2021

Planetary Alignments

While You Were Sleeping

Send out for red wine, don’t think I’m gonna make it out this time, or maybe any time soon.

Spirits of the Stars

Nine Aspects

Parachute

Never Again

Agency (stereo mix)

Jenna My Love (band version)

Thunderbird Wine

Peanut Butter Man

“I’m Something Of A Big Deal On Soundcloud”

Four Times Now

The second single from South / East London band Cloud Studies. It's the follow-up to their debut 2024 single ‘Ghosts’.

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For Fans of: Dreampop, Shoegaze, Slowdive, Film School, My  Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Stereolab, Beach House, DIIV

Cloud Studies formed in 2024, as means for Adam Cresswell and Martin J Langthorne to explore the sonic possibilities offered by the large arsenal of effects pedals they had acquired.

‘Cloud Cartography’ was the first song written by Adam for the band as a means to set the tone for the direction of their sonic explorations. It was inspired by visits to the Derryveagh Mountains of Donegal in Ireland, and fighting off the elements as sheets of rain beat down upon the mountainous landscape.

The song is about trying to make sense of a constantly changing world and our efforts to document and understand it.  In a library, the protagonist meets someone attempting to map and catalogue the clouds. They find themselves standing together on a mountainside battling the elements, their undaunted optimism constantly challenged by the impossible nature of their undertaking. 

Sonically the song presents a panoramic, full-spectrum wall of sound; dreamy synths, layers of reverb-drenched guitars from Adrian Taylor and Martin J Langthorne, ethereal vocals from Adam Cresswell, underpinned by a tight insistent rhythm from drummer Nat Guest.

Cloud Studies:
Adam Cresswell, Vocals, bass; Nat Guest, Drums; Martin J Langthorne, Guitars; Adrian Taylor, Guitars

Produced by Adam Cresswell.
Mastered by Toby Campen Mastering.
Recorded at Nan's House Studios (Liverpool) and Bellasonic Sounds (London).

Cloud Cartography

CLOUD STUDIES: Cloud Cartography

The songs describes the moment just before a female singer songwriter achieves all her dreams. It is not 'if' but 'when' and she worries how she will remain true to her music - the fear of success.

As always we have myself (Morgan Bryan) on guitar and vocals, Chris Chalk on bass and Huw McPherson on drums. However this track also has stunningly beautiful vocals and violin provided by Harriet McDonnell and Anna Brooks, respectively. 

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