Attack On Memory - Cloud Nothings
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  • Summary: The second album for Cleveland's Cloud Nothings was produced by Steve Albini.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 33
  2. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Congrats to Baldi for getting one right.
  2. Jan 24, 2012
    91
    With Attack On Memory, he's gotten closer to the big rock sounds in his head.
  3. Jan 24, 2012
    60
    Here, Cloud Nothings move past the slacker touches that marked their first releases, their gestures getting bigger and broader as they make attempts at emotional universality.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. The first song on this album blew me away. Then I heard the second track and was even more impressed. Fortunately the album doesn't falter much at all after that. These guys have some kind of energy and you can tell on every track. I heard the frontman is basically a teenager but I actually related pretty well to the lyrics. They do have kind of a throwback 90's sound and they most remind me of the Replacements. This is my favorite of the year so far and I already bought my ticket to see them live this weekend! Expand
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  2. Not breaking any new ground here, but this band is alive. They put all their effort into these songs and it shows. Guitar rock isn't dead yet; Cloud Nothings beat every once of rock they can out of their instruments and the end result is a great soundtrack to the stressful vibrancy of 2012. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. 5
    Seems like they are trying to revive the punk sound of the Ramones or the Sex Pistols or even Nirvana with none of the urgency exhibited by those bands. Expand
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