Dave Cloud and The Gospel of Power
   

Dave Cloud Press Archive: 2010–2014

Nashville Scene

Nashville Scene
11 August 2011

 

Press Archive

Clouded Judgment: Five LPs in, and outsider freak-flag-flyer Dave Cloud hasn't stopped drinking, lusting or rocking [review of Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power's album Practice in the Milky Way]
By Adam Gold
On his 20-track fifth effort Practice in the Milky Way. . . Cloud is more than comfortable making the listener uncomfortable, slurring gruff-voiced and graphic, lascivious catcalls atop [The Gospel of Power's] roadhouse psych. The result is a mostly rockin', ever weird, sometimes wonderful and often terrifying chimerical sojourn through the mind of a very active, very drunk and very lecherous oddball — starting in the land of garage-rock stompers such as Stooges-like opener 'On the Rebound,' moving through creepy streams of non-sequitur like the acoustic and unsettling 'Surfer Joe,' before inevitably descending into shambolic madness with the avant-jazzy penultimate 'Spanky Spank' and set-in-Satan's-saloon-sounding closer 'Party Party Party.'
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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound [UK]
29 July 2011

 

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: Practice in the Milky Way [album review]
By Andrew Kennedy
If you like your artists old and horned up then Dave's your man. . . . For the grizzled old Sex Pest from Nashville has produced a fantastic record. 8 out of 10.
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The Independent

The Independent [UK]
29 July 2011

 

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: Practice in the Milky Way [album review]
By Andy Gill
Nashville's 'garage-rock lounge lizard extraordinaire' is given to bouts of Beefheartian lyricism on his latest collection, bawled with sinister charm over grinding riffs whose function is surely to keep his muse on the rails.
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The 405

The 405 [UK]
26 July 2011

 

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: Practice in the Milky Way [album review]
By Chris Lancaster
The album is executed well and chugs along with fuzz guitars, sharp sonic snares and bass lines holding everything together tightly enough for Cloud's almost beat poetry and sometimes strangely heartfelt and quite sweet lyrics as heard on the doo wop almost Zappa-like 'Nudist Camp,' although let's not lead you all up the wrong alleyway here, the Howlin’ Wolf turns of phrase and blues hollers aren't far away to add some grease and dirt to the mix (as heard on the excellent 'Razmatazz').
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Impose Magazine [USA]
13 July 2011

 

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: Practice in the Milky Way [album review]
By Anthony Mark Happel [Black Orchid]
This expansive album [is] a twisted, sardonic journey through the dark recesses of his musical mind, and it takes on a number of faces along the way. . . . On a song like “Eat Me Raw,” Cloud’s off-the-grid persona is beyond irreverent to the point of being genuinely radical. Something you rarely hear in popular music. He’s a revolutionary, an anarchist, a bomb thrower. . . . And, like so many true musical outsiders, from Captain Beefheart to Mark E. Smith, Cloud is forcing us to look at things around us in a new way by forcing us to listen in a new way.
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The Skinny

The Skinny [Scotland/UK]
7 July 2011

 

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: Practice in the Milky Way [album review]
By Sam Wiseman
In an increasingly constrained US moral climate . . . Cloud reminds us of what a true American maverick sounds like: mischievous and confrontational, but never boring. 4 out of 5.
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Subba Cultcha [UK]
14 June 2011

 

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: Practice in the Milky Way [album review]
By James Sykes
[I] found myself to be quite impressed. . . . In parts this album sounds like any other traditional blues record, before sliding effortlessly towards a more punkier, heavier sound. 7 out of 10.
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