twitter! Yeah! Do that!
Here and Nowhere Else tracklisting:
01. Now Hear In
02. Quieter Today
03. Psychic Trauma
04. Just See Fear
05. Giving into Seeing
06. No Thoughts
07. Pattern Walks
08. I’m Not Part of Me
• Cloud Nothings: http://cloudnothings.com
• Carpark: http://www.carparkrecords.com
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