A few short weeks ago, Cloud Nothings released a new album called Final Summer via Pure Noise, and without bothering to research what that title may suggest, we’re just gonna assume its another indicator of the inevitable oncoming societal collapse. So it’s probably a good excuse to leave home on a Monday night (May 6) and catch the enduring and tested Cleveland band as they play Crystal Ballroom in Somerville.
In March, fuzzed-out single “I’d Get Along” caught our attention, and like all the other classic Cloud Nothings tracks, the noisy guitar-rock jam should sound so wonderfully 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 Dylan 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.”
Dive in through a Davis Square portal this evening, and emrace our uncertain future.
CLOUD NOTHINGS + HURRY + ANTHONY PASQUAROSA / KRYSSI BATTALENE / JAYSON GERYCZ TRIO :: Monday, May 6 at Crystal Ballroom, 55 Davis Square in Somerville, MA :: 7:30 p.m., all ages, $30 :: Event page :: Advance tickets