Cloakroom - Last Leg of the Human Table
As a preamble, to artists and labels: please stop using "glitter" vinyl. Every little metal fleck is a tick or pop. Put glitter on the cover, sure. But don't mix it in, no matter how "cool" you think it looks. Gah.
Anyway, this new (well, March) release from Cloakroom continues their heavy-yet-melodic shoegaze. Solid!
Cloakroom (NWI), NULL (Birmingham, AL), Jon Morrow, Nighdrator, Him Horrison
Kaffeehaus Fabelhaft, Friday, April 4 at 07:00 PM CDT
Cloakroom - NWI gazers
Null - Patently Birmingham vibers
Jon Morrow - Local loverboy indie rock
Nighdrator - Local post apocolyptic gazers
Him Horrison - JOIN THE CULT
Album Review: Cloakroom – ‘Last Leg of the Human Table’
#Cloakroom #LastLegOfTheHumanTable #NewMusic #AlbumReview
Link: https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-cloakroom-last-leg-of-the-human-table
@tpm_rss_bot Doesn't #PamBondi's hair look disheveled? Like she just gave #Trump a #BJ in the #Congressional #Cloakroom and he was trying to #Skullfuck her? I'd check the corner of her mouth for evidence. Maybe swab it.
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How The Beatles, I Think You Should Leave, and more influenced Cloakroom’s new album Last Leg Of The Human Table
Cloakroom release "Story of the Egg" single/video. Announce tour. New album out Feb 28 on Closed Casket. #cloakroom
Indiana shoegaze power trio Cloakroom tell the 'Story Of The Egg'
https://www.stereogum.com/2295949/cloakroom-story-of-the-egg/music/
Someone Needs To Get Punched
Maybe that person is me. Maybe that person is my old boss. Maybe that person was the dude smoking out of an apple on the way to the venue.
Or maybe it’s Cloakroom, who opened the show with their Colorado friendly jams. And by that, I mean you could easily get high and have a good trip to their vibes. But they need a good punch, because that type of music needs a sick ass light show. And their lights were blue. And only blue. And then more blue. Because they had no light tech. Even for a metal show, I was not unhappy with their slow, epic jams. But man, the lack of a light show made it monotonous. I need to punch whomever decided they didn’t need a trippy guide.
Or maybe I need a punch, courtesy of Spy. This was the one time I ever thought a singer would punch me. Not because Spy are assholes, but because they’re just that intense and also they don’t shy away from getting low on stage. Or maybe the drummer needs to get punched because what fucking drummer stage dives? Theirs does. It doesn’t make sense, but it happened, and it confuses me.
Or maybe Dylan Walker of Full Of Hell needs to get punched. And not for any other reason other then he looks like my old boss who stole tens of thousands of dollars from his employees and is now under multiple state investigations. Like, there’s no reason to hate Full Of Hell. The dudes seem nice and the pit was open the entire time. But no one punched Dylan Walker. If someone punched Dylan Walker, by all intents and purposes a fantastic front man, it would have looked like someone punched my old boss. And there’s a chance I would have had a mini orgasm. It’s not Dylan’s fault he looks like my asshole boss plus a bunch of tattoos, but the reality is, he does, and I hold grudges when it comes to egregious theft.
Or maybe I need a good punch, which nearly happened again during Better Lovers. Not because I can’t look past people’s looks, but because the crowd surfers didn’t wanna stop moshing in the photo pit. That was weird. But what wasn’t weird was how Better Lovers are much better live than on record, and they’re fucking good on record. Honestly, listening to their album, I knew they would put on a great show, but what I didn’t realise was they would jump off Summit’s balcony. When I say they’re better live, what I mean is, listen to the album, and then imagine it happening while the singer balloons towards you from the heavens above, literally.
Someone needs to get punched. And as a grown as adult with the ability of introspection, apparently I do according to, well, me above. That sucks. Maybe you do too if you miss this show.
