Cloud Nothings Cleveland, OH For a band that resists repeating itself, picking up lessons from a decade prior is the strange route Cloud Nothings took to create their most fully-realized album. Their new record, The Shadow I Remember, marks eleven years of touring, a return to early songwriting practices, and revisiting the studio where they first recorded together. In a way not previously captured, this album expertly combines the group’s pummeling, aggressive approach with singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi’s extraordinary talent for perfect pop. To document this newly realized maturity, the group returned to producer Steve Albini and his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, where the band famously destroyed its initial reputation as a bedroom solo project with the release of 2012 album Attack on Memory. The songs are kept trim, mostly around the three-minute mark, while being gleefully overstuffed. Lyrically, Baldi delivers an aching exploration of tortured existence, punishing self-doubt, and the familiar pangs of oppressive mystery. “Am I something?” Baldi screams on the song of the same name. “Does anybody living out there really need me?” It’s a heartbreaking admission of existential confusion, delivered hoarsely, with an instantly relatable melody. Despite the questioning lyrics, the band plays with more assurance and joy than ever before. The Shadow I Remember announces Cloud Nothings’ second decade and it sounds like a new beginning. Cloud Nothings’s tracks Sound Of Alarm by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:23:42Z Open Rain by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:23:37Z A Longer Moon by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:23:10Z Only Light by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:23:07Z It's Love by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:22:22Z Oslo by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:22:09Z Nara by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:22:03Z The Room It Was by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-15T17:21:21Z Nothing Without You by Cloud Nothings published on 2021-01-03T19:55:40Z The Spirit Of by Cloud Nothings published on 2020-10-25T22:53:39Z