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Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+CRACK CLOUDA departure from the hermetic, multi-year gestation of their astounding 2020 album Pain Olympics, and their 2022 follow-up work, Tough Baby, Red Mile is the product of swift, group collaboration. Recorded predominantly between the outskirts of Joshua Tree, California, and Calgary, Alberta, the resulting album is informed by a bittersweet melange of new beginnings and familiar places. The sprawling, novelistic structures of their previous albums are condensed, but the group is unwilling as ever to deal in superficiality. Through playful melodies and elliptical guitar soliloquy, they deliver a record of exceptional depth and distinctly unprecious warmth. The records lived-in feel is less a comfy armchair and more a picture frame carefully mended with electrical tape.Much of the angst which lends their earlier work a caustic urgency has fallen away, replaced by a soulful but relentless introspection. The eight songs contemplate physical and psychic roadblocks, the experience of aging out of chaos, adjusting to strange new hopes, and making peace with the groups own mythology. The lyrics are cutting but merciful. The songs are self-aware, meta statements nods to the tropes of punk rock and of a life lived in music. Crack Cloud as artists are critical and ultimately as forgiving of themselves as they are the melting world around them. The songs balance an easy charm and cathartic power: affirming life without denying death. Crack Clouds Red Mile is a rock record - one made by people who know exactly how much that can mean.
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