Did you see my sticker at the urinal? Get your own today!
Better Lovers, Full of Hell, SPY, Cloakroom at the Bronson
Bronson Centre Music Theatre, Friday, 15 November (18:30)https://ottawa.askapunk.net/event/better-lovers-full-of-hell-spy-cloakroom-at-the-bronson
@nixCraft
MS AI feeds→ #Chevron & #ExxonMobil
Google AI feeds → #TotalOil
Amazon AI feeds → #Shell & #BP
Chevron is the worst:
#ALEC member, finances climate denial, finances republican politicians, caught in a scandal with Microsoft (#cloakroom project to hold secret meetings between rt-wing politicians corporations)
#ExxonMobil has the worst history:
#ExxonKnew, oil spills, etc.
GardensTale Goes to Roadburn 2024
By GardensTale
Roadburn is a unique festival. Many have no idea what it is, but those who know it often revere it. Starting in 1999 as a traveling stoner festival, it has grown into one of the most adventurous, envelope-pushing celebrations of music worldwide. The line-ups have grown increasingly experimental, and a few years ago the festival adopted the slogan Redefining Heaviness. It’s a mission statement that indicates the wide scope of the festival, exploring other forms of heaviness through the inclusion of genres beyond metal.
My partner and I have visited every Roadburn since 2017, when I last wrote a report on the experience. At the time, we had a sweet arrangement allowing free entry by playing host to a performing artist. Unfortunately, this option no longer exists since the pandemic, so instead we have been inviting random festival goers, which has netted us a steadily growing slew of festival buddies from across Europe. This year was no different, with a few old friends and a few new ones taking up residence in our living room. With the fires of friendship thus stoked, we set off on our sixth voyage into the depths of the heavy underground.
Day 1 (Thursday, 18th of April)
2:34 PM — Got to Hexvessel’s set playing Polar Veil a little late, because one of our guests needed a bracelet still. Good doom, played well, but doesn’t blow me away. Room is crammed, but it’s the first show of the festival.
2:44 PM — Watched a few songs, then went to grab merch. Hoodies were already sold out in several colors.
3:11 PM — Sunrise Patriot Motion is like “what if Ashenspire swallowed a synthwave band” and I like it. It’s a strange contrast but it works.
4:03 PM — Wiegedood were doing a live soundtrack to a Japanese experimental silent film from 1926 and it was as odd as that sounds.
5:44 PM — Grabbed some food during a gap in the schedule and afterward watched a few songs of Sean Mulrooney’s set (from Tau and the Drones of Praise). Dark folk with sparse vocals doesn’t really work unless the vocals are good, and these weren’t.
5:47 PM — Now sitting outside the venue where UBOA is doing her thing and it sounds like two supercomputers on train tracks colliding head-on. Bit above my maximum noise-to-music ratio.
7:16 PM — Inter Arma is pretty dang massive. Sound in the venue isn’t great so the guitars aren’t getting their due but faces are caving in.
8:26 PM — WHITE WARD IS FUCKING AMAZING
8:35 PM — Their saxophone player is in the army so they had to make do with samples, but after 4 canceled appearances due to Covid and the war, it was worth the wait.
9:46 PM — Everyone and the family dog wants to see Chelsea Wolfe, so being 20 minutes early still meant nosebleed spots in the balcony. Wolfe fills the room anyway. I don’t always click with her albums that much, but man she is a force to behold on stage.
10:54 PM — Shows hadn’t left much time for food today, so a big fat doner wrap will have to do. A fellow with too little blood in his alcohol walked into the door and cracked his head on the tiles. Walked away 10 minutes later. Hope he survived.
11:37 PM — Goddamn, Backxwash is heavier with her hip-hop than most bands are playing metal. No one on stage but a black woman in a poofy dress laying down the law over raw industrial beats. Fucking awesome set.
