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Cloud Nothings

The brainchild of Dylan Baldi, Cloud Nothings are standard-bearers of driving, heartfelt indie rock. When the buzz about Baldi's music started, the Cleveland, Ohio native was still in his teens and his project was a one-man band specializing in the kind of lo-fi punk-pop captured on 2011's Cloud Nothings. Once Baldi recruited other members to give his music more heft, as on 2012's Attack on Memory, Cloud Nothings came into its own. On later albums like 2018's Last Building Burning, the band mastered its mix of hardcore intensity and surprisingly sweet melodies. With their early 2020s output -- 2020's The Black Hole Understands, 2021's The Shadow I Remember, and 2024's Final Summer -- Baldi and company gave a newfound maturity to the pithy, hooky sound of Cloud Nothings' roots. Cloud Nothings began in 2009, when Baldi, then a freshman at Case Western Reserve University studying music/audio technology, recorded songs in his parents' basement when he returned home on the weekends. He posted his songs online under a variety of band names, one of which was Cloud Nothings. After uploading the songs "Hey Cool Kid" and "Whaddaya Wanna Know" to his MySpace page, a promoter asked Cloud Nothings to open a Brooklyn show for Woods and Real Estate, and Baldi's imaginary band became a real one when he assembled a lineup for the December 2009 gig. Baldi dropped out of school to focus on Cloud Nothings and issued a flurry of 2010 releases that included singles on the Group Tightener and Old Flame Records labels as well as the Turning On EP. On the strength of all this music, Baldi signed to Wichita Records in the U.K. and to Carpark in the U.S. Later that year, Carpark reissued Turning On with selected tracks from his other singles. Along with dates with Wavves, Titus Andronicus, and Best Coast, Baldi began work on Cloud Nothings' full-length debut in Baltimore, Maryland's Copycat Building studio with producer Chester Gwazda. The results of those sessions became Cloud Nothings, which arrived in January 2011. A few months later, Baldi and his band went into the studio with Steve Albini to make 2012's much rawer, heavier Attack on Memory. The album marked Cloud Nothings' chart debut, reaching 121 on the 200 Albums Chart in the U.S. and 41 on the U.K. Indie Albums Chart. That July saw the release of the Live at Grog Shop EP, which captured a particularly blistering set from the Attack on Memory tour. During a break in the band's heavy touring schedule, in 2013 Baldi took some time to put the finishing touches on new material. Soon after, the band headed into a Hoboken, New Jersey studio with producer John Congleton to lay down tracks for Cloud Nothings' fourth album, 2014's Here and Nowhere Else, which peaked at 50 in the U.S. and at 26 in the U.K.. That year, Baldi collaborated with Wavves' Nathan Williams on No Life for Me, a split album released by Williams' Ghost Ramp label in 2015. Cloud Nothings returned in 2017 with Life Without Sound, a more polished-sounding set recorded in El Paso, Texas with producer John Goodmanson that reached number 15 on the U.S. Independent Albums Chart and 18 on the U.K. Albums Chart. For 2018's raw Last Building Burning, the band worked with producer Randall Dunn, who helped bring the intensity of Cloud Nothings' concerts to the studio. When the COVID-19 global pandemic brought live music to a standstill in 2020, the band the band released a slew of live albums that included some of their earliest shows. Cloud Nothings also created that July's jangly, melancholy The Black Hole Understands with filesharing and socially distanced recording sessions in Philadelphia and Cleveland. Another album recorded at those sessions, Life Is Only One Event, was released that December as part of their subscription service, along with a year's worth of monthly EPs that began in August 2020. Cloud Nothings returned in February 2021 with The Shadow I Remember, which revisited the hooky pop of Baldi's early days and featured production by Steve Albini as well as contributions from Brett Naucke and Ohmme's Macie Stewart. The album reached number 17 on the U.K. Albums Chart. Cloud Nothings returned to playing live later in 2021, with dates including a show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a U.S. tour celebrating the tenth anniversary of Attack on Memory in late 2022. Around that time, the band issued Live at Red Palace, a document of a 2012 show in Washington, D.C. Early in 2023, Cloud Nothings slimmed down to the trio of Baldi, drummer Jayson Gerycz, and bassist Chris Brown. They signed to Pure Noise Records late that year and issued their first album for the label, Final Summer, in April 2024. Recorded with Jeff Zeigler and mixed by Illuminati Hotties' Sarah Tudzin, the album imbued the raw catchiness of The Shadow I Remember with more polish and heft.
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