Cloud Nothings have all the ingredients to make something the incubator should be a huge fan of: bedroom DIY aesthetic, sad bastard lyrics, and a run of singles, albums, etc. geared towards the record nerds. And yet, i've always been a little underwhelmed, even catching them at small, intimate performances (a la SXSW 2010). Well, that's changed. Now that Dylan Baldi is backing himself with a great full band and recording with Steve Albini, the result is the awesome "Attack on Memory" from Carpark Records. It's louder and more guttural than any prior release (more than likely a result of Albini's hands off approach) and throbs with the doom and gloom of something Mark Lanegan or Greg Dulli would have loved in the 90's. But, the album is not a throwback. It's just raw and beautiful. Check out "No Future/No Past" below.
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