Cloud Nothings

The brainchild of Dylan Baldi, Cloud Nothings are standard-bearers of driving, heartfelt indie rock. When the buzz about Baldi's music started, the Cleveland, Ohio native was still in his teens and his project was a one-man band specializing in the kind of lo-fi punk-pop captured on 2011's Cloud Nothings. Once Baldi recruited other members to give his music more heft, as on 2012's Attack on Memory, Cloud Nothings came into its own. On later albums like 2018's Last Building Burning, the band mastered its mix of hardcore intensity and surprisingly sweet melodies. With their early 2020s output -- 2020's The Black Hole Understands, 2021's The Shadow I Remember, and 2024's Final Summer -- Baldi and company gave a newfound maturity to the pithy, hooky sound of Cloud Nothings' roots.