14.10.10
SLUG magazine CC-Fin Eaves review
Cloudland Canyon-Fin Eaves (Holy Mountain)
Cloudland Canyon = Women + Stag Hare + Caboladies
Cloudland Canyon make finding an accessible entrance point into their latest sprawling drone-pop opus a difficult task. Choosing to bury harmonized Beach Boys sub-melodies and pop song structures well below a landslide of analog tape hiss and hazy, reverb-drenched guitar drones, Cloudland Canyon make you work for it. Your patience is rewarded, however, by an absolutely stunning B-side on Fin Eaves. The four-song stretch, starting with “Mothlight pt.2” and ending with “Yellow Echoez,” bring the fully formed pop songs they hid a mile underneath the fuzzed-out audio bath of guitar drones to the surface, still dripping in the shimmering aural warmness that makes the A-side of this magnificent and addicting album. –Ryan Hall
13.10.10
November Tour Dates
Cloudland Canyon supporting Bear in Heaven
Nov 13 @ Spanish Moon
Baton Rouge, LA
Nov 14 @ The Earl
Atlanta, GA
Nov 15 @ Guilford College
Greensboro, NC
Nov 13 @ Spanish Moon
Baton Rouge, LA
Nov 14 @ The Earl
Atlanta, GA
Nov 15 @ Guilford College
Greensboro, NC
22.9.10
CC-FIN EAVES IS RECORD OF THE WEEK AT AQUARIUS!!!
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CLOUDLAND CANYON Fin Eaves (Holy Mountain) cd 13.98
Cloudland Canyon always seemed like some impossible classic krautrock / noise rock hybrid, their records equal parts German Oak, Faust, Amon Duul, My Bloody Valentine and the Dead C, a washed out sonic world of gritty hypnotic haze, of lumbering psychedelic grooves, of twisted FX drenched drift and looped druggy ambience, as likely to explode into a super rocking fuzzed out dronejam as they were to emit thick billowing clouds of swirling blurred psychdrone shimmer, but always, at the core of their sound was pop. Little hooks buried in the murk and the mire, catchiness subtly woven into the fabric of every bit of spaced out crush or raga-like skree, the thread that held their sound together was spun from melody and harmony, no matter how much those elemental forces were obscured.
Recently CC shared a split with Citay, both bands paying homage to fuzzy dream poppers Galaxie 500, CC's version was especially fantastic, drugged out and hypnotic, somehow transforming the original into what could have been a proper Cloudland Canyon jam, and in the process, revealing, more explicitly than ever, the warm glowing pop heart, that beat inside the buzzing, lysergic krautrock chest of Cloudland Canyon. Which it seems, lead to this, Fin Eaves, a fully realized exploration of pop music, filtered through CC's gloriously cracked kraut/drone/noise filter, the result, one of the fuzziest, most washed out, dreamiest noise pop / dream pop records in recent memory.
Every track a swirling morass of druggy effects, of muted melodies, of buried reverbed vox, of subverted jangle, muddy grooves, subtle hooks, a soft focus collision between My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Filmstars and Galaxie 500, a three way pileup where the various elements simply sink into one another, blurring and smearing into fantastically new shapes, a little bit of looped hypnotic Spacemen 3 style drug rock here, a little super distorted minimal Jesus and Mary Chain stomp there, slipping seamlessly from gauzy soft pop shuffle, to dense crumbling popnoise damage, to hushed loping slowcore haze, to soaring prismatic space psych bliss, each and every track is dense and spacious and layered, the various sounds constantly shifting, transforming, pealing melodies sloughing off only to reveal even more subtle melodies beneath, streaks of electronic glitch and clouds of warm whirling hiss drift amidst deep thrummed bass, and simple motorik rhythms, gorgeously out of focus vocal harmonies, and all manner of texture and timbre, a rare record as much about song as sound, strip away the sound, and you'd have a surprisingly perfect pop record, take away the songs, and you'd still have some fantastically abstract sonic earcandy, but combine the two, and you have this, an utterly gorgeous disc of otherworldly noise drenched lysergic dream pop. Fans of Teenage Filmstars, Beach House, Jesus & Mary Chain, Flaming Lips, Galaxie 500, Spacemen 3, Candy Claws, Mercury Rev, School Of The Seven Bells, and other psychedelic dream poppers, this is your new favorite record.
