Cloud-Wow Music

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Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Shelby Bryant first burst onto the Memphis scene in the mid-nineties with the Clears, a trio of fiercely pronounced personalities who imploded not too long after their sole self-titled LP was released on SLR in 1997. With his muse still in overdrive, Shelby began a relentless binge of writing and recording, the fruits of which displayed a much more all-embracing yet somehow also more radical musical vision than the Clears had ever evinced.

Harvested in his hometown of Memphis, this bountiful crop of 'Cloud-Wow Music' represents Shelby's inaugural plunge into solo mode. Like a lot of folks these days, he has hip retro gear and oddball style aplenty, but it's his pitch-perfect tunes and pure ruthless bona fide HOOKS, effortless in their tour de forcedom, that sets him apart from the hordes of synth-pop pretenders.

Product Description
Happy synth pop from Memphis by ex-Clears mainman. Think joyous beagles dancing atop doghouses, love notes to little red -haired girls, thumb-sucking runt brothers with security blankets. Think Vince Guaraldi on acid! 15 tracks packaged in a digipack. 2001 release.

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Cloud-Wow Music
Cloud-Wow Music
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • awesome
  • I Can't Believe It Came From Memphis But Then Again I Can
  • Just based on a few tracks, but...
 Cloud-Wow Music
Shelby Bryant
Manufacturer: Smells Like Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005BI2G
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

  1. Hello So Fine
  2. The Walk
  3. Everything
  4. Fluxogen/Neverything
  5. In the Sun
  6. Inchworm
  7. Totally Sigmund
  8. You're a Star
  9. Peebly Mcnownow
  10. Thurmond Crimm
  11. Wedding
  12. My Dandylion Wish
  13. The Bitter Wind
  14. Never Wrong
  15. Arabesque

Album Description

Happy synth pop from Memphis by ex-Clears mainman. Think joyous beagles dancing atop doghouses, love notes to little red -haired girls, thumb-sucking runt brothers with security blankets. Think Vince Guaraldi on acid! 15 tracks packaged in a digipack. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars awesome.......2005-08-17

trippy as hell and awesome. this music will make you happy. it is awesome. simply awesome.

4 out of 5 stars I Can't Believe It Came From Memphis But Then Again I Can.......2001-08-10

This is a very pleasant collection of songs from a young Memphian I can only call "ultra-modern". I live in Memphis. I know Memphis is mostly about Elvis, Sam and Dave, Al Green, Sam the Sham, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Charlie Rich, Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Three Six Mafia, all sorts of rockabilly and soul and gutbucket and rap. But this is really great, too, in a completely different way, more like Big Star and Alex Chilton when he's not really angry and bitter. This is ethereal and damn near giddy music... it's intelligent, rooted in 60's white pop with a carefully crafted psychedelic edge. It floats along, pulls you in and...well, it makes you feel happy. It's ultra-modern -- nobody else sounds like this -- and it's very smart. I can't wait for the follow-up. I'm the Big Oh and I gotta go.

4 out of 5 stars Just based on a few tracks, but..........2001-06-28

...wouldn't be out of place in the Elephant Six collective. I heard part of this in Shangri-La Records in Memphis, and I thought I was listening to a lost Kinks album. The little bits I heard were eclectic, but consistently bright, poppy, tuneful, melodic, and every other buzz word that I look for in music these days. Unfortunately, I didn't buy it, as I'd already picked out my selections; but I'm going back next week and I'm definitely getting it then. As should you. But since you probably don't want to go all the way to Memphis if you don't live there, YOU should get it from Amazon.com.
Cloud-Wow Music
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Cloud-Wow Music
    Shelby Bryant
    Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B000A2P0IK
    Release Date: 2001-04-30

    Tracks:

    1. Hello So Fine
    2. Walk
    3. Everything
    4. Fluxogen/Neverything
    5. In the Sun
    6. Inchworm
    7. Totally Sigmund
    8. You're a Star
    9. Peebly Mcnownow
    10. Thurmond Crimm
    11. Wedding
    12. My Dandylion Wish
    13. Bitter Wind
    14. Never Wrong
    15. Arabesque

    Rock Music:

    1. Concert Classics, Vol. 2 [Live]
    2. Crazy Again [Import]
    3. Crowded Alone
    4. Dialogue
    5. Disconnection_Imminent [Enhanced]
    6. Distorted Dimensions
    7. Earth Church
    8. Earth Sky & Everything Between [Import]
    9. Endless Summer Legends
    10. Ephemera

    Rock Music

    rock music