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Subhuman Essence

by CLOUDSURFERS

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Yaggerdang 03:12
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Cheap Cocaine 04:22
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Adolescent Love 04:00
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Contradicting Medication 02:55
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The Moon - Midwest Comfort 08:11
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Hobo Jojo 04:13
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The Curse 03:23
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Ein Chaumeur 02:40
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Replace It 03:21
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Hooray 06:20
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Cloudsurfers’ mutant strand of garage punk, post-grunge and psychedelic rock rolls with the glee of a bunch of death-defying storm chasers. One moment their songs swarm at the heart of the breakneck G-forces, the next they’re ghostriding the expressway to hook-laden alt-pop nirvana.

Cloudsurfers’ second album Subhuman Essence is a daredevil attempt to match the group’s boisterous stage hijinks on record. Furthermore, it captures a band urgently familiarizing themselves with one another. The band’s debut LP Don’t Know What Hit Me largely accommodated singer/guitarist Thom Liesting’s expressive songwriting; this time around, the group had a larger puzzle to solve. For one, there was the challenge of having the group's two heavy-hitting hombres – Nanne Hatzman and Ramses Hooymeijer – playing off each other’s strengths.

Furthermore, the album perfectly encapsulates Cloudsurfers’ rapidly developing chemistry, especially between guitarist Pieter Sloot’s cerebral composing chops and Liesting’s reality-bending chronicles of misadventure. Bassist Jess van der Zee, meanwhile, is the ultimate tether that keeps all the erratic rhythms and melodies from spiraling into a hodgepodge of noise, discharging guttural heavy-melodic slabs with a perpetually awestruck smile on her face.

To mix Subhuman Essence, Cloudsurfers approached producer Michael Badger, who previously worked with Amyl & The Sniffers and SONS, and twiddled the knobs for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s totemic Nonagon Infinity. The latter album has been one of the defining records that shaped Cloudsurfers’ own formative years, so as far as full circle moments go, that would be an F5 tornado-sized one. As a band at the glorious up rush of their creative powers, Cloudsurfers are off to chase the next storm up ahead, weathering rain and thunder and hitching rides on top. If they happen to crash through a town near you, best get into the pocket.

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released September 15, 2023

Recorded by Abel de Grefte
Mixed by Michael Badger
Mastered by Pieter Kloos
Artwork by Simon Berndt

Ramses Hooymeijer - drums
Nanne Hatzman - drums
Jess van der Zee - bass guitar
Thom Liesting - vox + guitar
Pieter Sloot - guitar

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CLOUDSURFERS Nijmegen, Netherlands

Cloudsurfers’ mutant strand of garage punk, post-grunge and psychedelic rock rolls with the glee of a bunch of death-defying storm chasers. One moment their songs swarm at the heart of the breakneck G-forces, the next they’re ghostriding the expressway to hook-laden alt-pop nirvana.

Cloudsurfers’ second album Subhuman Essence will be released on September 15th. ... more

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