Omo Cloud “Mausoleum” (Dusty Mars)
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Omo Cloud “Mausoleum” (Dusty Mars Records/Silver Girl)
Label: Dusty Mars Records / Silver Girl Records
Genre: Indie Rock / Baroque Pop
Hometown: San Diego, CA
RIYL: Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, Big Thief, David Bowie
“Ultimate Love” (Single) Hi Resolution Download HERE
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A mausoleum can be a lonesome place — cool and lonely and sad. But in the parlance of Omo Cloud — a.k.a. Cole De La Isla — it’s also a monument to what has come before. A way of letting go — and the title of their debut album, out via Dusty Mars Records on June 27th.
“This music was born out of the pandemic — and so much therapy,” De La Isla says. “The record is called Mausoleum because I'm trying to encapsulate this very long part of my life that is now closed, that I'm moving beyond — but I can always return to it and reflect on it.”
The non-binary singer-songwriter grew up in San Diego the child of two musicians, fed on a steady diet of Radiohead, Wilco, and David Bowie as they hung out in vocal booths and studios with the pair. Although they got their first guitar at 14, De La Isla was initially an actor; they left high school at 16 to move to L.A. and pursue that dream. But there was a pall over the profession for the teen, who says they were sexually abused by a leader of a Christian youth theater company as a child. “While I was never a true believer, this experience shattered my relationship to ‘faith’ of any kind,” they say. And this experience — along with the lack of control they felt in the acting world — led them to take control of their own creativity, feeding it, instead, into achingly gorgeous music that ruminates on everything from gender identity to religion to romantic love.
The result is Mausoleum, 11 celestially beautiful tracks that careen between sweet and sorrowful, produced, in part, with De La Isla’s long-time collaborator Andy Walsh. And, yes, although the songs are informed by De La Isla’s childhood trauma, they’re about more than that. They’re a reclamation — and a balm to anyone who has felt similarly lost. “It's taken a really long time to get to a place where I feel like I have a voice again,” De La Isla says. “I also don't want it to overly inform a listener. The music belongs to them.”
Take single Ultimate Love, a gloriously grunge-tinged take on what the titular emotion is — whether in the religious sense or the romantic. “There’s a kind of despair that you can feel when you are brought up in a religious space — belief and disbelief. Trust and distrust,” De La Isla says. “I was doing a lot of work redefining what love is and what love can be. And ultimate love, that's silly. Community is important — platonic love. It’s not all or nothing.”
“I feel like I spent a lot of my teenhood being very angsty and existential and cynical in a lot of ways, but I don't want that to be the takeaway of the record at all,” De La Isla adds. “I feel the takeaway is actually a very optimistic one. We're all capable of growth and change, and it is a lot of work, but it is worth it. I want people to trust their gut. I want to help people connect with hard emotions — and I want people to be inspired.”
And, so, we’re not buried with our past — but we can visit it from time to time and see how far we’ve come.
