Grimace and Grace (2012)

Grimace and Grace

you don't like cats

jersey suburbs

river running

narratives

fucking grateful

birds and bees

matt on the fourth

hannah

restless things

sea song

animal noises

Cloudbelly is a chamber-pop indie folk band from Western MA with a sound that is at once intimate and cinematic. The group is fronted by singer-songwriter Corey Laitman, a former member of the NYC antifolk scene and Signature Sounds record label, whose ethereal poeticisms are delivered in a spellbinding voice that tips its cap to Sufjan Stevens and Joni Mitchell in equal measure. Laitman is joined by guitarist and ambient sound sculptor Sam Perry (SVIP), drummer, producer, and sound mangler Nate Mondschein (who often works under the moniker of Best Mann), and bassist/keyboardist/arranger Reed Sutherland (a stalwart of the Western Mass music scene and a gaming music composer by day), whose lush strings thread each Cloudbelly track with a new nostalgic dimension. Together, the group makes music that sounds something like if boygenius, The National, Ed O’Brien, and a book of Anne Carson poems got snowed into the same roadside diner and decided to make an album while they waited out the storm.  Cloudbelly is currently gearing up for the drop of their sophomore record, "i know i know i know," in early 2024.