New Clouds

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New Clouds
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 19, 2009;9 years ago (2009-10-19)
Genre Ambient and psychedelic rock
Length60:04
Label Kranky
Producer Adam Forkner
White Rainbow chronology
Prism Of Eternal Now
(2007)
New Clouds
(2009)
THRU.U
(2014)

New Clouds is the sixth studio album by Adam Forkner under the band name White Rainbow, released in 2009 under the record company Kranky.

Adam Forkner is a musician / producer from Monterey, California, USA, who has performed as White Rainbow since 2003.

Kranky is an American independent record label in Chicago, Illinois. It was started in 1993 by Bruce Adams and Joel Leoschke. It houses predominantly experimental music artists, often branching into or inspired by ambient, rock, electronic or psychedelic music. Their first release was Labradford's 1993 debut album Prazision. Adams left the label in 2006, after which Leoschke continued running it, with the help of Brian Foote of Kranky band Nudge.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Mojo 8/10 [3]
Pitchfork 7/10 [4]

Joe Colly of Pitchfork praised the album, comparing it to a "long-form jazz" or "modern-classical piece". [4]

<i>Pitchfork</i> (website) online music magazine

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by Condé Nast. Being developed during Schreiber's tenure in a record store at the time, the magazine developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but has since expanded to a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music.

Track listing

Another Place [5]
No.TitleLength
1."Tuesday Rollers and Strollers"18:06
2."Major Spilage"12:49
3."All the Boogies In the World"20:09
4."Monday Boogies Forward Forever"16:00

Charts

Chart (2009)Position
Billboard New Age Albums [6] 7

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  3. "New Clouds Review". Mojo (November 2009): 101.|access-date= requires |url= (help)
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