# HARRY CLOUD Delivers “The Cyst,” Plump With Musical Possibilities, Out Now on Kitten Robot Records

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/harry-cloud-delivers-the-cyst-plump-with-musical-possibilities-out-now-on-kitten-robot-records/
- Published: 2023-02-10T10:00:00-06:00
- 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**_

### **Innovative Shape-Shifter**⏎ **HARRY CLOUD****Delivers a Plump ‘Cyst’ Full of Musical Possibilities**

#### **A Smorgasbord of Psych-Tinged Sludge and Stoner Indie Rock Steeped With Bits of Metal, Funk, and Twang⏎ Out Today _via _Kitten Robot

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**FEBRUARY 7, 2023 (Los Angeles, CA) — HARRY CLOUD **refuses to sit still, creatively,
unleashing a cornucopia of melded musical ideas on _**[THE CYST](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=70ad48cbbb&e=615f2b8493),**
_which arrives today _via_ **Kitten Robot Records **and is produced by** Paul Roessler**(
_Nina Hagen, TSOL, Pat the Bunny, Josie Cotton_). Through ten distinctively unique
tracks, the Georgia-based Avant-composer takes us on a mystery tour that delivers
curveball after curveball, showing off his inventive energy while keeping us all
on our toes. With 16 combined album and EP releases to his credit (under the monikers**
Fannyland**, **Orphan Goggles**, and **COPS** as well as Harry Cloud), **_THE CYST_**
might just the most accessible chapter yet in a prolific story that shows no sign
of ending anytime soon. 

It’s true – cysts are not often thought of among life’s greatest rewards. But metaphorically
speaking, you’ve got to deal with them in order to find relief, which is exactly
what Harry Cloud is getting at with this ambitious project. A horror film enthusiast
with a penchant for the macabre, he’s not afraid to ‘_go there_‘: rejection, perversion,
alcoholism, unrequited love, the fine art of sexting, unwanted pregnancy, doomed
relationships… even missing bodies – they’re all part of the compellingly non-linear
storylines contained within _**THE CYST, **_and he approaches each track with a 
different vocal style to match.   

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**Harry Cloud**
Photo credit: Sarah Sitkin

“_The Cyst_ came about like all my records I make with Paul Roessler,” Harry explains
about the new 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.”

Opener **“Send Me Pictures”** is a perfect example of our narrator’s ability to 
blend seemingly disparate, sweet and sour elements into something musical and engaging.
Part catchy hoedown, part paean to sexting, it’s the story of a perverted, alcoholic
cowboy told with a piercing shriek that’s as jarring as it is comical (in a _Tim&
Eric Show_ kinda way).  

And then there’s the gorgeously obtuse interspecies love song, **[“](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b4498f17ea&e=615f2b8493)
[Squid Friend](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=0800a106e9&e=615f2b8493)
[,”](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=ecb893c31e&e=615f2b8493)**
which** **waxes poetic about a star-crossed affair. 

“’[Squid Friend](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2023/01/avant-rock-artist-harry-cloud-pens-slimy-love-song-to-a-squid-in-new-singlethe-cyst-album-out-feb-7/)’
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
in forlorn tones. “The song is full of longing for his slimy lover.”

Harry Cloud - Send Me Pictures

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**Harry Cloud “Send Me Pictures”**

The sludgy **“[Ferryman’s Guild](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=39fc6b4730&e=615f2b8493),”**
meanwhile, 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.”    _**THE CYST **_brims with_****
_bizarre charm throughout, from “Ferryman’s…” skronky moments of cacophonous crunch
to something tangibly funkier (the title track, the Zappa-esque “**Soft Pillowcases
Colored Red**“), occasionally veering past ethereal, shoegaze territory (“**Most
Likely Nothing Ever**“) en route to the closer “**Lick the Lamb**,” a metallic grand
finale that transitions from something that’d almost sound at home on AOR-radio 
into a coven’s sacrificial ceremony by song’s end. 

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. The latest chapter in their fruitful
creative partnership, **_THE CYST_**,**_ _**is out today**_. _**

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**_THE CYST _**

[[**_THE CYST _**
**Tracklisting**[Send Me Pictures](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=f296dfbe52&e=615f2b8493)[Ferryman’s Guild](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b0127b3669&e=615f2b8493) Post Partum
You Never Came To My Party The Cyst Soft Pillowcases Colored Red [Squid Friend](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=9b2fe43efc&e=615f2b8493) Most Likely
Nothing Ever I’m Still Waiting Lick The Lamb

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