Name: Dissolution Wave
Brand: Cloakroom

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RR74191

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "RR74191"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Colour

yellow

Colour details

Mustard Yellow

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "Mustard Yellow"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

781676741915

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "781676741915"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

RR74192

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "RR74192"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

781676741922

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "781676741922"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Cloakroom

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Relapse

Cloakroom celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band with their new album, <i>Dissolution Wave -</i> a concept album - a space western in which an act of theoretical physics—the dissolution wave—wipes out all of humanity’s existing art and abstract thought. In order to keep the world spinning on its axis, songsmiths must fill the ether with their compositions. Meanwhile, the Spire and Ward of Song act as a filter for human imagination: only the best material can pass through the filter and keep the world turning. This is the universe that Cloakroom guitarist/vocalist Doyle Martin conceived as a way of processing the last few years. “We lost a couple of close friends over the course of writing this record,” he says. “Dreaming up another world felt easier to digest than the real nitty-gritty we’re immersed in every day.” With lyrics based on an imagined cosmology, <i>Dissolution Wave</i> also marks a grand expansion of Cloakroom’s dreamy space-rock palette. Written from the perspective of the album’s protagonist—an asteroid miner who writes songs by night—”A Force at Play” has an airy, pastoral feel. Meanwhile, the melancholy title track captures the miner’s regret as they lament that they signed up for such a long stint on the job, while closer “Dissembler” describes their anxiety about the revelator who will judge their work. “If you don’t write a good enough song in this universe, you run the risk of being forgotten and lose the opportunity to return as a meaningful form of life,” Martin explains. 

Dissolution Wave

Music GB