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Like some latter-day Captain Beefheart kidnapping his band to force them to knock out Trout Mask Replica, Cloud dragged the ever-changing Gospel Of Power band, Matt Swanson (also of Lambchop) Ben Martin (Clem Snide) and Matt Back across the Atlantic to record Fever at Fire Records Stoke Newington studio. But where the notorious Captain turned his musicians into fanatical cadavres, the ever amenable Cloud has created another record of fractured garage and garrulous lo-fi, bizarre character studies and paeans to ladies and love.
Just as on his Fire Records debut, the compilation Napoleon of Temperance and last album, Pleasure Before Business, Cloud once again roughs up the Nashville tradition. Youre as likely to hear him collaborating with a Norwegian folk group to knock out a dishevelled version of sea shanty What Should We Do With A Drunken Sailor as paying reverential homage to the sound of his home city. But thats what this personable old cove is all about: hazy round the edges, always on hand with a sly wink. So the title track takes the melody of the song that Peggy Lee made famous for a late night drink in a seedy bar where it never really wanted to go, while The Citadel even out-swaggersnsleazes the The Rolling Stones original.
Over the murky atmosphere and hungover Spanish guitar of Surfer Joe, Cloud ponders the price of lobster, cats and ponies, and pronounces Mexico like a drunken sheep. South of the border yeaaaoooww, south of the border yeaaaoow he growls. In The Distance has Cloud in full spoken word flow over echoes of rolling piano, a tale of a man who put his battered bugle to his lips... and played the only love song she had ever heard him sing in honour of a girl with magnetic brown eyes... made as a perfect sculpture. Its a surprising end to Clouds peculiar journey, but youd be a fool not to join him on it.

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released August 10, 2009

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Dave Cloud Nashville, Tennessee

Cloud's seminal 1999 release 'Songs I Will Always Sing' received critical accolades, with reviews from as far away as Paris and Auckland. As Edwin Pouncey of The Wire magazine noted, "he sounds more like a cross between acid-addled Roky Erickson and boozed Beat writer, the late Charles Bukowski, than Steve Earle or Willie Nelson." ... more

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