{"id":3981,"date":"2012-04-10T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2012-04-10T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:18:29","slug":"cloud-nothings-attack-on-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/04\/10\/cloud-nothings-attack-on-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Nothings \u2013 Attack on Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6142492846120149\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3982\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/04\/10\/cloud-nothings-%e2%80%93-attack-on-nothing\/cloud-nothings-attack-on-memory-300x300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3982\" title=\"Cloud-Nothings-Attack-on-Memory-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cloud-Nothings-Attack-on-Memory-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most bands, creating a nine minute track (here, \u201cWasted Days\u201d) that only has approximately 45 words and is mostly instrumental would seem overly indulgent. <!--more-->But in the hands of Cloud Nothings \u2013 releasing a darker, out-of-left-field album compared to their previous effort \u2013 it\u2019s almost an exercise in frustration and rebellion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JIitQNXVgb8\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWasted Days\u201d<\/a> features the chorus \u201cI thought! I would! Be more! Than this!\u201d which seems to channel the feelings of a significant set of the population, giving the ideas room to seethe before they come crashing back towards the end of the song.<\/p>\n<p>These ideas repeat throughout the album. In fact, every song title is a downer. Starting with<\/span><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6142492846120149\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RVO5OYoZQHc\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cNo Future\/No Past,\u201d<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HtkePLlTUcY\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStay Useless,\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LQqtb4E57RY\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSeparation,\u201d<\/a> every track has some sort of emphasis on the idea of doubt. Dylan Baldi, who started the band in 2009 while at university, seems to be going through a bit of retrospection and questioning of his past (like so many students mid- and post-university). This is in contrast to the music, which sounds extraordinarily brash and assured. Despite the angst and thoughts of uselessness and failure, <em>Attack on Nothing<\/em> is one of the best indie guitar-rock releases in a long time. (Carpark, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carparkrecords.com\/\">carparkrecords.com<\/a>) <strong>Devin King<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most bands, creating a nine minute track (here, \u201cWasted Days\u201d) that only has approximately 45 words and is mostly instrumental would seem overly indulgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[453,1053],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-indie","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}