Crack Cloud

Crack Cloud

Peace and Purpose

Meat Machine

Can’t go over it. Can’t go under it. Gotta go through it. And somewhere out there in the Pitch black beyond all darkness lies Peace & Purpose. The horizon you never quite crest until the inevitable end. Breathe deep — this fearful moment is the most alive you’re ever gonna feel.For the last decade, Crack Cloud’s vision has grown ever more expansive, more cinematic. Last go around, they dropped from The Heavens and then performed with their bare backs to an endless darkening desert. Now they’ve crammed all that life into some metallic and strange object called Peace & Purpose.All the terror of living. All the helplessness. All the raw human will. All glued and screwed and locked into this impossible tactile shape of dungeon dub; sour milk vox; Avant-protest music.Music armwrestling itself to the ground. Far afield of beauty. The discordant symphony of factory farming and grim timber of the meat processing plant. The grinding din of the cogs. And yet, never giving up in spite of all good sense. Even in death, we are a coterie of survivors. Look now: There’s Terry Fox on his one-legged Marathon of Hope across The Great White North while cancer spreads through his lungs. A self-annihilating drive to feel alive. Rage against the dying of the light, they say. Well, how ‘bout it then!??!Peace & Purpose is not in any way some art project meditation on Punk Rock. It is Punk Rock. Terrifying, inspiring, vital, invigorating and most importantly, utterly unexpected. Every...

Crack Cloud

Crackin' Up - Live In London

Meat Machine

Half multimedia art studio, half experimental musical group—the Vancouver-based collective better known as Crack Cloud took over Evolutionary Arts Hackney with their massiv genre-bending sound in October 2022. Fresh from the release of their sophomore record Tough Baby, this performance with six-piece choir and strings (the band totaled seventeen on stage), for one night only was recorded and documented on film and presented here as Crack Cloud - Crackin Up Live In London. A legendary band at a legendary venue.

Crack Cloud

S/t

Deranged

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Crack Cloud is a mixed-media collective based out of Vancouver, BC. Modelled around harm reduction philosophy, the collective operates as a rehabilitative outlet for a revolving cast of multi-disciplinary artists across Canada. They sound like no other band going at the moment, delivering rhythmic art / post-punk that could be compared to early Gang Of Four and Wire. This LP compiles both their demos (s/t from 2016, and Anchoring Point from 2017) on one record. This is hands down one of the most interesting bands Canada has to offer at the moment. New album scheduled for 2019.