Music : Body&Soul Main Stage 2011 : Cloud Castle Lake
Cloud Castle Lake are a four piece from Dublin city. They aim to carve out a large, unwieldy sound. They seek out the relatively uncharted territory between guitar music and electronic & sampler music, arriving at an atmospheric and intense sound.
Here's what Jim Carroll had to say about them recently
"Band of the weekend for me by a country mile were Cloud Castle Lake, an outfit who’ve hopped, skipped and jumped their way to the top of my rankings since first caught in action at The Destructors’ Manifesto. Now, the songs are sturdy, the musical chops are immense and the sense of ambition is gigantic. It takes time for a band to find their feet and for all that early promise which makes you excited in the first place to actually amount to something. One of the new tunes, the one which started out with a soundbed of simple, sweet guitar strums before the most evil drums on Middle Abbey Street kicked in like a jumbo jet taking off, summed up the gumption and brass on show here."
Here's what Jim Carroll had to say about them recently
"Band of the weekend for me by a country mile were Cloud Castle Lake, an outfit who’ve hopped, skipped and jumped their way to the top of my rankings since first caught in action at The Destructors’ Manifesto. Now, the songs are sturdy, the musical chops are immense and the sense of ambition is gigantic. It takes time for a band to find their feet and for all that early promise which makes you excited in the first place to actually amount to something. One of the new tunes, the one which started out with a soundbed of simple, sweet guitar strums before the most evil drums on Middle Abbey Street kicked in like a jumbo jet taking off, summed up the gumption and brass on show here."
