The Limerent,  the debut EP of songwriter Bella Cloud, newly released in 2025 is a sonic exploration into the condition of limerence and the process of losing onself in the act of loving another. The arc of the EP  loosely  follows each stage of limerence-infatuation, crystallization, and deterioration. Beginning with the folk rock track Two Good Actors embodies pure want through its swooping viola and crunchy rootsy guitars. Lapse of The Truth brings listeners into the internal state and seeks to mirror the rounded cycles we find ourselves in through it's shoegazey guitar riffs and energetic beat. The third track You seeks to convey the distance and the unshakable feeling of being the footnote in the life of the person who fills chapters for you.  Continuing with the penultimate and melancholic chamber pop ballad Littlest Death that reckons with the toll of limerance: the willingness to die at the one you love's hands as long as they are the one weilding the knife. Finally, ending with a quaint piano rendition of the opening track offering a reflective and new perspective.  The songs were honed through a year of live performance with her band in San Diego culminating in the recording of the EP in the end of 2024 produced, mixed, and recorded by Andrew Walsh along with collaborators Rebecca Sykes, Spencer Dugan, and Diego Tidwell.

Her songs arrive through fruitful vessels such as open tunings, warm lamplight on a winter night, and are further elaborated through orchestral and standard band outfits. Bella Cloud hopes her music lands with audiences who enjoy folk rock, chamber pop, and indie rock.

With roots in San Diego, USA, and currently based in Melbourne/Naarm, Australia, Cloud is at heart a wanderer. Consequently, she is most often found in many places throughout the world when she is able: playing her songs to those with open ears, resting by a river, making cyanotype lyric prints, or off attempting to climb some mountain.