Dylan Baldi

Dylan Baldi is a guitarist and songwriter in the band Cloud Nothings. He currently lives and drinks lots of seltzer in western Massachusetts.

 

Bio

Cloud Nothings is an American indie rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, United States, founded by singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi. It currently consists of lead singer and guitarist Dylan Baldi, drummer Jayson Gerycz, and bassist Chris Brown. Beginning in 2009, the band originally started as a solo project, with Baldi recording both vocals and instrumentals in his parents' basement, although he performed live with a full band. The band was signed to Washington, D.C.-based Carpark Records. They are now signed to Pure Noise Records. Cloud Nothings is the first full-length studio album and second LP overall by Cloud Nothings. It was released on January 24, 2011, by Carpark Records. Their breakthrough album, Attack on Memory, was released on Carpark in 2012. Their next LP, Here and Nowhere Else, was released on April 1, 2014. Cloud Nothings' album Life Without Sound was released on January 27, 2017. This was followed by Last Building Burning, released on October 19, 2018, the Bandcamp exclusive The Black Hole Understands on July 3, 2020, Life Is Only One Event on December 4, 2020, and The Shadow I Remember on February 26, 2021. On November 1, 2023, it was announced that Cloud Nothings had signed to Pure Noise Records, on which they released the single, "Final Summer". "Final Summer" was later revealed to be the title track to the band's ninth studio album, released on April 19, 2024. Baldi has cited numerous bands and artists as influences, including Wipers, the Lemonheads, the Forms, Life Without Buildings, Women, No Age, Deerhunter, Black Sabbath, Nina Hagen, Killdozer, Zounds, Thin Lizzy, Swell Maps. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Talks

Best of 2018: Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings) Loves an Obscure French band Called Rose Mercie

By Dylan Baldi | December 14, 2018

Best of 2018: Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings) Loves an Obscure French band Called Rose Mercie

And now he wants to play shows with them.

Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings) Talks Malcolm Goldstein’s Full Circle Sounding

By Dylan Baldi | September 2, 2015

Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings) Talks Malcolm Goldstein’s Full Circle Sounding

How the new album by a 73-year-old extended-technique avant-garde violinist inspired a creative breakthrough for a twentysomething rock guitarist.