Cloud Cult

[Nachie]

I just wrote a convoluted essay about how much LSD I used to do, cleverly disguised as a review of my all-time favorite band, Cloud Cult:

http://theanvilreview.org/node/628

Some of you may be interested in it/the music itself. Cheers.

[Raúl Duke]

The first time I heard MGMT's "Time to Pretend" I was tripping. It was awesome because I felt like the band would understand and sympathized with the state of mind I was in.

Although perhaps not as hard as you were when you did LSD.

[Nachie]

boy howdy lemme tell ya, i was somewhere else.

MGMT is kinda neat (well, their first album anyway) but cloud cult is that NEXT LEVEL SHIT

[Widerstand]

I downloaded Cloudcult once in search for music similar to Animal Collective. Listened to Meaning of 8 once, can't say it made a big impression. They have some chill tracks though, I guess I should try listening to it high/drugged.


but holy shit, this review...

"How does one describe the indescribable? The difference between Cloud Cult and other acts is quite as noticeable as the divergence between a hand-held sparkler and a multimillion dollar fireworks display. Though I no longer use entheogens to augment my enjoyment of the experience, every hair on the back of my neck is still tuned to the subtleties of vibration; the shudders down my spine are involuntary. To make a statement that perhaps reaches far beyond even your suspended disbelief at my presuppositions so far, I’d like to tell you that Cloud Cult has achieved nothing less than the pan-dimensional holographic projection of narrative into the human consciousness."

and this one on Fever Ray:

"As I listen to the Fever Ray album I am reminded of the beauty and horror of post-modernism. As solitary musicians grab chunks of sound from every culture on the globe and transmogrify them into their own logic, into a dance-able paste of moaning and structured contentlessness, where digital steel drums, clicks and beeps replace rocks and sticks in our subconscious shared moment. I am frightened. This is not the same as what we have lost, of what has come before, but I relate to it."

At first I thought I was reading Pitchfork >_>

[Nachie]

Meaning of 8 is really good, but try Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus or Feel-Good Ghosts

Honestly I don't think I would like them very much if I hadn't been tripping when I first heard them but now I can listen to them endlessly, it's pretty weird.

[Raúl Duke]

Cloud Cult has come up in one or 2 of my Pandora Radio stations.