Silversun Pickups w/Cloud Nothings & Atlas Genius: at Marathon Music Works (Nashville, TN) Thu. October 25, 2012

Silversun Pickups w/Cloud Nothings & Atlas Genius

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Something in the Ohio waters must breed melodic lo-fi wizardry. From the tradition of The Mice in the ’80s, Guided By Voices in the ’90s, and Times New Viking most recently, comes Cloud Nothings, the nom de plume of college-age Clevelander Dylan Baldi. Cloud Nothings emerged from his parents’ basement with 2010’s Turning On, and in three short years has graduated from DIY cassette circuit to Pitchfork elite, thereby cementing his place in the Buckeye State guitar-rock pantheon. 2011’s breakneck Cloud Nothings showcased his gift for creating wide-eyed mini-anthems with equal parts C86 jangle and downstroked punk-rock fury. Accompanying videos played like an alternate-universe Adventures of Pete and Pete set in rust-belt suburbia. The jury’s still out on Cloud Nothings’ 2012 full-band debut Attack on Memory, with its ambitious eight-minute songs and weighty Steve Albini production, but that hasn’t kept Baldi from enjoying a wave of prolificacy that’d make GBV’s Robert Pollard proud. Playing with Silversun Pickups and Atlas Genius.

—CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

Marathon Music Works

Thu. 10/25/12
Show: 7:00 PM
$30.00 - $32.00
18 and over
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Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from Pop Matters)

Well, the inevitable happened. Cloud Nothings garnered a bunch of internet buzz last year due to the really wonderful lo-fi pop EP, Turning On--oh, and also due to the fact that "band" was really just 19-year-old Clevelandite Dylan Baldi recording himself in his parents' basement. The buzz led him to put a touring band together, collect the original EP and some other singles on a somewhat lopsided extended extended player, also called Turning On, and go into a real life studio to record a proper......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from NME)

Just over a year ago, 19-year-old Dylan Baldi was studying sax and audio recording in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Unlike most first year students cry-wanking over Facebook or smoking crystal meth through the arsehole of a cat, Dylan did more with his time out. He recorded a succession of singles and EPs in his parentsâ?? basement through a single mic and home computer that would form a rough demo album in 2010â??s â??Turning Onâ??. Along with everything else last year that was ......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from Drowned In Sound)

While young Dylan Baldi - aka Cloud Nothings - may seem to fit into the presently over-saturated childish guitar noise bracket, it's the sheer joie de vivre of his power-pop centric debut that could well mark it as one of this year's finest discoveries. As soon as the drum beat collides into the shreds of radio stained guitars on 'Understand At All', it's plain to see that pondering is not a part of Baldi's remit. A brief interlude from the force of the melodic bass allows him to vocally ache h......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from pitchfork)

Last Fall, Dylan Baldi-- the young, bespectacled face and brains behind Cleveland power-pop outfit Cloud Nothings-- was gearing up for two simultaneous releases: a delicious new 7" single and a wide-release compilation that wrangled together nearly every other hook he had burned to cassette, vinyl, or CD-R in the year before. While both shared remarkably strong songwriting, said single was recorded without much of the fuzz and distortion that enveloped his work up until that point. The di......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from Clash Music)

Essentially the brainchild of Cleveland teenager Dylan Baldi, and arriving soon after last autumn's 'Turning On' (a compilation of his early DIY singles), this 'proper' debut album was written in a fortnight and recorded with Baltimore producer Chester Gwazda. Consequently, it's more refined with Baldi still steamrollering through his high velocity frat-punk. There are hooks aplenty, but it is only when the freneticism relents on the driving Wilco-esque 'Forget You All The Time' does Baldi's so......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from altsounds)

The brainchild/alter ego of young musician and Cleveland resident Dylan Baloi. What first began as a home basement project has since grown. When Dylan first began composing three years ago, due to having a very basic home set up; his ideas were being translated into a very lo-fi format. Not intentionally how the sound was supposed to bestow but as the feel for the writing and recording grew, the lo-fi flavour remained. Another sensation of a web find, Dylan's music hosted online gained a large f......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from Gigwise)

