Communing With Ghosts

The Clouds Are Ghosts
From: Austin, Texas, United States

Austin four piece The Clouds Are Ghosts took some time out to chat to the Devil about their musical mystique, their love of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and why they made their music free.

The Devil: Why The Cloud Are Ghosts?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: There's a certain mystique to our music. The ambiguity is fitting.

The Devil: What other names did you ponder before deciding it had to be The Cloud Are Ghosts?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: The Beatles. It was taken.

The Devil: I've featured a large number of bands who have included the word ghost in their name, why do you think this is? Is it coincidence or something more psychological?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: It looks as if we're just as unoriginal as everyone else.

The Devil: Who are the biggest influences in your life and on your music?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: We influence one another as we write. We consistently try to do new things and build on what each other are doing. Oh, and we're all pretty avid Radiohead fans.

The Devil: What was the first record you owned and what was the first record you ever bought with your own money?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: The first record that was given to me was Kris Kross' Totally Krossed Out. For an eight year old, it was pretty life changing. I think the first album I purchased was Aerosmith's Get a Grip. I didn't think about it much at the time, but the album art had a nipple theme...not in an awesome way.

The Devil: What makes The Clouds Are Ghosts stand out from the millions of other bands across the world? What makes you unique?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: I think instead of focusing on a sound, we just write what we hear in our heads. I feel as if a lot of musicians start by saying "I'm going to write a 'blank' song" and then proceed to mimic their influences, which sometimes yields a pretty cool project, but more often than not, you end up with this overly derivative music, which takes away from truly creative bands. So I guess our range of sound makes us pretty different.

The Devil: Which bands or artists on the current music scene make your spine tingle with joy?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: It took a second listen, but Russian Circle's new album is pretty awesome.

The Devil: Favourite song?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: Maybe the worst question to ever ask someone who makes music (I thought it was quite good - The Devil).

The Devil: Favourite book?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is still one of my favorites. It's a bit dated, but Chuck Klosterman is such an entertaining and relevant writer.

The Devil: Favourite Movie?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: I was thinking about books a second ago and remembered 1984. Then I remembered watching 1984 the movie starring John Hurt. It's absolutely not the best movie I've ever seen but it definitely captured the spirit of the book in a way most movie adaptations screw up.

The Devil: Favourite word?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: What. You can use it in so many ways. Threatening, questioning, etc. It was also my initial reaction to this question.

The Devil: Tell me something that you've never told anyone before.

The Clouds Are Ghosts: No.

The Devil: If you weren't in The Cloud Are Ghosts how would you keep yourself occupied?

The Clouds Are Ghosts: Well, three of us in the band are actually pursuing careers in respectable fields as well as being members of this band, leaving myself and singer Jason Morris. If Morris weren't in this band, he'd be unbelievably successful in corporate America. Think Michael Douglas in "The Game"...or anything else Michael Douglas is in except "Falling Down". I'd be getting fat in an office somewhere instead of just getting fat in this band.

The Devil: If you were interviewing yourself what would your killer question be and how would you answer it?

The Cloud Are Ghosts: I would ask why anyone would choose to pursue such an unlikely career as a musician, to which I would answer that if you truly have something to say, whether you're an artist, writer, musician, or actor, you can't let convention and your parent's undying disappointment get in the way of that expression.

The Devil: Is there anything else you'd like to tell the Devil Has The Best Tuna readers?

The Cloud Are Ghosts: Yes, go listen to our music. Like, right now. We made it free for a reason.

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