All three members of Cloakroom were factory workers before coming together in 2012 to create their self-described “stoner-emo”. A visceral sound that sits somewhere between foggy shoegaze and ’90s emo, the trio dropped their debut, Further Out, in 2015 before signing with Relapse Records to release Dissolution Wave (2022) – a concept album that imagines a world depleted of art and philosophy, where music is key to our survival. As well as opening shows for Brand New and Russian Circles, the band have co-headlined a European tour with Caspian.

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Lost Meaning

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From beyond the Spire and the Ward of Song echoes Cloakroom’s tertiary LP, Dissolution Wave.

It’s like this: The concept of Cloakroom’s third album is a space western in which an act of theoretical physics—the dissolution wave—wipes out all of humanity’s existing art and abstract thought. In order to keep the world spinning on its axis, songsmiths must fill the ether with their compositions. Meanwhile, the aforementioned Spire and Ward of Song act as a filter for human imagination: Only the best material can pass through the filter and keep the world turning.

This is the philosophical universe that Cloakroom guitarist/vocalist Doyle Martin conceived as a way of processing the last few years. “We lost a couple of close friends over the course of writing this record,” he says. “Dreaming up another world felt easier to digest than the real nitty-gritty we’re immersed in every day.”

With lyrics based on an imagined cosmology, Dissolution Wave also marks a grand expansion of Cloakroom’s dreamy space-rock palette. “We often get lumped in with stoner rock bands—and I love that,” bassist Bobby Markos offers, “but at the same time, we can do an acoustic set. If we wanted to make a song completely out of synthesizers, we could. So our approach to Dissolution Wave was to do everything we’ve ever wanted to do.”

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