Yell At Cloud

Description

Over four years in the making, Yell At Cloud is the follow up to the PLOSIVS critically hailed debut (RollingStone.biz said “best new release of the week” in 2021). Recorded Dec. 2020 at No Fun Club studio in Winnipeg, Canada. Rob Crow, Atom Willard, Jordan Clark and John Reis relocated to Winnipeg and wrote and recorded at the No Fun compound while the the famous blizzard of ‘20 descended upon the city.  The massive Arctic event lead to power outages and the inability to leave the facility for a week. Using generators running on diesel and heat powered by sheep tallow, the band had to resort to using as little electricity as possible. Most of what you hear on Yell At Cloud was recorded in the dark or by candlelight in below freezing conditions. Finally the sessions became so intense the band members could no longer sustain focus to completion and decided to return home once the ice melted and finish the record at a later date. Months turned to years. There was such a massive emotional dust cloud kicked up during the recording of Yell At Cloud that it took 4 years for that cloud to settle. Finally, Ben Moore (who recorded and mixed the bands debut) stepped in and mixed Yell At Cloud. In order to a create seamless continuity with the original tracks, Ben mixed the majority of these files in the dark with the brightness of his screen turned to the lowest setting.

The result is a claustrophobic album that searches for an oasis within. From lurching dissonance to uplifting harmonic convergences Yell At Cloud is a stark, black and white departure from their debut.