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Nothing is on purpose.
HeresBaldi on six crucial Cloud Nothings tracks.
He was mostly looking for a way out of the malaise of whatever a normal life might bring.
I was taking it a little more seriously than I should have.
Even the sound quality of these songs, they sound horrible, but they were cool.
The same blistering snark is of a piece with the Cloud Nothings who would eventually …cover Coldplays Clocks.
I think its just … And I was staying on a couch of some dude I didnt know at all, he says.
In Baltimore, he was paired with producer Chester Gwazda, whod previously worked with Dan Deacon.
I dont think a whole lot about this record.
I was like This one sucks, you cant put this one out first.
Then everyone else was like, No you should, I think people will like this one.
Turns out, everyone else was right.
What made the other records so cohesive is we were just together all the time.
There was barely any time where we werent thinking about these songs or talking about music, he says.
This one, that slowed down so rapidly that I almost forgot what the band sounded like.
An outside-the-box pairing, but of a piece with Baldis recurring musical interests.
