Cloud Nothings & Wavves
No Life For Me

THE REVIEW

What do two bored kids do apart from drinking, watching TV shows, and smoking weed? The answer is simple if these two suburban boys bear the likeness of Nathan Williams (the mind behind Wavves) and Dylan Baldi (the voice of Cloud Nothings).

The answer is called “No Life For Me” but don’t call it a side-project, rather call it youthful boredom. The fast-setting lava flow certifies a certain complementarity between the sound of the two bands: the surf-rock of the former and the noise-pop-punk of Baldi’s group.

And if there isn’t much left to say about Cloud Nothings, with their latest release “Nowhere Else” (2014) whose aura is still very much visible, having demonstrated the uselessness of certain fake post-grunge/alternative rock offerings, Wavves’ latest “V” is freshly released and deserves a referral elsewhere, although my initial positive impressions are undeniable.

“No Life For Me” flows smoothly and directly in its twenty-minute duration between the chaotic verve “Hard To Find,” spacey interludes “Untitled II,” sad beach lullabies and starry skies for guitars made in Baldi (“Nothing Hurts”), nearing perfection with “How It’s Gonna Go,” probably the perfect summary of the boredom and delusions of these two spirited young men on the edge between reflections of artificial light and claustrophobic tunnels.

The warm oven bread is here, take a piece, break it and share it with your friends.
Welcome to the boredom of the young and not-so-young, the depressed and the blissed-out, the angry and the life-loving.