Cloud Nothings  |  ”Wasted Days”  |  Attack On Memory

If I heard this song when I was 14, I think my brain would have melted. Those drums! Holy shit, the drums. I’ve nearly bruised my thumbs trying to tap along.

I have to say, this new Cloud Nothings record turned out much, much better than I expected. As I mentioned previously, I was less than thrilled with lead single “No Future/No Past,” but luckily, that has turned out to be my least favorite track on the album by a long shot. Attack On Memory is certainly way more aggressive than the band’s previous output, as this nine(!) minute track illustrates. But even though it’s bigger and angrier (not to mention significantly higher-fi), it’s still clearly the same band playing (almost) the same hooks. They’re just bigger and angrier hooks.

So a record that I was actually fearing turned out to be something great: it makes me feel like a pissed off 14 year old again.