• Record Label: Kranky
  • Release Date: Oct 20, 2009
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Impressively impressionistic, New Clouds is a rare mix of restful and engaging, and a significant step forward for Forkner.
  2. New Clouds is as good a record as any to soundtrack disconnection from deep thought.
  3. Mojo
    80
    New Clouds is poised between towering psych-noise and ambient beauty, intermittently etched with quicksilver. [Nov 2009, p.101]
  4. If you're able to view it through that lens, then New Clouds has much to offer as an unscripted, decidedly un-pop kind of album: mood music and drug music, yes, but more than that, the uncompromising work of a dude making sounds strictly on his own terms.
  5. Its a synthesis of all of Forknerā€™s previous experiments, refined and expanded for the big screen.
  6. This robot-induced hypnosis leads less to genuine enlightenment than it does to pointless New Age dehydration.
  7. Uncut
    60
    New Clouds is at once both denser and groovier. [Nov 2009, p.113]
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. ROgerD.
    Jan 20, 2010
    10
    Love this record!!!