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CLOUDLAND CANYON Fin Eaves (Holy Mountain) cd 13.98
Cloudland Canyon always seemed like some impossible classic krautrock / noise rock hybrid, their records equal parts German Oak, Faust, Amon Duul, My Bloody Valentine and the Dead C, a washed out sonic world of gritty hypnotic haze, of lumbering psychedelic grooves, of twisted FX drenched drift and looped druggy ambience, as likely to explode into a super rocking fuzzed out dronejam as they were to emit thick billowing clouds of swirling blurred psychdrone shimmer, but always, at the core of their sound was pop. Little hooks buried in the murk and the mire, catchiness subtly woven into the fabric of every bit of spaced out crush or raga-like skree, the thread that held their sound together was spun from melody and harmony, no matter how much those elemental forces were obscured.
Recently CC shared a split with Citay, both bands paying homage to fuzzy dream poppers Galaxie 500, CC's version was especially fantastic, drugged out and hypnotic, somehow transforming the original into what could have been a proper Cloudland Canyon jam, and in the process, revealing, more explicitly than ever, the warm glowing pop heart, that beat inside the buzzing, lysergic krautrock chest of Cloudland Canyon. Which it seems, lead to this, Fin Eaves, a fully realized exploration of pop music, filtered through CC's gloriously cracked kraut/drone/noise filter, the result, one of the fuzziest, most washed out, dreamiest noise pop / dream pop records in recent memory.
Every track a swirling morass of druggy effects, of muted melodies, of buried reverbed vox, of subverted jangle, muddy grooves, subtle hooks, a soft focus collision between My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Filmstars and Galaxie 500, a three way pileup where the various elements simply sink into one another, blurring and smearing into fantastically new shapes, a little bit of looped hypnotic Spacemen 3 style drug rock here, a little super distorted minimal Jesus and Mary Chain stomp there, slipping seamlessly from gauzy soft pop shuffle, to dense crumbling popnoise damage, to hushed loping slowcore haze, to soaring prismatic space psych bliss, each and every track is dense and spacious and layered, the various sounds constantly shifting, transforming, pealing melodies sloughing off only to reveal even more subtle melodies beneath, streaks of electronic glitch and clouds of warm whirling hiss drift amidst deep thrummed bass, and simple motorik rhythms, gorgeously out of focus vocal harmonies, and all manner of texture and timbre, a rare record as much about song as sound, strip away the sound, and you'd have a surprisingly perfect pop record, take away the songs, and you'd still have some fantastically abstract sonic earcandy, but combine the two, and you have this, an utterly gorgeous disc of otherworldly noise drenched lysergic dream pop. Fans of Teenage Filmstars, Beach House, Jesus & Mary Chain, Flaming Lips, Galaxie 500, Spacemen 3, Candy Claws, Mercury Rev, School Of The Seven Bells, and other psychedelic dream poppers, this is your new favorite record.
25.8.10
Cloudland Canyon Live!
Cloudland Canyon will be playing several shows in NYC, Chicago, and elsewhere in mid-September to promote the September 7th release of Fin Eaves, with a more extensive tour hopefully following later in the year.
