Cloud Nothings - Life Without SoundCloud Nothings are back. The follow up to 2014's Here And Nowhere Else, Life Without Sound is a massive leap forward and statement in sound and song. For more than a year, Baldi was able to write these songs and flesh out them out with his bandmates drummer Jayson Gerycz and bassist TJ Duke before they finally joined producer John Goodmanson (Sleater Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Texas, for three weeks in March of 2016. The

Trash and No Star' from 1994 did away with the ear-bleeding guitar feedback so often attributed to the group

with his songs

All we really know comes from the abstractions assaulting our eardrums

a stunning collection of trance-like rhythms and beats traditionally used to induce spirit possession in the Vodou religion

We want people to remember things and smile

Marvin longed to make a statement that would reflect the new reality

like Ian Makaye's poignant piano ballad

John Moore realized he had a second album stashed away in his song drawer

Some songs were tributes

But the best is the last: "Street Spirit (Fade Out)

reverb-drenched keyboards

and the critical success of 2005's 'Lookaftering'