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Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

It’s been a while since I’ve actually posted what I have been listening to lately. I got an advance copy of the this album—which is expected to be released next week (January 24, 2012—and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

The album is much more aggressive compared to their 2011 release Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings. I would have posted the second track from this album, but it is much too long for Tumblr to handle. So, this track will have to do.

Dylan Baldi started Cloud Nothings as a way to amuse himself between classes at Case Western Reserve University in 2009.^[4]

The first batch of Cloud Nothings songs, including the blogosphere favorite “Hey Cool Kid” (available on the 2010 compilation “Turning On”), was recorded on a computer in the basement of Baldi’s home in Westlake, OH.

A concert promoter who invited Cloud Nothings to play a gig in New York City in December 2009 prompted Baldi to hastily assemble a real band and drop out of college to focus on his music full-time.

Baldi recorded the second Cloud Nothings album (2010’s Self Titled) in Baltimore with producer Chester Gwazda.^[5]

The Cloud Nothings third album, Attack On Memory, is due to release in 2012.^[6

Source: Wikipedia

If you haven’t done so already “Like” their Facebook page and don’t forget to buy a copy of this album when it comes.

The music video below, which I wasn’t aware even existed until tonight, is from their second major release and favourite of mine:

Mos Def, who is still insisting that we all call him Yasiin Bey now, is launching a new project called Top 40 Underdog, in which he’ll remake and tweak some big radio hits. In the first entry, he takes on “Niggas In Paris,” the great and world-conquering smash from his more-famous buddies Kanye West and Jay-Z. Yasiin’s version is a freaked-out rant, but it’s not really a freestyle; it’s more a straight-up parody that tweaks the original into a broke-folks manifesto of sorts. And, of course, he’s given it the truly awkward title “Niggas In Poorest.” Listen below.

SOURCE: Stereogum