Official press release:
Northwest Indiana’s Cloakroom have announced that their second album, Time Well is set for an August 18 release on CD/2xLP/Digital formats, marking the band’s debut for the esteemed Relapse Records.
Watch the official video for “Seedless Star” via Noisey.
Grandiose and deeply insular, Time Well is a work that transcends simple genre descriptors as the trio prove dually capable of conjuring lumbering walls of sound as well as forlorn Americana (as predicted by a recent Songs: Ohia cover the band posted to Bandcamp). Cloakroom occupies a space between worlds, crafting its unique brand of thoughtfully heavy music, something Relapse has long specialized in.
Time Well will be released worldwide August 18 on CD/2xLP/Digital via Relapse Records. Physical pre-orders and exclusive bundles are currently available via Relapse.com and digital pre-orders are available via Bandcamp.
For the new album, the trio (consisting of vocalist-guitarist Doyle Martin, bassist Robert Markos, and drummer Brian Busch) opted to explore their shared creative space by building their own studio, transforming their practice space into a sonic laboratory in which they could immerse themselves in every aspect of the creative process. Once the studio had completed its transition it became a workspace that was essential to the creation of Time Well, sheltering the band from the outside world as they immersed themselves in the songs and pushed sounds to their furthest limits.
Martin commented:
“We could work at all hours of the night and pick up where we left off days later. We vaulted the ceiling, amassed some gear with a little help from Relapse, and, after laying a rat’s nest of cables through the place, we started to record.”
Time Well track listing:
1. “Gone But Not Entirely”
2. “Big World”
3. “Concrete Gallery”
4. “Seedless Star”
5. “Sickle Moon Blues”
6. “Hymnal”
7. “The Sun Won’t Less Us Go”
8. “Time Well”
9. “52Hz Whale”
10. “The Passenger”
