eMusic.com
"Having recently departed New York City for Buffalo, you can almost hear the isolation in David Cloyd's debut. UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! jumps between folky, Jeff Buckley-esque ballads, minor-key raucous indie-guitar workouts,
and, errr, a Radiohead cover (that's actually quite great!) . . . and it's a joy to listen to."
—Amelia Raitt
Melodic.net
**** (Four Stars) ". . . an almost perfect album. This new talent David Cloyd, produced by melodic.net favorite Blake Morgan, offers a stylish and at times complex pop journey. With floating melodies built with acoustic elements and technical details, [this is] contemporary pop at its very best. Just listen to the tracks "Give Your Enemies a Chance to Rest" and opening track "Sold Out Bargain" and you will understand . . . Cool pop in a slightly odd and very
personal style, this is a must album."
—Johan Wippsson
New York Magazine
"And for Cloyd, all those possibilities finally seem within reach. He’s been
signed to a New York label, Engine Company, and his first album, UNHAND
ME, YOU FIEND!, is scheduled to come out in January."
—Adam Sternbergh
TheCelebrityCafe.com
"UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! is the debut album from musician David Cloyd.
He uses this album to convey the struggles of everyday life. Cloyd’s voice . . .
was very reminiscent of singers like David Berkeley and Jeff Buckley . . . The lingering guitar line paired with his voice [in "The First Sign"] made me want to listen to this song over and over again. The depth and the hollowness of the rhythm made the song [his cover of Radiohead's "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"] so much more enjoyable than the original track . . . when I heard this track for the first time, the hairs on my arm started to stiffen and stand up on end. This
album is an excellent way to debut and I know I will be looking forward to
future releases from David Cloyd."
—Andrew Randall
This Is Just A Modern Rock Blog
"David Cloyd’s UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! is the New York City-based singer/songwriter’s utterly impressive debut, featuring nine originals and a Radiohead cover, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.” It’s a pretty potent mixture of pop
and rock, finely crafted and intelligently made. (Listeners may find out how exactly it was made on the entertaining and informative commentary track
that appears at the end of the album, featuring Cloyd and producer Blake Morgan.) The often densely layered music has echoes of the Beatles, Matthew Sweet and Elliott Smith, and stylistically sits comfortably among the work of contemporaries like Rufus Wainwright, Duncan Sheik, and Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror. All those comparisons aside, if there’s a familiarity to Cloyd’s music, it’s the strange way good music, even music new to your ears, already seems familiar. UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! has a hard-edged beauty that makes it one of the first great discoveries of 2009."
—D. Renville
"Having recently departed New York City for Buffalo, you can almost hear the isolation in David Cloyd's debut. UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! jumps between folky, Jeff Buckley-esque ballads, minor-key raucous indie-guitar workouts,
and, errr, a Radiohead cover (that's actually quite great!) . . . and it's a joy to listen to."
—Amelia Raitt
Melodic.net
**** (Four Stars) ". . . an almost perfect album. This new talent David Cloyd, produced by melodic.net favorite Blake Morgan, offers a stylish and at times complex pop journey. With floating melodies built with acoustic elements and technical details, [this is] contemporary pop at its very best. Just listen to the tracks "Give Your Enemies a Chance to Rest" and opening track "Sold Out Bargain" and you will understand . . . Cool pop in a slightly odd and very
personal style, this is a must album."
—Johan Wippsson
New York Magazine
"And for Cloyd, all those possibilities finally seem within reach. He’s been
signed to a New York label, Engine Company, and his first album, UNHAND
ME, YOU FIEND!, is scheduled to come out in January."
—Adam Sternbergh
TheCelebrityCafe.com
"UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! is the debut album from musician David Cloyd.
He uses this album to convey the struggles of everyday life. Cloyd’s voice . . .
was very reminiscent of singers like David Berkeley and Jeff Buckley . . . The lingering guitar line paired with his voice [in "The First Sign"] made me want to listen to this song over and over again. The depth and the hollowness of the rhythm made the song [his cover of Radiohead's "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"] so much more enjoyable than the original track . . . when I heard this track for the first time, the hairs on my arm started to stiffen and stand up on end. This
album is an excellent way to debut and I know I will be looking forward to
future releases from David Cloyd."
—Andrew Randall
This Is Just A Modern Rock Blog
"David Cloyd’s UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! is the New York City-based singer/songwriter’s utterly impressive debut, featuring nine originals and a Radiohead cover, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.” It’s a pretty potent mixture of pop
and rock, finely crafted and intelligently made. (Listeners may find out how exactly it was made on the entertaining and informative commentary track
that appears at the end of the album, featuring Cloyd and producer Blake Morgan.) The often densely layered music has echoes of the Beatles, Matthew Sweet and Elliott Smith, and stylistically sits comfortably among the work of contemporaries like Rufus Wainwright, Duncan Sheik, and Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror. All those comparisons aside, if there’s a familiarity to Cloyd’s music, it’s the strange way good music, even music new to your ears, already seems familiar. UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND! has a hard-edged beauty that makes it one of the first great discoveries of 2009."
—D. Renville
