★★★★★
"This is a song that is totally new to our live set...all these guys got together... last week and gathered around the Christmas tree and this is one of the songs we pounded out to figure out the live arrangement of it." It's an easy image to conjure up. The members of folk-rockers Cloud Cult, tucked inside as snow comes down and instruments ring out. The chiming backgrounds and smooth harmonies are becoming to the cozy setting...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
You know what's a total fucking blast? Pretending you're still 17 and jumping around like an idiot at a live show with your high school friends. That is, until about 3 seconds after the last song, which is precisely when your body completely falls apart, one limb after another, failing on you. That was me a few weeks ago. I still get down with nostalgia inspired music like New Found Glory from time to time. That's right, I said it. New. Found. Glory...
- www.syffal.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Earthology Cloud Cult are back with more of their own beautiful brand of experimental, orchestral indie-pop on their ninth studio album Love. The socially-conscious and D.I.Y. collective released this 13-song record on their own Earthology label and amplify their rock band aesthetic with violin, trumpet, cello, trombone and French horn, along with two painters echoing their performances live onstage...
- www.relix.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The Minneapolis-based indie art rock group Cloud Cult has nothing in common with British hard rock veterans the Cult, aside from the similarity in names and the fact that both bands now have an album called Love in their respective discographies. Instead, Cloud Cult, which is led by Craig Minowa, does things a bit differently...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-03-11
★★★★★
If you've ever been blessed to find yourself enveloped in the would-be joy of the Upper Midwest, you will immediately sense the region's Scandinavian roots in Cloud Cult's twee undertones. "Hippie" isn't quite the right word, nor is "green." It's mainly such a fresh-faced, unabashed, un-ironic sincerity that it's difficult for the average urbanite to understand...
- www.filter-mag.com
2010-11-15
★★★★★
Dealing with grief has been the primary driving force behind Craig Minowa's songwriting since the 2002 death of his 2-year-old son. It's been at the heart of each subsequent Cloud Cult album, providing a grounding element to his cosmically minded, vaguely New Age-y explorations of the big philosophical questions of life and our place in the universe. It's significant then that Light Chasers is Minowa's first since the 2009 birth of Nova, his second son with wife and bandmate Connie...
- www.avclub.com
2010-10-11
★★★★★
Since 2002, Cloud Cult has used their albums to plumb the depths of grief experienced by frontman Craig Minowa and his wife Connie, who paints stage-side during each of the band's live shows, following the loss of their first son. The band's eighth album, Light Chasers, stands as a significant departure in a couple of key ways: In addition to drawing inspiration from the Minowas' birth of a healthy baby boy in late 2009, Light Chasers is the band's first proper concept album...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2010-09-18
★★★★★
There's no statute of limitations on grieving the loss of an infant child. For Craig and Connie Minowa, the 2002 death of two-year-old son Kaidin was enough to force a year-long separation. This bereavement also fueled the most cathartic moments of the Cloud Cult albums Craig would later record, in a geothermal-powered studio, at the couple's small, northern Minnesota organic farm...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Sound: Cloud Cult are an indie/avant-garde pop band from Minnesota. They've turned down deals from most major record labels, record their albums in a studio powered by geothermal energy that is partially made out of recycled plastic and reclaimed wood, donate all of the profits to environmental charities, and tour in a bio-diesel van. While you've probably never heard of them, they actually tend to do fairly well on college radio stations...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-01-30
Loading...
