Music Review

Cloud Nothings

Album | Cloud Nothings
By T. Cole Rachel

Perfect for pogoing around your teenage bedroom.

Dylan Baldi, the one-man-band wunderkind behind Cloud Nothings, is a natural when it comes to tossing off scrappy two-minute indie-pop tunes that stick in your brain all day long. While early Cloud Nothings singles sounded like they might have been recorded on an old Sony Walkman buried in a pile of dirt, Baldi worked with an actual producer this time around, and may have even spent more than five minutes on the recording. The resulting self-titled album, while more polished than his earlier work, still has the bratty snarl and requisite amount of fuzz that fans have come to expect. “Understand at All” and “Nothing’s Wrong” are equal parts sweet and sour: super sweet pop gems bashed out with the kind of goofy aplomb that only happens when, like Baldi himself, you are 19 and living in your parents basement somewhere in Cleveland.

TAGS: cassette culture, garage, Indie, lo-fi, one-man-bands, pop,

FACTS: Released: January 25, 2011 (Carpark Records); Duration: 28:01

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