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General Contact:
cloudbellytheband [at] gmail.com

Festivals:
Bill Hutchison
Atomic Music Group

bhutchison [at] atomicmusicgroup.com

MGMT & US Booking:
Taylor Graves

mgmt [at] cloudbellytheband.com

Cloudbelly is a Western Massachusetts-based indie-folk band known for their emotionally charged songwriting and expansive, chameleonic sound. Centered around Corey Laitman’s poetic lyrics and haunting vocals, the band draws from alt-folk, art-rock, and ambient textures to create music that feels nostalgic, cinematic, and raw. Their 2024 album i know i know i know earned national acclaim—named one of the Top Albums of the Year by The Boston Globe and nominated for Album of the Year at the Boston Music Awards. Most recently, the band performed for a sold-out crowd at The Sinclair alongside Tiny Desk Contest winner’s Cure For Paranoia as a part of the NPR Tiny Desk On The Road tour. With a lineup featuring guitarist Sam Perry, drummer/producer Nate Mondschein, and guitarist/vocalist Ciarra Fragale, Cloudbelly delivers live performances that are both emotionally immersive and disarmingly playful. heir next album, Throwing The Game, is due in late 2026.  The first four singles and their accompanying videos have earned praise from wonderful outlets like Under The Radar, Atwood, Glide, mp3Hugger, and have charted in the top 25 of NACC radio.

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“Throw The Game” is something of a narrative outlier…

Unlike many of Cloudbelly’s tracks, the perspective here inhabits not the writer, but the mind of a past lover, offering a window into their experience of trying – and failing – to connect with their partner. Set in the first few minutes of a long road trip, they sing “In the passenger seat, you are frantically weaving / your words like you’re trying to wrestle a demon” -- a struggle mirrored by the crests and swells of the track’s ever-contorting sonic landscape. But rather than end in a place of conflict, this half-imagined narrator concludes with a compassionate plea to set down the need to control and defend and, for lack of a better phrase, “Throw The Game.” 

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  • “Cloudbelly‘s third full-length, Throwing The Game, promises to take the indie folk formula of its predecessor i know i know i know and push it to the edges of the genre, creating something sprawling and shape-shifting in order to explore the full contours of an emotional landscape which stretches both back into the past and out in the future.”

    Various Small Flames (2026)

  • “Cyclical guitars, loping drums, and ascendant strings give the track a steady, dreamlike pull, widening an intimate memory into a meditation on what happens when the future we counted on starts changing before our eyes.”

    Atwood Magazine (2026)

  • “Like the sonic landscape, the lyrics build depth and dimension each time you hear the song.”

    Glide Magazine (2026)

  • "The tender intimate arrangements along with the gorgeous strings combine to a powerful effective delivery that hits you where it counts."

    We All Want Someone To Shout For (2024)

  • “What’s exciting about Cloudbelly is that their intention is so clear in every note…You’ll want to listen over and over again”

    Glide Magazine (2023)

  • “This is not an album intended for a drive-by glance – dive head-first and explore its darkness and depth, as these are not fleeting strengths.”

    — Psychadelic Baby Magazine (2024)

  • “Laitman’s melodies are equally lyrical, yearning and gently euphoric.”

    Amelia Mason, WBUR (2024)

  • “Dreaming made possible again”

    KH, mp3Hugger (2024)

  • "...a band equally capable of expressive melodic highs, satisfyingly distorted textures, and tangled lyrical poetics."

    Under The Radar (2026)