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Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings

Lo-fi indie / power pop on the debut album proper after a series of highly-rated EPs from Cleveland teenager Dylan Baldi

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7.1

Label
Wichita
UK Release date
24/01/2011
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  1. 9.1 |   A.V. Club

    Even at its most frenetic, Cloud Nothings never loses its grip on Baldi’s mile-a-minute songwriting
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  2. 8.0 |   BBC

    It’s terrifically fleet of foot and free of attitudinising; to the point where the breakneck approach may even be selling his evident skills as a songwriter short
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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    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
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  4. 8.0 |   Entertainment.ie

    The most fun you'll have with a guitar record for quite some time
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  5. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Cloud Nothings is unfussy, hectic and hook-heavy
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  6. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    There is so much hook to be found here from corner to corner that, unlike similarly, ostensibly simple records, multiple listens are required to appreciate the taste of all its herks and jerks
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  7. 7.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    The work of another young mind who seems gifted beyond his years
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  8. 7.0 |   Spin

    Despite trading innocent charm for grown-up polish, Baldi's buzzy lo-fi pop still feels nicely rickety
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  9. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Speedy rock and hooky songs
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  10. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    A catchy voice amidst the sea of bedroom outfits
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  11. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    It all hits you at 78-rpm, and that these guys have the dexterity to recall the unadorned energy of 1977 punk is their greatest asset
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  12. 7.0 |   NME

    A fun, frenetic and crisp debut that is more resplendent than his lo-fi scuzz
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  13. 6.5 |   Prefix

    A couple of stellar additions to Baldi's rapidly metastasizing oeuvre, and a couple of songs whose play counts won't inch past two or three
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  14. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s good, but nothing special
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  15. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    This fuzzily recorded album shows he's got a deep well of hooks to plunder, and he knows when to stop
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  16. 5.0 |   FasterLouder

    If you’re not attuned to Baldi’s approach from the outset – that is, track one, the frenetic Understand At All – then your experience of the record is as good as done
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