Cloud Nothings/Mild High Club, April 14, 2015 at the Echo

The second in my week of four consecutive shows was Cloud Nothings. In all honesty, this was the show that I could have most done without, and maybe I got this one just to make it four consecutive shows in as many days, but it was also the club show with a club-appropriate band (as opposed to Luna, who could have played a bigger venue) and it seemed appropriate, and I hadn't seen them on this tour. We’d seen the band before, at FYF and at their own headlining show (in a considerably bigger place) so this one was no great revelation, but they played some of the new stuff (from Here And Nowhere Else) that sounded as good as anything else they had ever screamed out. It was also at the end of a crappy day at work but felt better after hanging out with Andrew & Heather. This was also the second show that Carla had to bail from, though I think I just ate the ticket ($15 or so) after a half-hearted attempt to sell it, deciding it would be a bother to keep trying too hard. Opening were Mild High Club, some psychedelic/drone thing (as if you couldn’t tell from their name). They weren’t as caffeinated as Cloud Nothings, but for a headliner who built their name on the patchwork of festival shows, their support was just fine.