So far, Cloudland will be playing the following dates:
Aug 28, Nashville
@ Open Lot
w/ ttotals (record release!), Black Static, and Sparkling Wide Pressure
September 9, Raleigh, NC
Hopscotch festival
Sept 10, Brooklyn
Music Hall of Williamsburg, opening for Interpol
Sept 12, Chicago
The Wire: AIMM festival @ The Empty Bottle
w/ CAVE, Mick Barr, Helen Money
Sept 15, Brooklyn
venue TBA
w/ Lichens
Sept 16, Brooklyn
@ Union Pool
w/ La Otracina, Mondo Drag, The Main Street Gospel
Sept 17, Brooklyn
in-store performance at Permanent Records
7:00 pm
Sept 18, Knoxville
@ The Pilot Light
w/ Mountains of Moss
So far, Cloudland will be playing the following dates:
Aug 28, Nashville
@ Open Lot
w/ ttotals (record release!), Black Static, and Sparkling Wide Pressure
September 9, Raleigh, NC
Hopscotch festival
Sept 10, Brooklyn
Music Hall of Williamsburg, opening for Interpol
Sept 12, Chicago
The Wire: AIMM festival @ The Empty Bottle
w/ CAVE, Mick Barr, Helen Money
Sept 15, Brooklyn
venue TBA
w/ Lichens
Sept 16, Brooklyn
@ Union Pool
w/ La Otracina, Mondo Drag, The Main Street Gospel
Sept 17, Brooklyn
in-store performance at Permanent Records
7:00 pm
Sept 18, Knoxville
@ The Pilot Light
w/ Mountains of Moss
30.7.10
NOW FOR SALE; CITAY/ CLOUDLAND CANYON 7" $8
So we have a handfull of the Citay/ Cloudland Canyon split left. This won't be around much longer
as most of them were gone in the first week. Limited to 300 copies. will not be repressed.both bands covering Galaxie 500. check it out
So we have a handfull of the Citay/ Cloudland Canyon split left. This won't be around much longer
as most of them were gone in the first week. Limited to 300 copies. will not be repressed.both bands covering Galaxie 500. check it out
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18.7.10
STEREOGUM releases Mothlight pt. 2
Mothlight pt. 2 by cloudland canyon
Kip Uhlhorn used to play guitar in Panthers. Before that he sang and played guitar in Red Scare. In September his psychedelic drone project Cloudland Canyon — currently Uhlhorn, his wife Kelly Winkler, and a revolving cast of players — is releasing Fin Eaves. The band formed in 2002 and it’s the third full-length since 2005, so people likely don’t need to be reminded of past musical identities — I just like keeping track of ex-hardcore dudes currently experimenting with electronics, spaciousness, dance floors, synthesizers, and/or the Siltbreeze sections of their early ’90s record collections. There are tons. It’s nice when they succeed. Uhlhorn has: Fin Eaves is definitely Cloudland Canyon’s most successful outing to date. I don’t usually like quoting one-sheets, but whoever wrote the one for Fin Eaves got the sound right: “Imagine, if you will, a Flying Saucer Attack foundation and a level of noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybe even Jesu every now and then.” You may also want to toss early Lilys into the mix. (Or sometime Cloudland collaborator, Rob Lowe, aka Lichens, aka a onetime post-hardcore guy.) Get started with the propulsive, Kraut-stepping “Mothlight Pt. 2.”
Fin Eaves is out 9/7 via Holy Mountain.
29.6.10
Cloudland Canyon Unveil Cover Art For Fin Eaves
LP Out On Holy Mountain Records On September 7th
Pop Matters
"A vastly diverse brew of spacey folk and primitivist psychedelia produced in a charmingly lo-fi style".
Tiny Mix Tapes
"Cloudland Canyon are seeking to elevate their work above simple homage and build to a career climax that will leave us all stunned in its wake".
"This combination of the futurism of Krautrock and the mesmerizing beauty of the Mississippi Delta forms an enveloping, gorgeous album that allows listeners to bask in pure golden sound with a clear vision of what the future holds. " - Daily Texan
"With the familiar swirl of psych guitars, spaced-out synths and repetitive motorik rhythms, Cloudland Canyon wear their influences on their sleeves with Lie in Light..." Exclaim
http://www.myspace.com/cloudlandcanyon
For Press Contact Grace Jones - grace@tellallyourfriendspr.com
LP Out On Holy Mountain Records On September 7th
Pop Matters
"A vastly diverse brew of spacey folk and primitivist psychedelia produced in a charmingly lo-fi style".
Tiny Mix Tapes
"Cloudland Canyon are seeking to elevate their work above simple homage and build to a career climax that will leave us all stunned in its wake".
