Photo by Vin Romero

A good night’s rest leads to a waking nightmare on “Story of the Egg”, the latest offering from Cloakroom’s new album, Last Leg of the Human Table. While sleep deprivation or the general lack thereof Zzz’s has its negative cognitive consequences, drummer Tim Remis’ twisted discovery that getting a much needed overdose of deep rest leads to a heightened awareness of his surroundings. Welcome to a state of all things anxiety. That ripples — or perhaps whips through — the third advance single from the LP. For a band who has spent much of their discography sounding like a decompression of the god particle lost in space, all things kinetic feed their way through here. Its varying punk inspo is spelled out in its opening moments. “Lemonheads are playing down the street / I don’t have the wherewithal for Godspeed / But they’re still near and dear to me,” Doyle Martin sings through a path caught between a bolted charge and that vacuous shape-shifting chaos of the cosmos they love to fuck around with. “Give this little string another pull / Living in the realm of the irrational / I am so very rational.” Whatever the case, lucidity has Cloakroom in sync with sonic cohesion, or at least their own definition of it.

Illustrations by: Bill Connors / Animation by: Cloakroom and Documavision

Cloakroom’s Last Leg of the Human Table will be released February 28th on Closed Casket Activities.