Cloud Nothings’ highly anticipated new album, ‘Final Summer,’ is due out in just a couple of weeks, and today Cleveland’s loudest export are sharing one more early single, ‘Silence’. Due out April 19th from Pure Noise Records, ‘Final Summer’ continues the band’s nearly 15-year streak of unimpeachably fantastic guitar rock albums. It’s a record that’s so assured, so instantly satisfying, that it forces you to pause and realize you’re listening to one of the great American rock bands in their prime.
‘Silence’ follows earlier singles ‘Final Summer’ and ‘Running Through The Campus’ and ‘I’d Get Along’ offers a feast for fans of all things fuzz. The charged-up single is equal parts inventive riffing and immediate hooks, blending earthshaking guitar tones with vocalist/guitarist Dylan Baldi’s seemingly effortless knack for melody.
Baldi discussed the new song, saying: “I wrote this song after reading that Samuel Alito’s Roe v. Wade opinion tried to justify banning abortion with quotes from a guy who literally burned women at the stake for being ‘witches’ in the 1600s. Like, how stupid do you have to be to think that a guy like that has said anything worth listening to at all? It’s wild that you can be a Supreme Court justice and also be an idiot. So I made ‘Silence’ about how sometimes you feel powerless watching bad people run the world, but that hopefully in the end you can find a way to live by decent values in whatever place you’re in.”