Lo-Fi recordings seem to be the hip new things on the block. I guess there's a whole bunch of kids making music nowadays who've never even touched a cassette tape in their lives. This NAS writer used to own a Sony Walkman! Yes, that's how old I might be. But putting age aside, sometimes the lo-fi sound of a band in a basement on a cheap microphone work wonders. Cleveland's Cloud Nothings pretty much did that and have become interweb darlings because of it.
Dylan Baldi is the man who gave Clound Nothings their first breath of life. As mentioned, he recorded the band's first few tracks in his basement with just one cheap microphone. Hey Cool Kid was one of those first tracks, and it sounds like a basement affair. There's a certain charm to the track, but that charm can only take it so far. It would be more interesting to see how Cloud Nothing's sound progresses once they get into a professional recording studio. At some point they'll need to decide how lo-fi they want to sound. Still, they're a catchy little band nonetheless that have oodles of fuzzy charm to go around. Check out some happy tracks on their myspace.
[Clound Nothings on Myspace]
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