Cloud Nothings' self-titled debut breezes in like a welcome breath of fresh air, just weeks after Britain's answer to Lady Gaga and My Bloody Valentine's musical cousin were labelled as 2011's musical compass. Signed in the UK to Wichita, Dylan Baldi's scratchy recording gives it the unpolished warmth of an album recorded two or three decades ago. And its catchy indie-rooted hooks, punk-engorged riffs and lo-fi tendencies give it a teenage bedroom-pop effect that makes it instantly likeable. T......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from Filter Magazine)

Dylan Baldi has some mighty keen instincts. When given the opportunity to open for Woods and Real Estate during his college finals, the 18-year-old freshman decided to drop out of school and springboard his basement lo-fi project out of its infancy. The decision has proved a sound one. Cloud Nothings' self-titled debut displays Baldi's feral chops in natural light. Eleven punk-fueled songs sport enough palpable energy to keep Cloud Nothings afloat. Baldi plays every instrument on the record, and......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from No Ripcord)

Coming into my musical existence, I immediately fell in love with strong male singer-songwriters like Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, Billy Bragg, and Neil Diamond. Still holding tight to my copy of Hot August Night, I've always searched far and wide for more of the same as I've continued my rich musical life. While I may not have found a legend this time around, Cloud Nothings, the stage name for Cleveland teenager Dylan Baldi, offers up a dose of lo-fi pop that instills a microscopic fragmen......

CLOUD NOTHINGS - CLOUD NOTHINGS (from Aquarius Records)

So much awesome pop on this week's list, The Disciplines, Yuck, Telekinesis!, and this, the latest from Cleveland fuzz poppers Cloud Nothings. Just check out the first song "Understand At All", and odds are you'll be sold. Jangly fuzzy guitars, bubbly basslines, slightly snotty sounding vox, all sunshiney and crunchy, and but then the song slips into the chorus and it becomes transcendent, the vocals shifting to a sweet falsetto, the guitars muted, the drums holding it all together, which leads ......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from AV Club)

Somebody needs to sit Dylan Baldi down and teach him the value of conserving his hooks. The Cleveland teenager slashes though catchy melodies like broken guitar-strings on his full-length debut as Cloud Nothings, as if mad dashes of melodicism grew on trees. Surely an older, thriftier songwriter would have tried to milk more out of "Heartbeat" than Baldi, who's content to simply yelp the infectious chorus several times for barely more than a minute before abruptly changing the subject. Baldi has......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings - review (from The Guardian)

Cloud Nothings is the project of a young Ohioan named Dylan Baldi, who's clearly a bit of a renaissance man of lo-fi: he writes and records his spunky, punky pop on his own, recruiting a band for touring, and had released an album - on cassette, indie purists - before his teens were out. What's more, a dormant MySpace account shows him to have a nice line in lambent piano instrumentals, too. This fuzzily recorded album shows he's got a deep well of hooks to plunder, and he knows when to stop. He......

Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (from beat)

Bespectacled Brit Dylan Baldi has been making wav(v)es with his short, sharp songs, which are now contained within his first album proper (after a run of singles and demos were cobbled together as an album last year). From the double hit of opening songs Understand At All and Not Important, you know you're in for a run of bratty power-pop-punk in the style of Nathan Williams. Baldi goes one further with the brevity factor in the middle of his self-titled album, throwing in franti......

Cloud Nothings - iCloud Nothings/i (from Paste Magazine)

A little more than a year ago, Cloud Nothings front man Dylan Baldi was cranking out a steady stream of effortless power pop gems that reeked of classic suburban boredom and earnest lo-fidelity. On Cloud Nothings' new self-titled release, Baldi finds himself with the double-edged resources of a studio, hindsight and ambition. The result, not surprisingly, is a sound that is different and much clearer. The heavy fog of fuzziness of Turning On has lifted to a light haze and the ambling sonics have......

Cloud Nothings - Erik Ziedses des Plantes (from Prefix Magazine)

19-year-old Cloud Nothings mastermind Dylan Baldi spent the past year racking up a series of home-recorded EPs and singles when he wasn't busy logging in serious tour mileage, which brings him now to his self-titled debut full-length for indie label Carpark. The album was recorded in a warehouse in Baltimore's Copycat Building by Chester Gwazda (Dan Deacon, Future Islands), who substantially boosted the fidelity of Baldi's jangly, hook-laden indie-punk jams. Continuing in the tradition of his ea......

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