Ground-breaking, JUNO Award-nominated and SOCAN Award-winning post-rock duo cleopatrick are excited to announce the forthcoming release of their highly-anticipated sophomore album, FAKE MOON, set to arrive via Nowhere Special Recordings/Thirty Tigers on March 14. Pre-save the album here.
In tandem with the album reveal, the band is thrilled to debut their latest single and video, “PLEASE”. “PLEASE”, which follows the dynamic debut single “HAMMER”, is a track that delves into the allure of groupthink, celebrating the comfort of relinquishing individuality to merge with the collective. Musically, it deteriorates over time, with the sound slowly fragmenting into a murky digital haze, reflecting the gradual erosion of personal identity in the pursuit of unity.
Discussing the single and video, guitarist/vocalist Luke Gruntz notes, “‘PLEASE’ is about the implicit forces that pull us to belong – 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 ‘LAPTOP ROCK’.
The video was shot by our friend and longtime collaborator Ryan Faist AKA boywonder. We wanted the video to look like a scene from a movie, more than a music video, showing a young guy experiencing the pull of the collective.”
