Cloud Room

The Cloud Room | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 19, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gigantic
• ASIN: B0007ZSHBW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,772 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The Tripwire.com

"[Hey Now Now] a song destined to be the summer hit that is on everyone’s iPod..."

"...quirky and dreamy and sounds familiar enough that it feels like an old friend..."

Product Description

The swagger of Gainsbourg, the pulse and melancholy of New Order, a voice that sounds like Peter Murphy trying to sing like David Bowie, The Cloud Room is a young Brooklyn based band striving to write songs that will go toe to toe with your record collection, toe to toe with your heart and toe to toe with your hips.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Debut Album, April 19, 2005

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Steve Teller (Washington, D.C. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cloud Room (Audio CD)

Through the thick cloud of hype surrounding newcomers like Bloc Party and The Bravery, The Cloud Room has quietly entered the fray with a stunningly unique, thoughtful, timeless first album.

Like most people, I first heard of them from a few of their demos floating around the internet that piqued my interest. The best of those, "Hey Now Now", opens the album. This is one of those immense songs like "Losing My Religion" or "Bittersweet Symphony" that seem like they were always meant to be. The singer sounds like Lou Reed mixed with a little David Bowie. The band sounds like a combination of Pulp, The Shins and Joy Division. And the chorus is just about the catchiest anthemic thing I've heard. This song is breathtaking!

From there the album spreads out and deepens as it progresses through "Waterfall" (like Devendra Banhart with a disco bassline), the shouty "Blackout" (new wave, Strokes, The Fall), "Devoured In Peace" (Queen is Dead-era Smiths/Built to Spill), the spare, heartbreaking "Sunlight Song" (kind of like "Exit Music" or "Julia").

The second half of the album is weaker than the first, but has another couple of my favorites, "Oh My Love" (very Lennon, but not the Lennon song) and the album closer "We Sleep In The Ocean". It slowly shifts from a Lou Reed "Walk On The Wild Side" doo-doo-doo verse to a U2/Echo And The Bunnymen chorus and comes to a magnificent shimmering end.

There are moments where the lyrics get a little pretentious, and it would have been nice to have a full albums-worth of great songs, but these guys have come very very very close to a classic.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An odd, captivating album, September 10, 2005

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James Simon (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cloud Room (Audio CD)

The main gripe about this album is it clocks in at a mere 33 minutes. Maybe it's a case of quantity versus quality. Aside from that, this is Brooklyn, NY band that shares common threads from Talking Heads to Radiohead. Most of the songs are one verse and one chorus long. Yet it's presentedwith a mix of sounds that half the time sounds like Secret Machines (also from Brooklyn which makes one wonder a bit) with a little bit of the Strokes for good measure. Also recommended for those like me who think Arcade Fire is overblown. This album is for you.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Cloud Room, September 22, 2009

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Vivian Taylor - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cloud Room (Audio CD)

Really loved the "hey now now" track when I heard it on a movie soundtrack; it reminded me of Bowie without sounding like emulation. The whole CD is good. I recommend it. The seller was quick to turnaround and the CD was in excellent shape as promised.