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Jan 23, 2017It’s a chugging, nimble-footed affair, showing a matured and restrained group; no more eight-minute-plus pounding, slashing jams, replaced instead with a sense of clarity and focus, a driving, raw sonic thesis statement.
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Alternative PressJan 6, 2017Life Without Sound is rife with memorable hooks and earworms--and the substance to make them meaningful. [Feb 2017, p.80]
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Jan 25, 2017While infested by hooks, yet Life Without Sound bears itself with moral clarity and resolve while rocking damn hard.
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Jan 27, 2017Life Without Sound is the next logical step in Cloud Nothings’ upward trajectory.
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Feb 1, 2017Cloud Nothings’ best work to date.
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Jan 27, 2017Life Without Sound feels more confident, the songs themselves coming from a more positive position.
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Jan 26, 2017Baldi has bulked up the band’s lo-fi production values for a more muscular sound while retaining the youthful energy of his songwriting.
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Jan 25, 2017This is their best work to date and the great thing is, you can tell they're still evolving and fleshing out which direction to head in. It feels like a state of limbo, but in the best way possible.
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Kerrang!Jan 25, 2017This album is polished indie-punk at its near best. [28 Jan 2017, p.52]
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Jan 17, 2017Life Without Sound is a triumph of Baldi’s vision--for something bigger than just hard and heavy punk, and for rock and roll with pop intelligence. He’s pulled off both here.
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UncutJan 6, 2017With his band's thrilling fourth album, Baldi successfully develops his own take on the merger of powerpop and hardcore brawn. [Feb 2017, p.24]
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Jan 26, 2017It seems as though Dylan Baldi has effectively evolved from a musical loner trying to go it alone to a mature frontman fully integrated in a strong and cohesive band. It seems as though Dylan Baldi has finally become a punk.
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Jan 27, 2017If you dig Baldi's work, this is as fine a collection as any in the Cloud Nothings discography.
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Jan 26, 2017By letting go of a little of their rage, Cloud Nothings let more light and shadow into Life Without Sound with promising results.
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Jan 26, 2017While Life Without Sound isn’t their strongest work, it’s got the seeds that could lead to their next definitive statement.
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Jan 23, 2017The band remain an excellent and vital act, still producing worthy music which is head and shoulders over many similar, lesser acts, the problem, it seems, is that their evolution is a slow one.
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Jan 23, 2017The two records are essentially similar in their mood and effect, and the snag with this album is that it follows the formula set by its predecessor uncomfortably closely.
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Jan 19, 2017By focusing less on inner tribulations and looking at the broader context of his place in the world, Baldi’s typical impulsivity and urgency of a frenzied youth transforms into the deliberateness of a wiser and more seasoned songwriter.
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Jan 19, 2017While they’ve ramped up the production values on this follow-up, its nine tracks retain the reckless zest for life that have defined their creators’ output.
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Feb 27, 2017It's a solid pop-rock album, but until they learn some new tricks, Cloud Nothings will just have to continue their search for whatever they're looking for.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 36
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Mixed: 10 out of 36
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Negative: 1 out of 36
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