Cloud Cover is the project of Boston’s Jenny Tuite (also of Dirty Dishes), providing an outlet to create music that’s stranger and more witchy than the Dirty Dishes stuff. Tuite is readying her first official Cloud Cover album, MIRROR ME, which will be released on Disposable America on the 23rd of September.
The label describe the album’s sound as, “Sparse instrumentation, droning tape experiments, and ambient passages… coupled with the songwriter’s ability to create eerie, hypnotic moods through sound.” However, as first single ‘Cannibalism’ showed, there’s a certain light present in Cloud Cover’s music, a fragility or tenderness that elevates it beyond exercises in plain, one-tone weirdness. As Disposable America puts it: “The dark intensity of the album is offset by its warmness; Tuite’s voice a ghost texture, guitars delicately picked like tree-branches”.
Today we’re excited to share the second single from the album. ‘Cake Bath’ builds slowly with hollow chimes emerging as if from an empty room, the lonely flow peppered with abrupt sparks of poltergeistic noise, harsh and brash and violent. Tuite’s soft vocals unfold through this, her tranquil cadence disrupted and distracted by both the vibrating silence and vicious commotion. It’s almost as though the song is that of a malfunctioning satellite drifting somewhere deep in outer space. Battered by radiation and cosmic forces, the spectral vocals play like some glitch-ridden radio transmission, a once important message now scrambled by static, repeating itself to the dark.
You can pre-order MIRROR ME now on vinyl or cassette via the Disposable America Bandcamp page, or digitally via the Cloud Cover Bandcamp page.
