“We’ve got no idea where we’re going,” singer Alister Wright once said, in an interview about his band’s stunning debut EP, “but when we get there it’ll be a party and all Cloud Control converts are invited.”
And the first taste of this is delivered right here in ‘Death Cloud’ – the first single from Cloud Control’s debut LP – due out in Autumn 2009.
Demoed in their home studio in the Blue Mountains [AKA sibling band members Heidi & Ulrich Lenffer’s parents’ basement], the song was later recorded and mixed at Sydney’s Big Jesus Berger studios by Berkfinger.
The Lenffers first met up with Alister Wright and Jeremy Kelshaw during a production of Pirates of Penzance in 2006. When the production finished the new friends threw in their tights, and Cloud Control – able leaders of an alt-folk revival – were born.
After ten days of song writing and rehearsals, the band found themselves in the 2007 Sydney Uni Band comp. Emerging victorious, Cloud Control quickly released a self-titled EP, which was awarded 4.5 stars in Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Metro’, and saw the band tagged as one of ‘Ten Artists to Watch’ on the Wireless Bollinger website.
Listening to the band’s beautiful alt-folk strumming, you can hear Cloud Control capturing a snapshot of an era when pitch-perfect harmonies were sung over folk hooks and sunny melodies; when pop was pure and just made you smile.
