Last year Cloud Nothings released their latest acclaimed album, ‘Final Summer’, which garnered attention from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Paste, BrooklynVegan, Uproxx, FLOOD Magazine, and more. Now the band are digging back into the vaults to re-release two rare albums that may have been overlooked during their 15 year streak of unimpeachably fantastic music.
‘The Black Hole Understands’ and ‘Life Is Only One Event’ were first released in 2020 as Bandcamp-only products of pandemic-era necessity, but now for the first time ever the records are arriving on streaming services and vinyl via Pure Noise Records, finally taking their place as essential releases in the Cloud Nothings catalog.
Vocalist/guitarist Dylan Baldi looked back on the albums, saying: “When these albums came out 5 years ago the world was in a pretty intense place, and when the idea of reissuing these albums initially came up I was averse to it. They felt like the product of a pandemic-influenced way of working and thinking, and it seemed okay to leave them exclusively available on Bandcamp. But listening back to them, they had a more hopeful sound than I remember, and a light and airy style that feels very singular amongst our records. The lyrics that I thought were deeply rooted in early Covid fear were actually much more universal and compelling than I realized. It feels right to give these songs a wider release on streaming so more people can hear them divorced from the context of the world at the time. The albums stand up on their own as interesting records and should be fun to listen to for newer fans, and especially so to anyone who has been following our musical trajectory from the beginning.”