Cloud, In My Dream | Song Review

[otw_shortcode_dropcap label=”C” size=”large” border_color_class=”otw-no-border-color” shadow=”shadow” square=”square”]loud, the Japanese guitarist and songwriter, has put together something special here with “In My Dream” that rewards patience. The track builds deliberately across three distinct sections, the guitar growing louder and more insistent as it goes, and by the time it fully opens up you’re already too deep in to step back.

The lyrical idea at the centre of this is one most people will recognise even if they’ve never articulated it quite this way. That gap between who someone is in your head, in your dreams, and who they actually are in real life. Cloud moves between “in my dream” and “in my head” throughout, and the distinction matters. Dreams flatter. Reality complicates. The song sits right in that uncomfortable space between the two and doesn’t try to resolve it, which is the right call.

You can hear the Nirvana influence clearly, that push and pull between quiet and loud, stillness and movement, that Cobain used to such devastating effect. Cloud applies the same logic here and it works because it feels genuinely felt rather than borrowed. Luis Gerardo Moreno’s guitar work adds real texture alongside Cloud’s own playing, and Alex DP on drums keeps the whole thing grounded when it threatens to spiral. The three of them clearly understood what the song needed.

“In My Dream” is the kind of track that makes more sense on the third or fourth listen than it does on the first. Give it the time it deserves.

You can take a listen to ‘In My Dream‘ by Cloud here. 

Four out of five – George James. 

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