Toronto duo cleopatrick today announce their sophomore album FAKE MOON – pre-save here. The announcement also comes alongside brand new single and music video ‘PLEASE’ – listen here.
CLEOPATRICK’s sophomore album, FAKE MOON, is a daring leap into new territory for the Cobourg Ontario-based post-rock duo. It’s a record spanning time, influence, and sound, blending lo-fi intimacy with grand, expansive production. For Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser, this album represents more than just a sonic shift – it’s a bold solidification of their ever-developing creative identity.
New track ‘PLEASE’ is a love song about the implicit magnetic pull of groupthink and the immense comfort that comes with forfeiting one’s individuality to belong to a team.
Returning refreshed from a creative breather, after the rigorous post-pandemic touring of debut LP BUMMER, the newest record is a captivating collision of lo-fi grit, quiet introspection, and overt existentialism. Anchored in refusal of conformity, and captured with what can only be described as the audio equivalent to Playstation 1 graphics – FAKE MOON navigates power, vulnerability, and the complexities of individual identity with both rawness and precision.
FAKE MOON is cleopatrick at their most adventurous. Look overhead and perhaps you’ll spot the orbiting influences of Radiohead’s experimental brilliance, the grounded surrealism of Dijon’s Absolutely, or the raw intimacy of favourites since high school, Califone. “We’re just trusting our creative compass,” they say. “I actually tried to write BUMMER 2 at first – but it immediately felt as if I was putting on the costume of a 23 year old me. It wasn’t coming out honest.”
The band have also announced a UK & IE headline tour for March where they will take to the stage in Brighton, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and play their biggest London show to date at Electric Brixton. Newly energised, cleopatrick are ready to head back out, not only sharing what they have been up to in the studio, but also re-interpreting the music fans have come to love over the past few years.
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