Day 2 (Friday, 19th of April)
3:14 PM — Started off crammed into the room like sardines to hear Fluisteraars do an experimental set: the droniest of drone with birdsong on top. Handled about 10 minutes of that before bailing. Not my jam and way overcrowded.
3:39 PM — Mat McNerney (aka Kvohst of Hexvessel and others) doing a commissioned piece called Music For Gloaming: A Nocturne. Very gothic doom/black mixture, pretty cool set with loads of atmosphere.
6:33 PM — After a meal we went to check out Lucy Kruger + The Lost Boys in the Hall of Fame venue. Very nice weighty dream pop, not unlike Emma Ruth Rundle.
8:31 PM — Good thing we were there because Inter Arma was drafted for a second performance, a secret set of material from their classic albums. Also in the Hall of Fame, the smallest venue of the festival. Absolutely brainscramblingly colossal. Easily the heaviest thing on the festival so far.
9:52 PM — Another secret set, this one by Couch Slut in the skate park. Harsh music under the harsh glare of the tubes. Great performance and the venue brought out their punky DIY spirit, looking forward to seeing them again early tomorrow for their new album playthrough.
Day 3 (Saturday, 20th of April)
1:24 PM — Knoll for breakfast is kind of terrifying and overwhelming but also kind of awesome in a “my skull is now 2D” kind of way.
1:26 PM — Suddenly a wild trumpet appears!
2:25 PM — Couch Slut playing their new album. Raw as all fucking get out. Great show! Excellent live band both performances, visceral as fuck. The frontwoman confessed to only sleeping 90 minutes that night, and occasionally it showed, but by and large, she killed it.
2:50 PM — Oneiroporeia is a super young band and it shows, but their blackened prog-goth sound is solid and promising.
5:04 PM — Roadburn has a queue problem this year, especially today, and primarily at the Spoorzone venues. It’s always unclear when a venue opens and the queues have gotten gigantic. After wasting some time in a queue in an attempt to see Agriculture, we decided to settle in at the Main stage and wait for The Keening.
5:52 PM — The Keening is as beautiful and fragile as the titular Little Bird, but could use a few more dynamic stanzas to balance out the mid-weight atmodoomfolk a little. Still quite pretty though.
8:37 PM — Between rain and queues we settled on Ni in the Paradox jazz club. Super skronky instrumental jazzmathcore is healing my soul right now.
10:44 PM — Ni turned out one of the best things I’ve seen at the festival this year. Cult Leader’s acidic sludgy hardcore made a run for the podium, but their gothic-doom passages just aren’t as captivating. When these guys go full blast though, they’re absolutely vicious.
11:32 PM — In the spirit of trying new things, we ended the day with a few Frail Body tracks. Safe to say that screamo is not my new passion.
Day 4 (Sunday, 21st of April)
3:05 PM — We dragged our exhausted husks to the Terminal for the final day. Kicking off with Laster is a good start. The weird psych black band with ghoulish masks are pretty much studio-tight. It does feel a little clinical or impersonal as a live show but it’s a very solid performance.
4:47 PM — Today really is black metal day at the Terminal. No complaints from me! Verwoed tears down the place with their ritualistic and reasonably melodic take. Good sound and a spirited performance. The Dutch black metal scene proves to be thriving once more.
6:27 PM — After all the doom and gloom, a little black thrash that’s all riffs and no brakes is just the ticket, and Devil Master hits the spot. Doing the second half of the set sitting on the floor by the wall because my feet are withered stumps at this point.
6:31 PM — I’m also surprised by the amount of delighted surprised faces I get from bartenders when I show them my order on my phone screen. Is it really that uncommon? It’s so much simpler than shouting!
8:32 PM — Biological necessities (aka food) and a queue meant missing the first half of Fluisteraars’ full black metal set. This is a shame because fuck me this is one of the best performances of the whole festival. It’s apparently only the second time the band performs live and they put most of their peers to shame.
