# Avant Rock Artist HARRY CLOUD Pens Slimy Love Song To A Squid In New Single…”The Cyst” Album Out Feb. 7

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- Published: 2023-01-12T11:00:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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“Harry Cloud sounds like you’ve been tethered to a quad bike and dragged full speed,
over broken electrical equipment and through a successive series of Kraftwerk, Atari
Teenage Riot, A.C. and Sigur Rós shows” – _**The Burning Beard**_

““… stately artistic sludge bordering on insanity and avant-garde dadaistic drone
that drags you into their own colorful tar pit and smothers you with their bizarre
mushroomed psychedelic.” –  _**The Stoner Hive**_

**Avant-Rock Artist**
**HARRY CLOUD****Pens Slimy Love Song “SQUID FRIEND”About 
A Doomed Romance with A Cephalopod

**Ready to Pop **_**THE CYST **_**Filled with Sludge, Stoner Metal, Indie Rock, 
Funk and Shoegaze on**_** **_**New Album 
Out February 7, 2022 _via _Kitten Robot

**JANUARY 10, 2023 (Los Angeles, CA) — **There has never been a more gorgeously 
obtuse interspecies love song than **HARRY CLOUD**’s **“Squid Friend.”  **Taken 
from his upcoming album _**THE CYST**_ (release date: **February 7, 2022**), “Squid
Friend” finds the experimental artist waxing poetic about his star-crossed affection
for the tentacled cephalopod.  “’Squid Friend’ is a beautiful, whimsical tune about
a human who’s in love with an aquatic creature but ultimately becomes heartbroken
because he cannot breathe underwater,” he explains forlornly. “The song is full 
of longing for his slimy lover.”

Perfectly at home on his bizarrely charming album _**THE CYST**_** **(release date:**
February 7, 2023** _via _**Kitten Robot Records**), “Squid Friend” gradually builds
to a cathartic crescendo that ultimately tells of the doomed romance. “I like how
the song is a slow build the whole time until it reaches a powerful climax followed
by a pleasant, washy resolution at the end,” he smiles proudly. “I wish all my songs
could have such a neat flow.

Harry Cloud - Squid Friend

[⌊Harry Cloud - Squid Friend⌉⌊Harry Cloud - Squid Friend⌉
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**Harry Cloud “Squid Friend”**

With layered vocals showering over chiming guitar tones, Harry Cloud once again 
enlisted the help of producer **Paul Roessler **(_Nina Hagen, TSOL, Pat the Bunny,
Josie Cotton_) for the curious track.  “I had written the basic guitar parts for
this at home and Paul and I made up the rest in the studio,” he says. “At first,
that epic build up seemed a little too cheesy and embarrassing for me, but I just
went for it and now I love it because it’s unusual for me.”  

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**Harry Cloud**
Photo credit: Sarah Sitkin

“_The Cyst_ came about like all my records I make with Paul Roessler,” he explains
about the compelling, mesmerizing set. “I come into the studio with completed songs,
half written stuff or nothing at all. A lot of stuff is hashed out, made up and 
organized in the studio. I had no direction for the album, it was just what I was
writing at the time. After a certain number of songs have been recorded and a period
of my life feels like it’s coming to a close, I say ‘OK that’s an album,’ and then
off to the next one.”

Now officially signed to Josie Cotton’s Kitten Robot Records, Harry Cloud plans 
to unleash a whole new era of wildly experimental music. “I’m not trying to be anything
or trying to do one style,” he confesses. “I’m not a fashionable person. I like 
what I like and if something sounds cool I put it out. I want to create a dream 
universe absent from reality. The lyrics come from my subconscious and only hint
at meaning. If you like slow metal, psychedelic noise and/or abstract weirdo rock,
you might like Harry Cloud. If you don’t like any of that stuff, you still might
like Harry Cloud.”

“Squid Friend” follows his most recent single, the catchy hoe-down “**Send Me Pictures**”
about a perverted, inappropriate, socially unacceptable alcoholic cowboy. A paean
to sexting, it’s wild, “oh-my-gosh,” [animated video](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=6ad14ddd13&e=615f2b8493)(“
I just think that it’s a funny sext message request to send someone,” he laughs)
is quite an eyeful. The sludgy **“[Ferryman’s Guild](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=97925679c5&e=615f2b8493)”**
injects subtle synths amidst a sea of distorted guitars and guttural vocals. It’s
a “really unusual song,” he explains. “Paul [Roessler] put a lot of crazy noises
throughout the song and I really like my singing. My friend Ryan Weiner played the
guitar solo in the middle and I think it’s amazing. The song isn’t really about 
anything, as some of my songs aren’t. It’s made up words and things that just sounded
cool and worked well together phonetically.”   

Harry Cloud - Send Me Pictures

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**Harry Cloud “Send Me Pictures”**

Hailing from Midland, Georgia on the border of Alabama, Harry Cloud’s first foray
into music began in the MySpace years when he befriended a group of likeminded artists
and moved upstate to Atlanta to join the experimental/noise scene under the name
A Butterfly-Eaten Horsehead and later Single Mothers. Migrating out West to Los 
Angeles afforded a meeting with Roessler who helped him hone his sound with tighter
production at Kitten Robot studios where he’s recorded 16 albums and EPs so far 
under Harry Cloud, Fannyland, Orphan Goggles, COPS and Harry Cloud/Paul Roessler.

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**_THE CYST _**

_**The Cyst**_ will be released _via_ **Kitten Robot Records** and was produced 
by **Paul Roessler**.   

[[**_THE CYST _**
**Tracklisting**[Send Me Pictures](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=82d4a11573&e=615f2b8493)[Ferryman’s Guild](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=7359d655f0&e=615f2b8493) Post Partum
You Never Came To My Party The Cyst Soft Pillowcases Colored Red Squid Friend Most
Likely Nothing Ever I’m Still Waiting Lick The Lamb

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