I wrote about Westlake's Dylan Baldi and his band Cloud Nothings exactly a year ago on the release of his full length debut, Cleveland's Cloud Nothings Power Pop To Make Us Proud. Tuesday he released the sophomore effort, Attack On Memory, and is getting some nice critical praise.
The album currently has an 81 rating on Metacritic and the online music mavens are talking about him. Here's some quotes.
"So far, 1 and 1/2 listens in, this record is kicking serious ass."
"I ran three miles yesterday after leaving work in a pretty bad mood. This album had me jetting around the park, just a fucking amazing album."
"It's obvious the guy has a way with hooks"
"The second half of the album loses a little bit of steam, but really, this is a solid album overall. I can't get behind preferring the first album to this. This just has that much more energy, intensity, etc.
This is the first new "indie rock" album I've heard in several months that rocked as much as I wanted it to, and I'm not letting you clowns take that away from me."
A listen to the outstanding song "Wasted Days" shows growth and a move away from the straight-forward pop punk of the debut. The song is a bit of an anomaly clocking in at nearly nine minutes when the rest of the compact eight song album averages about three minutes per tune.
Dylan spent some time working on the album in Chicago with Steve Albini. The famed producer's touch is evident.
Baldi's not really breaking new ground here. He's just showing us that rock and roll is not dead.
Artist: Cloud Nothings (surprisingly he doesn't have an official website)
Album: Attack On Memory
Review: A.V. Club
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory on Spotify
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