Pure Noise (2024)
Would you believe that this is the seventh Cloud Nothings full length album I've written about for this website in the last ten years? That seems kind of crazy and it made me think about this band for a while before writing this. When I really put my mind to it and try to recall the prior six records, I can't. And I realize that while every single one of them is a good record, inevitably I listen to each record for a month or two when it first comes out and then it gets filed away on the shelf and not listened to again. The only one that I go back to repeatedly is Here and Nowhere Else. I love that record and still play it a few times a year guaranteed. The rest? I'm not sure I've listened to any of them other than the year I first got them.
And that sort of sums up my feelings about the new Cloud Nothings album Final Summer. It's a good record, with good songs - sure to please anyone that likes Cloud Nothings prior records. And I like it, genuinely. At the same time, it's kind of unremarkable. I wouldn't say it's boring, necessarily, but there isn't any song on here that makes me sit up, take notice and say "this is great." It's kind of the definition of a solid record. It does what it's supposed to, but nothing more. It fades into the background very easily and isn't the sort of thing that makes you want to keep going back to it.
The main reason I've listened to this album as many times as I have, is just so I could write about it. Without that to do, I don't know that I would have been motivated to spin it more than a time or two. Again, it's a good record. If you like the other Cloud Nothings albums, you'll like this one. But if you have other Cloud Nothings records, I'm not really sure you need this one. The others get the same job done and none of them can really hold up to Here and Nowhere Else for me.
Cloud Nothings – Final Summer
https://cloudnothings.bandcamp.com/track/final-summer
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