Indiana trio, Cloakroom, are getting all set to drop their next studio album, Last Leg of the Human Table. The follow up to 2022’s post-apocalyptic space western, Dissolution Wave, it arrives February 28, via Closed Casket Activities records as their label debut. They have just shared the record’s new single, “Bad Larry,” along with a music video. Watch it below and read more.
Pre-order/pre-save Last Leg of the Human Table here: https://www.lastlegofthehumantable.com/
Lyricist and guitarist Doyle Martin explains of “Bad Larry,” “It was written about a fabled character out of folklore like ‘Diamond Joe’ composed by Baldwin ‘Butch’ Hawes.. if that’s who even wrote that song first. Bad Larry roams free and wants for nothing; living a life of experience and lives by his own rules and dying on his own terms; a life to vilify or envy.”
For Cloakroom the world of modernity is in polycrisis and America has lost its soul. Narrative fetishism is all too usual of a literary mechanism for Cloakroom. If you listen closely you can hear the concern; not just for the teetering social structure but for what it means to be human and the high cost of the human experience. On Last Leg of the Human Table, each song showcases Cloakroom’s genre-bending capabilities and seemingly vast array of influences; whether it be the sampling of the post-disco Detroit group Was (Not Was) or the lifted NASA recording of the humming of Saturn’s rings. Recorded in December of 2023 at Electrical Audio in Chicago and Rec Room Recording in Des Plaines, Illinois, engineer Zac Montez (Whirr, Turnover) aided in smoothing out the rough and turning up the quiet.
Last Leg of the Human Table trackslisting:
01 The Pilot
02 Ester Wind
03 On Joy and Unbelieving
04 – Unbelonging
05 The Lights Are On
06 Bad Larry
07 The Story of the Egg
08 On Joy and Undeserving
09 Cloverlooper
10 Turbine Song
Pop, shoegaze, doom, post-punk, folk only scratch the surface on Cloakroom’s shortest yet most essential release to date. Its title Last Leg of the Human Table may sound sardonic in its nature, but this group has always found some wonder in the scurrying chaos of modern life. In 37 minutes, the album imbues a sense of responsibility to the listener as if one leg were to falter, the whole table will fall.
After wrapping an extensive North American tour with Full of Hell last month, Cloakroom have announced a special Chicago album release show happening April 12 at Empty Bottle. More dates and news to come.
Cloakroom Live Dates:
Apr 12: Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle (Album Release Show)
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