Cobourg-formed, Toronto-based duo cleopatrick have announced the release of their upcoming sophomore album, previewed today by new single "PLEASE."
The follow-up to their 2021 debut BUMMER, FAKE MOON arrives on March 14 through nowhere special recordings / Thirty Tigers. It was recorded with multi-instrumentalist Mike Haldeman and producer Philip Weinrobe at the latter's studio in Brooklyn.
"It's the most real thing we could have made," guitarist-vocalist Luke Gruntz explained. "I wanted to do something beautiful. It's a struggle between control and surrender, individuality and belonging. It's where we are now. This album is one of the clearest steps forward we've ever taken. We're immensely proud of it, and we can't wait to share it with everyone."
Of the new single, Gruntz added, "'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 unravelling 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 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 overcast, mucky "PLEASE" arrives alongside a video shot by Ryan Faist, a.k.a. boy wonder. Check that out below, along with the album tracklist details.
FAKE MOON:
1. HEAT DEATH
2. BAD GUY
3. HAMMER
4. PLEASE
5. SOFTDRIVE
6. CHEW
7. BIG MACHINE
8. SARAH
9. FAKE MOON
10. LOVE YOU