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# Cloudkicker - Hold On
- URL: https://metalmenu.co.uk/cloudkicker-hold-on/
- Published: 2025-05-27T23:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T00:40:44.000Z
- Author: Natalie Gray
- Tags: Music, Cloudkicker, Metal, prog, math rock, post rock, rock

Sometimes I hear cool new music before it hits the mainstream, and sometimes I hear it 17 years after it came out. This is the latter.

[Cloudkicker](https://linktr.ee/cloudkicker) makes atmospheric, instrumental prog-/post-/math-rock, and the first fifteen seconds in [Hold On](https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/track/hold-on)–the first track on 2008's [The Map is Not the Territory](https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/the-map-is-not-the-territory)–are a great subversion of expectation:

[The Map is Not the Territory by Cloudkicker](https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/the-map-is-not-the-territory) 

I'd never heard of Cloudkicker before, but [Dysphoria](https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/track/dysphoria) appeared on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist this week and it grabbed my attention.

[The Discovery by Cloudkicker](https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/the-discovery) 

I normally put recommendation playlists like that on in the background, and if a track makes me go "ooh!" I tend to delve deeper!

[CloudkickerMy name is Ben Sharp and I have been making music as Cloudkicker since 2007.![](https://metalmenu.co.uk/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon.png)Cloudkicker![](https://metalmenu.co.uk/content/images/thumbnail/0017100407_23.jpg)](https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/music)