December 2009: Cloud Cult Releases Double Disc

Two Full Length Albums For the Price of One: "They Live on the Sun" (2003) and "Aurora Borealis" (2004)

Download now for $11.99
or $14.49 plus shipping to own the CD (with this option you are also able to download the album immediately in addition to receiving the physical CD).

Click link at the top of this page to listen to samples of each of the songs.

About the Double-Disc --- Remastered, remixed and with bonus tracks!

Although the albums were originally released on the band's homemade label, predominantly on a local level, and on a shoe-string credit cardbudget, these albums brought the band national attention as the album topped major label bands on the college radio charts, including taking over Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief" top charting slot in cities like Denver, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Boston.

Lead singer/songwriter Craig Minowa created the albums during an 18 month long stint of seclusion at his Northern Minnesota organic farm after his two-year-old son passed away unexpectedly in 2002. The band has gone on to sell more than 30,000 copies of its follow-up releases, despite turning down major label offers.

The albums, previously distributed by hand by the band to a small handful of local Minnesota record stores, will now be available nationally as a special double-disc package. In typical Cloud Cult fashion, the albums are 100% postconsumer recycled material, printed with soy inks and tha band powered the mastering with wind energy (purchasing green energy credits). Cloud Cult has planted over a thousand trees to absorb pollutants from album releases and touring.

"A sweeping indie epic. Records this casually monumental are rare indeed!"
Pitchfork review of "They Live on the Sun"

"Deserves all the adjectives befitting a classic album. Genius. Sincerely groundbreaking indie rock."
Pop Matters review of "Aurora Borealis"

Tracklist:

They Live on the Sun

On the Sun

Moon's Thoughts

Turtle Shell

It

Da Dum

Man on the Moon

I'm Not Gone

Time

Radio Fodder

It's Gay

Best Friend

Shortenin' Bread

Took You For Granted

Back Again P.ii

Your Love Will Live Forever

Sleeping Days P.ii



Aurora Borealis

Breakfast With My Shadow

Alone at a Party in a Ghost Town

All Together Alone

Chandeliers

And It's Good

Grappling Hook

Northern Lights

The Sparks and Spaces Between Your Cells

Lights Inside My Head

Beautiful Boy

Click link at the top of this page to listen to samples of each of the songs. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Download now for $11.99
or choose to pay $14.49  in the drop-down menu plus shipping to own the CD (with this option you are also able to download the album immediately in addition to receiving the physical CD).