"No Future/No Past," the first single from Cloud Nothings' forthcoming second record, suggested that Attack on Memory was going to be a radical change from their self-titled debut.
"Stay Useless," however, feels awfully familiar. It's less than three minutes long. It comes steeped in '90s bubblegum punk and '80s alterna-rock. And it finds Dylan Baldi hollering —in that hoarse, nasal, sneering pop-spunk voice— a refrain of plentiful repetition.
"I need time to stop moving/I need time to stay useless" is the chorus, and, like so many songs from second albums, it's surely about the grind of the road. The anthemic hook of its title comes conversant in Loser-esque '90s alt irony.
Cloud Nothings "Stay Useless"
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