A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Cloud Cult

After making a splash in the college-rock circuit with 2005’s Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus, Minnesota indie-rock band Cloud Cult built on that success with the richly orchestrated, introspective, and resolutely optimistic The Meaning Of 8 and Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes). Though it’s life-affirming music, songwriter Craig Minowa’s muse is a tragic one: Since the 2002 death of his infant son Kaidin, he’s has written album after album dealing with the loss. As the 2009 documentary No One Said It Would Be Easy makes clear, it’s both an obsession and a celebration, and gives Cloud Cult a connection with its fan base that is rare in its intimacy.

Updated 04/24/2009

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