Zone (Cloud Control album)

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Zone
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Studio album by
Cloud Control
Released1 September 2017 (2017-09-01)
Length40:42 [1]
Label Ivy League
Producer Alister Wright, George Nicholas, Wayne Connolly, Eric J Dubowsky
Cloud Control chronology
Dream Cave
(2013)		Zone
(2017)
Singles from Dream Cave
  1. "Rainbow City"
    Released: 12 May 2017 [2]
  2. "Zone (This Is How It Feels)"
    Released: 28 July 2017 [3] [4]
  3. "Treetops"
    Released: 28 July 2017 [5] [6]
  4. "Panopticon"
    Released: January 2018 [7]

Zone is the third and final studio album by Australian band Cloud Control. The album was released on 1 September 2017 and peaked at number 53 on the ARIA Charts.

Contents

The album is Alister Wright's production debut [8] and was supported with a five date Australian tour in September and October 2017. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]

Adam Wilding from The Music said "The third album from the Blue Mountains trio was four years in the making and has stepped away from the dream pop that soaked their much-lauded albums Bliss Release and Dream Cave . Having lost a bass player but gained production skill (lead singer Alister Wright recorded and mixed the album) Zone reveals a band that have grown up." [9]

Nastassia Baroni from Music Feeds said "Zone took longer than expected to come together. But, with time comes finesse, and Zone is rich with sonic exploration, musical innovation and emotional perception." [10]

Perth Underground said "With the band wielding complete control over the album, Zone possesses the dreamy, psych-infused sound that initially marked Cloud Control as a stalwart fixture in Australia’s music scene, while also evoking feelings of loss and nostalgia." [8]

Langdon Hickman from Treblezine said "Cloud Control deliver a psychically confused record on Zone" adding "Cloud Control shows a firm grasp of song structures that don’t allow the tune to tire out before they cut the tape and enough production acumen to give each section its own identifiable trait." [11]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cloud Control (except where noted).

No.TitleLength
1."Zone (This Is How It Feels)"4:09
2."Treetops"4:25
3."Rainbow City"3:10
4."Panopticon"3:23
5."Lights on the Chrome"4:10
6."Goldfish"3:42
7."Lacuna"4:22
8."Mum's Spaghetti"4:49
9."Summer Rave"3:50
10."Find Me in the Water" (writen by Douglas Wright)4:33
Total length:46:46

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [12] 53

References

  1. ↑ "Zone". AllMusic . 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "New Music: Cloud Control, 'Rainbow City'". Backyard Opera. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 "First listen: Cloud Control - 'Zone (This Is How It Feels)'". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . 27 July 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Cloud Control's new single 'Zone (This Is How It Feels)' Out Friday 28/7/2017". YouTube. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "Cloud Control's new single 'Treetops' Out NOW". YouTube. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. ↑ "Cloud Control Release Video for "TreeTops"". mixdownmag. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "Cloud Control's new single 'Panopticon' is out NOW". YouTube. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Cloud Control Back in the Zone with Third Album". Perth Underground. September 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  9. 1 2 "Album Review: Cloud Control - Zone". The Music (magazine). 27 August 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  10. ↑ "Cloud Control Take Us Track By Track Through Their New Album 'ZONE'". Music Feeds . 4 September 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  11. ↑ "Cloud Control Zone". Treblezine. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  12. ↑ "ARIA Chart Watch #437". auspOp. 9 September 2017. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
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