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CRACK CLOUD

f Canadian art-punk collective Crack Cloud prove one thing on their latest LP, , it's that both nostalgia and upheaval can work constructively in tandem. Even more so than their forward-thinking predecessor, 2020's , they opt to go the opposite direction of many of their punk contemporaries, leaning fully into the grandiose, maximalist stylings worthy of a sequence. But where the imagery of employed sci-fi takes you to a more grounded scenery: the bedroom altar where many incumbent dreams are hatched.

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