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Artist......: Crack Cloud
Album.......: Red Mile
Label.......: Jagjaguwar
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: JAG463
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2024-10-19
Str.date....: 2024-07-26
Quality.....: 846 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://www.crackcloud.ca
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1. Crack of Life 5:51
2. The Medium 4:36
3. Blue Kite 6:11
4. Lack of Lack 4:43
5. Epitaph 4:30
6. I Am (I Was) 5:34
7. Ballad of Billy 5:25
8. Lost on the Red Mile 8:16
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,: The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade :,
: ago as a proxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary, where two :
:' EPs and their accompanying visual pieces were created during ':
,: this time. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver. :,
: It was after the move that the band produced their astounding :
:' 2020 album Pain Olympics, and their 2022 follow up, Tough Baby. ':
,: All at once, their vision became expansive, cinematic, and :,
: precarious. :
:' ':
,: Now, their third full-length studio album, Red Mile, acts as :,
: both a tribute and a homecoming. Members have since left :
:' Vancouver and returned to Calgary; returned to the long stretch ':
,: of land colloquially referred to as the red mile. But what of :,
: the time away from home? After a decade of personal and :
:' collective growth, what does home even mean? To Crack Cloud, ':
,: this is the liminal message demanding to be explored throughout :,
: Red Mile. The throughline thread of samsara rebirth and life s :
:' cyclical pattern weaving together the eight tracks. ':
,: :,
: A departure from the hermetic, multi-year gestation of Pain :
:' Olympics and 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.Crack Cloud have learned to :,
: concentrate their multi-hyphenate energy, re-emerging as a lean, :
:' focused rock outfit producing their most mature and vital work ':
,: yet. The sprawling, novelistic structures of their previous :,
: records have been harnessed and condensed, but never boiled :
:' down. The band is derisive as ever to deal in superficiality. ':
,: Through playful melodies and elliptical guitar soliloquy they :,
: deliver a record of exceptional depth and unprecious warmth; :
:' creating a lived-in feel not dissimilar to a loved picture ':
,: frame: a captured still, 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 group s own :,
: mythology. The lyrics are cutting but merciful, with a sharp :
:' self-awareness that never slides into self-satisfaction. Crack ':
,: Cloud as artists are as 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. :,
: :
:' Red Mile s eight anthems expand, wind and fold in on themselves ':
,: in equal measure. They deploy gorgeous string sections, desert :,
: psych, sax blasts, group chants and punk snarls. In one moment, :
:' Blue Kite might recall Richard Hell; in the very next Paris ':
,: 1919. :,
: :
:' I Am (I Was), is a neu canticle about learning to live with ':
,: the void and finding meaning there regardless. The song blooms :,
: again and again in your ears, shapeshifting from a driving :
:' acoustic strum and jaunty piano into a thrilling motorik group ':
,: chorus. :,
: :
:' Red Mile s de facto thesis statement The Medium is itself a ':
,: rock song meditation: an ode to the form and its practitioners. :,
: This genre that typical, repeatable, corporatized as it can be :
:' somehow still has the power to help us live through life. We ':
,: see that the dusty sentiment of I love rock and roll can be :,
: exhumed, taken apart, and stitched back together. It s a song :
:' guided by faith if the medium helps us proclaim our love ':
,: today, it s worth protecting from derision tomorrow. Crack :,
: Cloud s Red Mile is a rock record one made by people who know :
:' exactly how much that can mean. ':
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