Cloakroom - "Story of the Egg"
Photo by Vin Romero The press release for Cloakroom's latest single describes their sound as "pop, shoegaze, doom, post-punk, folk," and normally I'd read all those genres and just assume the person who wrote it just bundled a bunch of genres together to sound interesting. But, "Story of the Egg" actually fits all of those genres and combines them into something completely unique. The song comes roaring in like a freight train, albeit a fairly chill one as far as freight trains go. It's more shoegaze at this point, although the beat is a little faster than you would expect with all of the warm fuzz coating it. The vibe of the fuzz is more than a little doom-like, but the vocals are what throws the entire song off in the best possible way. The vocals are where the pop and folk comes in. It's a sound that you would never associate with shoegaze or doom, but Cloakroom somehow pull it off perfectly. Drummer Tim Remis says that the new single is about “....