10:18 PM — Dödsrit led a 50-minute war band to raid and pillage the Terminal. Baller set, tons of energy and extremely fun! Sound was a bit off, as is tradition in this venue, but it didn’t spoil a good time. Thought this would be the last show for us, but in the interest of a last drink with a few friends we went to…
11:29 PM — …the main stage for Cloakroom. Not a terribly engaging band even by shoegaze standards, but a nice lullaby to sing the festival to sleep.
Between collaborations, commissioned pieces, secret sets, and integral album presentations, not to mention a lot of bands that would not fit in at many other festivals, Roadburn’s line-up is always unique. I’d never have found bands like Ni or Lucy Kruger without the concerted efforts of Walter Hoeijmakers and Becky Laverty to keep Roadburn one of the most forward-thinking festivals out there. I found some new favorites and checked out some bands I knew only by reputation. But best of all is experiencing it all with an ever-expanding gaggle of friends. We’ve rarely watched a show with just the two of us; nearly every time we had the company of friends, and come rain or queues, that is the best way to experience this festival.
#Agriculture #Ashenspire #Backxwash #ChelseaWolfe #Cloakroom #CouchSlut #CultLeader #DevilMaster #Dödsrit #EmmaRuthRundle #Fluisteraars #FrailBody #Hexvessel #InterArma #Knoll #Laster #LucyKrugerTheLostBoys #ni #Oneiroporeia #SunrisePatriotMotion #TauAndTheDronesOfPraise #TheKeening #UBOA #Verwoed #WhiteWard #Wiegedood
The Armed, Chat Pile, Ragana, King Woman, more at Knockdown Center on BV Presale (password here)
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-armed-chat-pile-ragana-king-woman-more-at-knockdown-center-on-bv-presale-password-here/
#brooklynvegan_category_music #Heavy_Metal #Music #Chat_Pile #Cloakroom #Couch_Slut #King_Woman #Ragana #The_Armed
The Armed, Chat Pile, Ragana, King Woman & more playing Outline at Knockdown Center (BV Presale)
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-armed-chat-pile-ragana-king-woman-more-playing-outline-at-knockdown-center-bv-presale/
#brooklynvegan_category_music #Heavy_Metal #Music #bvhome #Chat_Pile #Cloakroom #Couch_Slut #King_Woman #Outline #punk #Ragana #The_Armed
Approx. 100 items of luggage stashed in the #FOSDEM #Cloakroom in the first hour, another 100 in the second.
@braincell That’s the hardest part of it. If you are refueling your car, you would get a long list of wrongdoing at every single gas station.
I can look at the data & see that the worst of the worst is Chevron due to their ALEC membership and various scandals they were caught in like the #cloakroom project.
So the system would need the smarts to filter out the noise. I don’t have an AI background but would think that would be involved in checking relative magnitudes of contributions.
திருச்செந்தூர் சுப்பிரமணியசுவாமி கோயிலில் வளர்ச்சி பணிகள் – கைபேசி பெட்டகம் திறப்பு! அமைச்சர் சேகர்பாபு
#Tiruchendur #murugan #Temple #MobilePhone #vaultroom #SafeCustody #CloakRoom @PKSekarbabu@twitter.com
A new update this is the cloakroom #rillhouseslapton it’s now a Dennis the Menace and Gnasher room 🤩 Inspired by our Rupert Bear cloakroom at #whitebeamwoodslapton it is not wallpaper but individual pages from annuals #DennisTheMenace #gnasher #theBeano #walldecor #cloakroom #cartoons #featurewall
@chris I wouldn’t care about the speeds. The most important thing here is that you ditched one of the most unethical telecoms in the US. #Comcast funds #AEI (thus #climateDenial & anti- #netneutrality), funded pro-forced-birth politicians, got caught paying $200 to the #cloakroom project, sponsors #FoxNews, published 200,000 unlisted phone №s¹, spent $200k to fight privacy law in CA.
