Shelby Bryant first burst onto the Memphis scene in the mid-nineties with the Clears, a trio of fiercely pronounced personalities who imploded not too long after their sole self-titled LP was released on SLR in 1997. With his muse still in overdrive, Shelby began a relentless binge of writing and recording, the fruits of which displayed a much more all-embracing yet somehow also more radical musical vision than the Clears had ever evinced. Breathing that same rare air as Brian Wilson, Syd Barrett, and Dani...   [ read more ]

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If you went back in time to 1956, got Jerry Lee Lewis feeling a little loose, took him to see a Flash Gordon movie and asked him to close his eyes and imagine what kind of music would be coming out of Memphis in the futuristic paradise that awaits mankind beyond the year 2000, the Killer might very well answer dreamily, "Cloud-Wow, darlin' Cloud-Wow." Forget the warn out overexposed sound of one hand clapping, Shelby Bryant's music expresses the jubilant and until this time unthinkable sound of one Charles...   [ read more ]

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Not as edgy as the work of his former band the Clears, Cloud Wow Music employs a more ethereal take on '80s synth pop, with Bryant's delicately high-pitched late-'60s psychedelia-style vocals providing the forefront for these celestial pinings. A certain melodic aptitude, coupled with slick production by Steve Shelley (Cat Power, Sonic Youth), assists in reining in the unabashed spaciness that permeates this song cycle. ~ Travis Drageset, All Music Guide

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