Cleopatrick Announce Sophomore Album 'Fake Moon', Share New Single Please
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Ryan Faist
Cleopatrick have announced their sophomore album.
The Canadian rock duo will release 'Fake Moon' via their own Nowhere Special Recordings label on March 14, following up their 2021 debut 'Bummer' and 2022's 'Doom' EP.
Recorded at producer Philip Weinrobe's Brooklyn studio with esteemed guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Haldeman, the nine-song LP was teased in November with the single Hammer. Today, vocalist and guitarist Luke Gruntz and drummer Ian Fraser have shared a second teaser in the form of Please, a hushed, brooding slow-burner that comes with a Ryan Faist-directed video, below.
"It's more than just a change sonically," Gruntz said. "The album instinctively paints a picture of something meaningful; all the songs ask questions or surrender to uncertainty."
On the track, Gruntz commented: "Please is about the implicit forces that pull us to belong. It's about the comforting and consuming magnetism of the collective. It's kind of a love song. An acknowledgement and acceptance of something fundamental.
"There's a gradual surrender and slow unraveling in the recording — like the sound itself is subject to the same cosmic pull I'm singing about. By the end of the track, all the instruments are being torn apart digitally. Phil (Weinrobe) had almost the entire mix running through an old Roland 303 sampler that mangled the audio into this beautiful, slushy mess of missing information and usurped data. and so the concept loops back on itself eternally.
"I like to call this sound "LAPTOP ROCK"
Cleopatrick have a UK and Ireland tour scheduled for March, with stops lined up in Brighton, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London, where they'll play Electric Brixton. Tickets are on sale now.
'Fake Moon' tracklist:
1. Bad Guy
2. Hammer
3. Please
4. Softdrive
5. Chew
6. Big Machine
7. Sarah
8. Fake Moon
9. Love You
cleopatrick Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue March 18 2025 - BRIGHTON Chalk
Wed March 19 2025 - BRISTOL SWX
Fri March 21 2025 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Sat March 22 2025 - MANCHESTER Manchester Academy 2
Sun March 23 2025 - DUBLIN Academy
Tue March 25 2025 - GLASGOW SWG3
Wed March 26 2025 - LEEDS Leeds University Stylus
Fri March 28 2025 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute2
Sat March 29 2025 - LONDON Electric Brixton
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