Dylan Baldi maintains simple, admirable standards in quality. “A thing I like to do with all of my records is drive around with them,” the 25-year-old Cloud Nothings frontman says. “In high school, I would listen to music for hours like that: just driving through the suburbs of Cleveland. And if it sounds good to me in that context and I can think of high school me listening to it and saying, ‘That’s okay,’ I feel good about the record. This is the one that’s felt best.” “This” is Life Without Sound, the radiant, far-far-better-than-okay fourth full-length his rock outfit has recorded since he began writing and releasing songs on his own under the Cloud Nothings alias in 2008. While its highly acclaimed predecessor—2014’s Here and Nowhere Else—came together spontaneously, in the little time that touring allowed, Life Without Sound took shape under far less frenetic circumstances. For more than a year, Baldi was able to write these songs and flesh out them out with his bandmates—drummer Jayson Gerycz and bassist TJ Duke—before they finally joined producer John Goodmanson (Sleater Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Texas, for three weeks in March of 2016. The result is Baldi’s most polished and considered work to date, an album that speaks to his evolving gift with melody while also betraying the sort of perspective that time provides. You can hear it in the aerodynamic guitar pop of “Modern Act,” and feel it in the devastating wisdom of “Internal World,” a lullaby-like howler that dwells on “the fact that being yourself can be uncomfortable and even potentially dangerous at times.” “Generally, it seems like my work has been about finding my place in the world,” Baldi says. “But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn't realize you were missing until it's there—hence the title. This record is like my version of new age music,” he adds. “It’s supposed to be inspiring.” It is. Limited deluxe LP on green marble vinyl; special embossed jacket; includes exclusive poster and audio download.

继2012年发行了一张杰出的专辑“Attach on Memory”后，Cloud Nothings宣布将在3月26日由日本率先发行新专辑“Here and Nowhere Else“, 台湾/中国/香港也会由映象唱片在4月1日和美国同步发行。 Here and Nowhere Else是在纽泽西Hoboken录制的，制作人是最近也才制作完Swans乐团的John Congleton。根据媒体叙述，这张专辑更加的精致跟微妙。主唱Dylan Ba ldi说“我对每一件事感到非常的开心，所以我才刚做了让我非常开心的东西。没有任何事可以让我生气，所以一路上都非常的积极而比较少“管他的这一切”“ 在一月初时Cloud Nothings在纽约布鲁克林的Babys All Right演出，把新专辑的八首歌现场初发表给歌迷听，最后也加上了几首“Attach on Memory”的歌曲作结尾。

。低传真、Nosie Pop与庞克精神骚动的惨绿青春乐章 。Nirvana、Pixies制作／录音大师Steve Albini合力打造 。乍现Nirvana《In Utro》时期粗犷不羁的狂躁能量 进入千禧年后，Lo-Fi曲风不但没有随着90年代而逝，反而冒出了许多如Wavves、Tapes’n Tapes、No Age等接棒新秀。2011年，来自美国克里夫兰的年轻人Dylan Baldi化名为Cloud Nothings，在Carpark厂牌下发行了首张同名专辑，以Lo-Fi精神与Noise Rock曲风纪录下乖戾躁郁的青春，满溢出来的青春张力，获得了权威音乐网站Pitchfork 7.9分的好评。 最新专辑《Attack On Memory》由曾经为Nirvana、Pixies打造无数经典的制作／录音大师Steve Albini合作，依旧弥漫Lo-Fi精神的粗犷活力，力道却更加成熟饱满。专辑开场曲〈No Future／No Past〉以抑郁的旋律开场层层堆叠出澎湃激昂的前卫缓飙格局；长度接近9分钟的〈Wasted Days〉，在Dylan Baldi声嘶力竭的畅快怒吼之后，让人血脉贲张的噪音音墙直扑而来；〈Fall In〉短小精悍的Punk曲式，令人联想起早期的Green Day；〈Stay Useless〉一曲所散发出来的青春活力，足以让人勾起窝在沙发上看【瘪四与大头蛋】那款属于90年代的回忆。 “当你孓然一身，便无所畏惧了。（When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. ）”Bob Dylan在〈Like A Rolling Stone〉里这么唱着。这一无所有的匮乏，正如我们的青春，而没有什么音乐比简单粗糙的Lo-Fi精神，更能捕捉这段惨绿岁月，Cloud Nothings生猛带劲的音乐，正好可以让人重新燃起体内温驯太久的小宇宙。

As the Cleveland band returns to Electrical Audio at full force, they retain their penchant for rueful concision and world-weary chronicles of pandemic existence.