Cloud Nothings

Add Date: February 1 

Artist: Cloud Nothings 

Album: Cloud Nothings 

Label: Carpark 

Genre: Rock, lo-fi 

Comments: The songs written by Dylan Baldi, the 19-year-old Cleveland native behind Cloud Nothings, have been said to include "angsty, bored, snotty lyrics," and that's by the company that's promoting this record. And, strangely, that line is meant as a compliment. Perhaps in the great tradition of Pavement's deliberate sloppiness--and certainly in the style of contemporaries like Wavves, Male Bonding and No Age--there's a fuzzy, noisy charm to Cloud Nothings, the band's debut full-length. (You may remember Turning On, released back in the fall, which was a compilation of singles, EPs and other odds and ends in album form.)

A solid record from a band to keep an eye (or ear) on. Start with "All the Time," "Understand at All" and "Been Through."