Announce new album ‘Last Leg Of The Human Table’ coming February 28 via Closed Casket Activities. Announce Chicago release show April 12.

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. The Indiana three return next month with their next studio album, the follow up to 2022’s post-apocalyptic space western ‘Dissolution Wave’, and label debut for Closed Casket Activities. Each song showcases band’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. Pop, shoegaze, doom, post-punk, folk only scratch the surface on group’s shortest yet most essential release to date. Its title 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. Cloakroom share lead single and video ‘Bad Larry’. Lyricist and guitarist Doyle Martin explains: “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.”

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. Band is: Doyle Martin (Lyrics, Guitar), Tim Remis (Drums), Bobby Markos (Bass).

‘Last Leg Of The Human Table’ Tracklist:

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

Cloakroom Live Dates:

Apr 12: Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle (Album Release Show)

More Dates TBA.