CLOAKROOM ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM + SHARE “BAD LARRY” VIDEO/SINGLE
CLOSED CASKET
For Cloakroom the world of modernity is in polycrisis and America has lost its soul. Narrative fetishism is all too usual of a literary mechanism for Cloakroom. If you listen closely you can hear the concern; not just for the teetering social structure but for what it means to be human and the high cost of the human experience.
The Indiana three return next month with their next studio album, Last Leg Of The Human Table – the follow up to 2022’s post-apocalyptic space western Dissolution Wave, and label debut for Closed Casket Activities. Each song showcases Cloakroom’s genre-bending capabilities and seemingly vast array of influences; whether it be the sampling of the post-disco Detroit group Was (Not Was) or the lifted NASA recording of the humming of Saturn’s rings. Recorded in December of 2023 at Electrical Audio in Chicago and Rec Room Recording in Des Plaines, Illinois, engineer Zac Montez (Whirr, Turnover) aided in smoothing out the rough and turning up the quiet.
Pop, shoegaze, doom, post-punk, folk only scratch the surface on Cloakroom’s shortest yet most essential release to date. Its title Last Leg Of The Human Table may sound sardonic in its nature, but this group has always found some wonder in the scurrying chaos of modern life. In 37 minutes, the album imbues a sense of responsibility to the listener as if one leg were to falter, the whole table will fall.
Today Cloakroom share lead single and video “Bad Larry”. Lyricist and guitarist Doyle Martin explains, “It was written about a fabled character out of folklore like ‘Diamond Joe’ composed by Baldwin ‘Butch’ Hawes.. if that’s who even wrote that song first. Bad Larry roams free and wants for nothing; living a life of experience and lives by his own rules and dying on his own terms; a life to vilify or envy.”
Last Leg Of The Human Table sees its release February 28 via Closed Casket, pre-order/pre-save it here.
After wrapping an extensive North American tour with Full of Hell last month, Cloakroom have announced a special Chicago album release show happening April 12 at Empty Bottle. More dates and news to come. For updates follow Cloakroom on Instagram HERE.
Cloakroom
Last Leg Of The Human Table
(Closed Casket)
Release Date: February 28, 2025
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Background Photo Credit: Vin Romero
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