AM Clouds featured in Central Oregon Upcoming Releases story

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AM Clouds were featured in a Bend Bulletin article on upcoming releases from Central Oregon bands.

AM Clouds
Title: “Rainmaker”
Release date: spring, TBA

This Bend power-pop supergroup made an auspicious live debut at the 2017 Bend Roots Revival and spent 2018 shoring up its fan base with gigs at Volcanic Theatre Pub, Spoken Moto, a headlining slot at the 2018 Powder Palooza and more. Between gigs, the band worked on a full-length follow-up to 2017’s three-song EP “War of Love.”

Basic tracks for “Rainmaker” were recorded live with engineer Dayne Wood at The Firing Room (where Larry and His Flask, Cosmonautical, The Roof Rabbits and more recorded recent releases), with vocals and other bells and whistles overdubbed later.

“We’ve been playing together for over a year now, and we tend to really rehearse a lot before we play live,” Moon said. “And going into the studio, we definitely did a lot of preproduction. We went in prepared, and it was almost like a pleasant surprise to all of us — like, wow, we just did that in two takes, OK, perfect. It’s not gonna get any better than that.”

A single, “Headlong,” dropped in December. Moon and the rest of the band — bassist Pete Ficht, drummer Dan Paggi and guitarist Graham Boostrom — will play their next gig opening for The Mother Hips at Volcanic Theatre Pub on Jan. 30.

- Brian McElheny, 1/10/19