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Mar 28, 2014Twenty minutes of pedal-to-the-floor, tension-igniting rock ‘n’ roll can just be too much in most hands, but Here and Nowhere Else condenses these moments into more reasonable servings that are successful across the board.
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Jul 14, 2014Baldi's lyrics encapsulate those tenets just as well as the music he and his bandmates create.
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Apr 4, 2014Cloud Nothings might still be young and quite indebted to their 90’s influences, but their latest shows they’ve already mastered all the qualities of a truly great rock band and all of their contradictions: fury, angst, precision, sloppiness, catchiness and, of course, fun.
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Alternative PressMar 28, 2014Here And Nowhere Else is Cloud Nothings' best effort yet--and that's saying something. [May 2014, p.90]
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Mar 26, 2014As a careening, breakneck listen, this will be up there as one of the best of the year.
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Apr 1, 2014With Here And Nowhere Else, they’ve thrown the first punch, and it hits you square in the jaw.
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Mar 31, 2014Once again, though, Baldi is simply unwilling or unable to stop writing hook-filled songs, rendering Here and Nowhere Else even more tense and thrillingly conflicted than its predecessor.
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Mar 26, 2014Not for a long time have I listened to something that so delights in its lack of abandon; their name might be uninspiring, but Cloud Nothings’ output is clearly anything but.
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Jun 11, 2014The balance is the thing, and on Here and Nowhere Else, the balance is very, very good.
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Apr 10, 2014It's all part of the sizable growth demonstrated on Here and Nowhere Else, which more than anything is defined by the sound of raw energy giving way to coherence and control.
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Apr 9, 2014While Here And Nowhere Else is a noisy onslaught that rattles along at a cracking pace, there's a real sense of fun and catchy melodies that Billie Joe Armstrong would be proud of.
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Apr 2, 2014Here And Nowhere Else not only reaffirms Baldi as one of the most prolific and consistent songwriters of his generation--its hard to believe he's still only 22 considering the extent of his back catalogue--but also suggests there's much more to come in the future.
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Apr 1, 2014Call it sustainable punk--the kind that doesn't need to burn out or fade away.
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Apr 1, 2014There’s a sense of maturity and control present, without losing their trademark edge.
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Apr 1, 2014Baldi and Co. take the best bits from Albini's tutelage, apply them to lo-fi pop-punk structures and infuse all of it with tightly wound angst.
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Mar 31, 2014On the heels of a breakout, there’s no let down here and if the album doesn’t necessarily break new ground, it treads the ground of the the last record in more interesting ways, with a more confident stride.
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Mar 28, 2014Here and Nowhere Else is relentless in the best possible way.
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Mar 28, 2014Here and Nowhere Else is another heavy, catchy-as-hell Cloud Nothings record.
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Mar 27, 2014It's brash, ballsy and, above all, fun.
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Mar 26, 2014This is an impeccable record from an incredible songwriter.
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Mar 26, 2014Cloud Nothings, with teeth clenched tight and feedback flowing aplenty, rock a blue streak without letting a single moment go by hook-free.
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Apr 1, 2014Here and Nowhere Else’s disposition for self-examination coaxes out a superior depth and nuance when stacked against Cloud Nothings’ previous works.
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Apr 1, 2014Though Here And Nowhere Else gets stuck in one setting, it’s proving that Cloud Nothings’ peerless critical darling wasn’t the result of dumb luck.
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Apr 3, 2014It's markedly more frantic and reckless than the deliberate, measured anger and restraint of its predecessor.
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Apr 1, 2014Baldi's songs still bash and seethe, but with more flashy time-signature shifts, open space and studio trickiness.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 52 out of 57
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Mixed: 4 out of 57
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Negative: 1 out of 57
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