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:

Currently Listening To

This album has been on heavy rotation the moment it came out. This song, more specifically, is absolutely fantastic.

The Roots - Undun

This off Thievery Corporation’s sixth studio album Culture of Fear.

A little description of the group if you’re not aware of them:

Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D.C.’s Eighteenth Street Lounge. Rob Garza and Lounge co-owner Eric Hilton were drawn together over their mutual love of club life, as well as dub, bossa nova and jazzrecords. They decided to see what would come of mixing all these in a recording studio, and from this, the duo started theirEighteenth Street Lounge Music record label.

The duo drew attention with their first two 12” offerings, “Shaolin Satellite” and “2001: a Spliff Odyssey” and with their 1997 debut LP, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi.

This group has never disappointed me and is very rare for a group this old—in this genre—to still be around.

feastingonroadkill:

Boys and Girls, 60’s Texan Punk for your Saturday Groovin’ pleasure.

Circus: ‘Bad Seed’

Freakout Hammond organ sound!

Massive Attack’s Safe From Harm off their Blue Lines album

Tupac w/ Method Man & Redman - All Eyez On Me - I Got My Mind Made Up

I’m reliving my days back in ‘93-‘94. 

This is a great song.

This is one of those albums where one listen just won’t do it. This album along with their last album, Two Dancers, has been on heavy rotation for the last week or so.