View basket “Midnight Run” has been added to your basket. Red Mile Crack Cloud SKU: 24.00 27.00 £24.00 - £27.00 £24.00 - £27.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Jagjaguwar Released Date: 26th July 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Red Mile quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Crack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band: both profound and grand, vaporous and elusive. The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as a proxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs and accompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residency known as Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver, working out of harm reduction centres and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety, self-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethos for Crack Cloud. It was during these years that the band produced their astounding 2020 album Pain Olympics. At once, their vision became expansive, cinematic. Now, ‘Red Mile’ is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned to Calgary. But Calgary / home has become a liminal space, a place of flux. After a decade of personal and collective growth, what does home even mean? ‘Red Mile’ is, for them, something like samsara: a return and a rebirth. ‘Red Mile’’s sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, street bound sonics of Crack Cloud’s prior material. Fizzling synths intertwine with chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may find a Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only to watch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars – alternately lilting, scuzzy and soaring – ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces. In 2024, the cumulative effect is (in rock instrumentation terms) naturalistic. Any whiff of embalmed nostalgia is absent. Even the close of the album – a winding, almost Jerry Garcia guitar noodle that leads us out of ‘Red Mile’ – is delivered without sentimentality. Principal songwriter Zach Choy’s lyrics are cutting but merciful, with a sharp selfawareness that never slides into self-satisfaction. 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. Recorded predominantly between the outskirts of Joshua Tree California, and Calgary, Alberta, this record is informed by a bittersweet mélange of old and new. The sprawling, novelistic structures of their previous albums are condensed and sharpened, while maintaining their refusal to delve into superficiality. Through playful melodies and elliptical guitar soliloquy, they deliver a final product of exceptional depth and distinctly unprecious warmth. Crack Cloud have produced a mature, vital work that interrogates the platitudes of the rock-n-roll lifestyle, but ultimately exalts its sacredness. ‘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 the dusty sentiment of ‘I love rock and roll’ 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. We live in an era where music seems to love hitting its head against the wall. Crack Cloud’s ‘Red Mile’ is the sound – the feeling! – of the bricks giving way. LP available on Freefall Blue coloured vinyl and black vinyl. Artist Crack Cloud Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Jagjaguwar Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Crack Of Life The Medium Blue Kite Lack Of Lack Epitaph I Am (I Was) Ballad Of Billy Lost On The Red Mile Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Crack Cloud and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Crack Cloud Pain Olympics Rock And Pop | Tin Angel | 1LP Released 17th July 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crack Cloud Pain Olympics £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Tin Angel SKU: MM003LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dead Best Second Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP Released 12th January 2024 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dead Best Second £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG279 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Prophets Of Rage Prophets Of Rage Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Caroline International | 1LP Released 13th September 2017 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Prophets Of Rage Prophets Of Rage £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Caroline International SKU: FAN00168 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Grand-Pop Eight Nights Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Specialist Subject | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th September 2017 £6.99 £13.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Grand-Pop Eight Nights £6.99 £13.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Specialist Subject SKU: SPS052 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th September 2017 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View TEKE::TEKE Shirushi Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Kill Rock Stars | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 7th May 2021 £20.00 Select options TEKE::TEKE Shirushi £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Kill Rock Stars Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th May 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Sex Swing Golden Triangle Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | God Unknown Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th October 2024 £20.00 - £21.00 Select options Sex Swing Golden Triangle £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: God Unknown Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th October 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Boyscott Spellbound Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Topshelf | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th October 2024 £25.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Boyscott Spellbound £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Topshelf SKU: LPTSR283C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th October 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mekons, The Never Been In A Riot / 32 Weeks / Heart And Soul Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Superior Viaduct | 7", Single Released 25th June 2021 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mekons, The Never Been In A Riot / 32 Weeks / Heart And Soul £9.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Superior Viaduct SKU: SV148 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 25th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Propagandhi Victory Lap (RSD Stores Exclusive) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 29th September 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Propagandhi Victory Lap (RSD Stores Exclusive) £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092754049 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ride Weather Diaries Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Wichita | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th June 2017 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ride Weather Diaries £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Wichita SKU: WEBB510LP Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Courettes, The Shake! c/w You Woo Me Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Damaged Goods | 7", Coloured Vinyl Released 16th February 2024 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Courettes, The Shake! c/w You Woo Me £8.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Damaged Goods SKU: DAMGOOD612 Formats: 7", Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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