A new season began yesterday (March 19), and we are officially declaring it the Spring of Cloud Nothings. Dylan Baldi and Cleveland’s finest trio celebrated in the loudest way possible, offering up a fuzzed-out new jam called “I’d Get Along” that soundtracks a wealth of other important info, including a new album called Final Summer (oh no, what do they know?!) out April 19 on Pure Noise Records, and an extensive North American tour that plays Crystal Ballroom in Somerville on May 6.
Like all the other classic Cloud Nothings tracks, “I’d Get Along” should sound so wonderfully noisy and chaotic bouncing off the walls of the Davis Square joint. The riffage is inspired.
“I got pretty obsessed with the band Earth during the pandemic, and that led to an obsession with other doom metal,” says Baldi, “and then I started buying lots of fuzz pedals and downloading distortion plugins online — basically just anything that would blow out my guitar sound and get it sounding somewhere in the deep and fuzzed out ballpark of the heavy music I was listening to.”
He adds: “‘I’d Get Along’ is sort of a Cloud Nothings take on that sound, where the guitar is big and bulky but there’s a really poppy vocal melody on top, and the drums are bouncy and rolling around the other instruments in their own idiosyncratic way.”
Crank it up. Embrace the spring and all that comes with it.