{"product_id":"crack-cloud-red-mile-explicit-content-parental-advisory-explicit-lyrics","title":"Crack Cloud- Red Mile (CD)-Track Cache","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band: both\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprofound and grand, vaporous and elusive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eproxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaccompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residence known \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eworking out of harm reduction centers and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eself-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethos \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor Crack Cloud. It was during these years that the band produced their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eastounding 2020 album Pain Olympics. At once, their vision became \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpansive, cinematic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow, Red Mile is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalgary. But Calgary\/home has become a liminal space, a place of flux. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a decade of personal and collective growth, what does home even \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emean? Red Mile is, for them, something like samsara: a return and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erebirth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRed Mile's sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, street \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebound sonics of Crack Cloud's prior material. Fizzling synths intertwine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may find \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewatch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars - alternately lilting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escuzzy and soaring - ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces. In 2024, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe cumulative effect is (in rock instrumentation terms) naturalistic. Any \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhiff of embalmed nostalgia is absent. Even the close of the album - a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewinding, alllllmost Jerry Garcia guitar noodle that leads us out of Red Mile \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- is delivered without sentimentality. Principal songwriter Zach Choy's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elyrics are cutting but merciful, with a sharp self awareness that never \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eslides into self-satisfaction. Crack Cloud as artists are critical - and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eultimately as forgiving - of themselves as they are the melting world \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003earound them. The songs balance an easy charm and cathartic power: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaffirming life without denying death. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded predominantly between the outskirts of Joshua Tree California, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Calgary, Alberta, this record is informed by a bittersweet mélange of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eold and new. The sprawling, novelistic structures of their previous albums \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare condensed and sharpened, while maintaining their refusal to delve \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einto superficiality. Through playful melodies and elliptical guitar soliloquy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethey deliver a final product of exceptional depth and distinctly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eunprecious warmth. Crack Cloud have produced a mature, vital work that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einterrogates the platitudes of the rock-n-roll lifestyle, but ultimately exalts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit's sacredness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRed Mile's de facto thesis statement \"The Medium\" is itself a rock song \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emeditation: an ode to the form and it's practitioners. This genre that - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etypical, repeatable, corporatized as it can be - somehow still has the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epower to help us live through life. We see the dusty sentiment of \"I love \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erock and roll\" exhumed, taken apart, and stitched back together. It's a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esong guided by faith - if the medium helps us proclaim our love today, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit's worth protecting from derision tomorrow. We live in an era where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emusic seems to love hitting it's head against the wall. Crack Cloud's Red \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMile is the sound - the feeling! - of the bricks giving way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58292102463870,"sku":"656605246321","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/5331\/4430\/files\/4342107-3184034.jpg?v=1792741333","url":"https:\/\/kr6f2j-43.myshopify.com\/products\/crack-cloud-red-mile-explicit-content-parental-advisory-explicit-lyrics","provider":"Track Cache","version":"1.0","type":"link"}