Pere Ubu – Cloudland (VG/VG+) – LP, US 1989

Cloudland is an LP by Pere Ubu from 1989 released on the Fontana label.

About this album

Cloudland finds Pere Ubu sharpening their experimental art rock into some of their most accessible and sharply tuneful music. Released in 1989, the album balances the band’s jagged ideas and restless imagination with cleaner hooks and a brighter studio sheen, making its oddball energy more immediate without losing their edge. Songs such as Waiting For Mary helped bring them a wider audience, while the record’s mix of wit, tension and off-kilter melody showed how adventurous post-punk could adapt to the late 1980s. It remains one of Pere Ubu’s most approachable and distinctive statements.

Genre: Punk & Alternative