Dermatillomania is an obsessive disorder characterized by picking at one’s own skin. Google that shit and it will give you nightmares. It also happens to be the title of the first track on this album from Harry Cloud. Also, irony of ironies, it is what listening to this record on repeat, trying to figure out how to characterize it, makes me feel. I want to pick at my fucking skin. It doesn’t make any sense to me. There are acoustic grunge tracks like the above mentioned, there are computer-generated loops, there are chipmunk voices, there are butt rock ‘70s guitar......

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Harry Cloud - Red Barn: Ok, I get serious douche chills from this guy's internet presence (seriously, I don't care that you write your band description as a weird rambly monologue and stop using so many backslashes, destroy all people in stupid guitar bands who think they are tortured artistic geniuses, nice rape joke lol f*ck you). BUT not gonna lie, the music is pretty good and Kate and I are mad about it. Slow f*cked up burnt out doomgazegaragewhatever for hating yourself and your surroundings w/ bits of Ty Segall, Sleep, Godflesh, Pink Floyd even? Recommended Tracks: "Windas", "Constant Power" -Henry...

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Ahhhh, what can I say about Harry Cloud that hasn't already been said?... Imagine if Kate Bush was diagnosed with schizophrenia and got heavily into drone and habitual drug use. Well thats pretty much where you are with Red Barn. After Cry Now, Cry Later and Our Love Is Bad, Red Barn is, I suspect, as accessible as Mr Cloud will ever endeavour to be, and you know what?Despite sounding 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, Anal Cunt and Sigur Rós shows, it is just that.......

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LA's Harry Cloud is at it again. His Cry Now, Cry Later EP with Cops was one of the highlights of 2013 - if you like music that slides muddily around your brain, soaking up here and picking up bits of mental debris there until what you end up with is a massive pile of amazing stuff that's half them and half your own fragmented, blasted preconceptions which I do. Now he's back, with another NYOP release on his bandcamp site and, if anything, it's an even more volatile and arresting collection, spanning as it does a bewilderingly broad spectrum......

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Harry Cloud is an Experimental Sludge/Doom/Stoner Metal Artist from Midland, GA, USA What can I say about Harry Cloud. Well he is one weird truly talented individual. I originally featured him back in 2012 when he was known as Single Mothers. Since then Harry has released a wide range of different releases to impress you with or even frustrate you with as well. As Harry doesn't play to normal genre conventions. His mixture of Sludge, Doom, Stoner Metal and Shoegaze Rock can be frustrating at times. But for every weird and frustrating note Harry does pull a brilliant riff from the......

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Harry Cloud is a doom, sludge, stoner, experimental band currently in LA, from Ga. I have previously interviewed Harry Cloud here, and if you want you can check out a review of the band I did when they were Single Mothers click here.  The band formally know as Single Mothers has released a new album for 2014. The album was released the first day in 2014 with six tracks of strangeness (which is a good thing). The new album entitled "red barn" has a very familiar harry cloud/single mothers sound, while at the same time question who you are listening to. The......

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