"This combination of the futurism of Krautrock and the mesmerizing beauty of the Mississippi Delta forms an enveloping, gorgeous album that allows listeners to bask in pure golden sound with a clear vision of what the future holds. " - Daily Texan
"With the familiar swirl of psych guitars, spaced-out synths and repetitive motorik rhythms, Cloudland Canyon wear their influences on their sleeves with Lie in Light..." Exclaim
A riddle for our times: When exactly did it become “bad” or “cause for dismissal” when a band releases a record that explores a style disparate from what preceded it? Coming out of the gate in the early part of this decade as an all-things-not-Panthers outlet for Kip Uhlhorn, that band’s guitarist (and former guitarist/vocalist for those legends of deregulated late-90’s hardcore, Red Scare), for swapping musical ideas with a German named Simon Wojan (of King Khan and his Shrines), Cloudland Canyon spent several years immersed in an enigmatic interpretation of the many things these two minds found fascinating, including but not limited to the more structurally-challenged (therefore specialized) examples of OG Krautrock, 70’s (not really 60’s) psych of the drone-discovering variety, spots of unnerving (in a good way) improv here and there, and the wonderful 90’s bands that started out as head-scratchers and ended up as innovators (first-wave Siltbreeze and Kranky highlights). Kip issued a parting wave to Panthers, an LP/CD was released on Tee Pee in 2006, and it was titled “Requiems der Natur.” Then a succession of EP’s and splits most of which have been released by Holy Mountain since 2007. Then, in 2007 Cloudland popped up on Kranky Records (Deerhunter, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Growing etc.) Kranky was a good fit for the final sounds of Cloudland Phase I, issuing the EP “Silver-Tongued Sysiphus,” two lengthy tracks of all that stuff mentioned up there…and more. The second proper full length named "Lie in Light," found Kip and Simon creating an album of Cloudland’s most succinct compositions to date, there’s even some drone-pop with an emphasis on the “pop” part of that stupid term. They kicked it off with a track spoofing the Krautrock influence that most music writers’ used as a review hook, or simply overstated and misunderstood. They titled it “Krautwerk” for fucks sake. To initiate Cloudland Canyon Phase II, the inaugural album (but third full-length overall) revisits the “actual-band” treatment, but mostly in theory. Joined once again by Kelly and what is more-or-less a rotating cast (when needed), Kip has made an album that is immediately recognizable by a unique take on really, really goddamned loud and noisy. But if that was it…why would we be here? The most important quality - one hinted at on Lie in Light – is big, unavoidable pop hooks clawing their way out of a pulsating, throbbing thickness of guitar, bass, who-knows-what-type-of-effects, and understated but omnipresent drumming. Imagine, if you will, a Flying Saucer Attack foundation and a level of noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybe even Jesu every now and then. Then imagine flowing vocals-as-another-instrument providing one of the major pop-hook components for each song, mixed at a level that couldn’t be more perfect in this era of vocals getting mixed right up front and in your face. The opening track, No One else Around, is almost disorienting with its swirling hurt-so-good seasickness of prickly, ruling noise, then the wildly-effected vocals ease the pleasurable pain without effort. Mothlight is the song that the entire Siltbreeze discography has been working towards for four-hundred years. Put simply, the influences are there, but they are great influences, and to shun influence is to walk a dishonest walk. Cloudland Canyon have reached a new creative level with their own sound that demonstrates a care and craft that won’t be going away anytime soon. Fin Eaves will be released on Holy Mountain records September 7th. Cloudland Canyon has previously toured with Lichens, Singer, Earthless, No Age, White Rainbow, Valet and on and on. The band will embark on an extensive US tour this Summer. |
http://www.myspace.com/cloudlandcanyon
For Press Contact Grace Jones - grace@tellallyourfriendspr.com
18.6.10
First 7" Scores a GOAL!
So, the Cloudland Canyon/Citay split 7" (IA#1) has lumbered out of the woods and is ready for your consumption. There was a little delay with the art (looks sorta Gravity style, a happy accident) and everything, but is now available for your turntables. The record is LOUD and sounds great. This release is meant to be heard on vinyl, people.
So aside from the new 7" what has been keeping us occupied, you ask? What's on the turntable? Here is June's playlist:
World Cup Soccer-It only happens every four years. Get on it!
The Alps-Holy Smokes, their records are good, good, good. In fact, maybe you should check out everything on Root Strata.
Beaches-Their debut record is super great! What if Electralane were from Australia? Listen to Beaches and find out. I met these fine ladies when they didn't play a show in NYC (it was cancelled, boo!) and they were very charming.
Earles & Jensen-The Chris Morris(es) of the United States? Everything they do is magical and funny.
Stay perched for IA#2.
So aside from the new 7" what has been keeping us occupied, you ask? What's on the turntable? Here is June's playlist:
World Cup Soccer-It only happens every four years. Get on it!
The Alps-Holy Smokes, their records are good, good, good. In fact, maybe you should check out everything on Root Strata.
Beaches-Their debut record is super great! What if Electralane were from Australia? Listen to Beaches and find out. I met these fine ladies when they didn't play a show in NYC (it was cancelled, boo!) and they were very charming.
Earles & Jensen-The Chris Morris(es) of the United States? Everything they do is magical and funny.
Stay perched for IA#2.
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