Pitchfork Also Murders Cloud Cult (Plus Tour Kicks Off Tonight)
Download: Cloud Cult - "When Water Comes to Life"
Download: Cloud Cult - "The Tornado Lessons"
I think I've figured it out. Somehow, Minnesotan-based bands must have conspired to murder Ryan Schrieber's family in its entirety, and now he's seeking revenge through his website, the indie institution Pitchfork Media. After Minnesotans Tapes N Tapes got a 5.9 for their sophomore effort. But it would seem that the true carnage was being saved for fellow Minnesotans, the environmental collective Cloud Cult, who today received a 4.2 for their eight album, Feel Good Ghosts, released earlier this week.
Reviewer Ian Cohen says that "good intentions can only go so far and Feel Good Ghosts repeatedly fails to meet the listener halfway; Minowa hasn't run out of things to say, but he's having trouble coming up with new ways to say them, and Feel Good Ghosts unfortunately feels like another byproduct of Cloud Cult's recycling process."
Zing! Also, Ouch! For those of you who want to make up your own minds, head on over to Twin Cities where you can stream snippets of the entire record here.
In other Cloud Cult news, the band kicks off its tour behind its eighth release tonight in Madison, Wisconsin. Here are the dates (including two in Chicago!):
Apr 11 2008
8:00P
High Noon Saloon
Madison, Wisconsin
Apr 12 2008
8:00P
Radio Radio - w/ The Forms
Indianapolis, Indiana
Apr 13 2008
8:00P
Blind Pig w/ The Forms and Mason Proper
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Apr 14 2008
8:00P
El Mocambo
Toronto, Ontario
Apr 16 2008
8:00P
Middle East - Downstairs
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Apr 17 2008
8:00P
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, New York
Apr 18 2008
8:00P
The Bowery Ballroom
New York, New York
Apr 19 2008
8:00P
Rock and Roll Hotel
Washington DC
Apr 21 2008
8:00P
Local 506
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Apr 22 2008
8:00P
Smith’s Olde Bar w/ The Forms
Atlanta, Georgia
Apr 24 2008
8:00P
The Basement
Columbus, Ohio
Apr 25 2008
7:00P
Schuba’s Tavern
Chicago, Illinois
Apr 25 2008
10:00P
Schuba’s Tavern
Chicago, Illinois
Apr 26 2008
8:00P
First Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 6 2008
7:00P
The Elks Theater
Rapid City, South Dakota
May 7 2008
8:00P
Filling Station - w/ Kid Dakota
Bozeman, Montana
May 8 2008
8:00P
The Loft - w/ Kid Dakota
Missoula, Montana
May 9 2008
8:00P
Neumos
Seattle, Washington
May 10 2008
8:00P
Doug Fir Lounge
Portland, Oregon
May 13 2008
8:00P
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, California
May 14 2008
8:00P
Knitting Factory
Hollywood, California
May 16 2008
8:00P
Belly Up, Aspen - w/ Kid Dakota
Aspen, Colorado
May 17 2008
8:00P
Larimer Lounge
Denver, Colorado
May 18 2008
8:00P
Larimer Lounge
Denver, Colorado
May 19 2008
8:00P
Slowdown w/ Kid Dakota
Omaha, Nebraska
Feel Good Ghosts is out now and can be ordered through the band's website.
Cloud Cult MySpace Page
(Jonathan Graef)
posted by MPLSFR at 12:04 PM
6 Comments:
Fuck Pitchfork...If they aren't the ones to "discover" a band, they feel the need to rip them. I would bet if this was Cloud Cult's
1st CD and it was recorded in a shit hole apartment in Brooklyn, it would not be a 4.2.
I am not saying this is a magical album or that Cloud Cult are Minnesota version of the Arcade Fire, but c'mon, 4.2? That is an F-.
Same thing with CYHSY and TNT, did they really become medicore bands or are P-Fork rating on buzz and their own abilty to create disccusion (look, we make bands huge!) instead of the actual merits of the albums?
Jerks. Someone needs to knock them off of their high horse.
or maybe (maybe?) they just didn't like the album?
nope... they hold gripes like a 3 year old kid, it's sad
I dunno. As the hard ass on this blog, I'm often given the business for being too hard. Logically, on the PFork scale, a 5 is about average, so CC was less than average. The more I reflect on the TnT grade, the more I think it fairly reasonable, since the album was quite underwhelming to me, as well. There are some valid points in the CC review, and some points that I think were belabored too much.
Because of PF's stature, it's really tempting to take what they say as gospel. I hope that's something that gets moved past as blogs gain more ground (that being said, we shouldn't post about them so much...).
I was at Cloud Cult's show in Madison. They were fantastic! Really outstanding! I was blown away (and I'm not impressed easily).
I don't read Pitchfork. Never have, never will. I prefer independent publications, like MFR.
Fine if Pitchfork did not like the music-
The music comes from the heart, words are understandable and have meaning.
I have heard them at SXSW, Monolith, the Varsity, and will hear them in Omaha.
A class act and people with heart!
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