![]() Elaborations like Last Building Burning’s 10-minute “ Dissolution” or even Attack on Memory’s eight-minute “ Wasted Days” are gone. Seven months after Baldi and Gerycz assembled The Black Hole Understands in isolation, Cloud Nothings have regained their full line-up but retained their penchant for rueful concision. Duke’s rhythms rumble and thrash, impatient and surly.Įxpect no left turns on The Shadow I Remember. His and guitarist Chris Brown’s six-string crosstalk keeps a dialogue open drummer Jayson Gerycz and bassist T.J. “Does anybody living out there really need me?” he howls in “Am I Something.” Opener “Oslo” wonders, “Am I at the end/Or will there be another change?” Baldi presents these verses as questions, not wisdom. Immune to self-pity or the cynicism that is a curdled form of sentimentality, singer-guitarist Dylan Baldi finds the world testing his patience- the mess is permanent, as a grim title on The Black Hole Understands notes. But what began as questioning has hardened into doubt. ![]() ![]() Thanks to engineer Steve Albini and their faith in a narrowing gyre of noise, Cloud Nothings could’ve released three-quarters of The Shadow I Remember at the peak of their early-2010s ubiquity.
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