Cloudland (album)

Cloudland
Studio album by Pere Ubu
Released	May 1989
Genre	Alternative rock, post-punk
Label	Fontana
Producer	Paul Hamann, Stephen Hague & Daniel Miller.
Pere Ubu chronology
The Tenement Year (1988) Cloudland (1989) One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams (1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A−[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

Cloudland is the seventh studio album by the American experimental rock/post-punk band Pere Ubu.

As indicated by the presence of producer Stephen Hague (OMD, Pet Shop Boys), this album is among the most straightforwardly pop efforts in the Ubu canon. The album features glossy surfaces and bubbly synth pads, but the poetic vision of singer/bandleader David Thomas roots the album firmly within the Ubu tradition. The track "Love Love Love", originally titled "Can't Believe It", dates from the band's Hearpen singles days of the mid-1970s (featuring a co-writing credit for founding guitarist Peter Laughner), but has been transformed from a Velvet Underground-inspired chug to an almost bizarrely chipper synth-pop exercise. The track "Waiting for Mary", the video for which achieved some MTV exposure, netted Pere Ubu their only Billboard chart success to date, reaching #6 on the Modern Rock chart.

After being out-of-print for many years the album was re-released on CD with bonus tracks in 2007.

Track listing

1. Breath – 3:58
2. Race the Sun – 3:25
3. Cry – 2:33
4. Why Go It Alone? – 2:49
5. Waiting for Mary – 3:29
6. Ice Cream Truck – 2:48
7. Bus Called Happiness – 3:13
8. Monday Night – 2:15
9. Love Love Love – 3:28
10. Lost Nation Road – 2:16
11. Fire – 3:45
12. Nevada! – 3:20
13. The Wire – 3:20
14. Flat – 2:23
15. The Waltz – 3:30
16. Pushin' – 2:27

Singles

Personnel

• David Thomas – vocals
• Jim Jones – guitar, backing vocals
• Allen Ravenstine – EML synthesizers, backing vocals
• Tony Maimone – bass, backing vocals
• Chris Cutler – drums
• Scott Krauss – drums

With

• Stephen Hague – keyboards

References