cleopatrick, are back with new single, “HAMMER,” the track is off their forthcoming album due in 2025, and arrives ahead of North American dates where they will be playing tracks from the record, along with songs from BUMMER, and 2022 EP, DOOM.

For fans of Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser, “HAMMER” finds the two childhood friends striking a new musical path. Working with producer Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker/Hand Habits/Tomberlin) at his Brooklyn studio.

Discussing “HAMMER”, Gruntz notes, “This song is about getting pummelled by the big guy. Like really just completely flattened out. it’s about the act of not only accepting your beat down, but actually welcoming it. Waving to the cosmic hammer as it comes down on the top of your head. Guiding its aim for the sake of politeness and efficiency, of course. Facilitating the expeditious destruction of your sovereign impulse, so that the powers above may move forward with whatever the next phase of their very important plan might be with greater speed. It’s not really up to you to understand much more than that — you actually shouldn’t ask those kinds of questions: just take it!”

Coming off a relentless touring schedule behind BUMMER and DOOM, Gruntz and Fraser took some much-needed time off, to recuperate both physically and mentally. Taking a step back allowed them the opportunity to not only move forward, but be able to take that step forward with the time and space to jam and explore in their rehearsal space, writing and demoing dozens of tracks before connecting with Weinrobe in Brooklyn.

“Ian and I were lucky to be able to take a long break where we lived some life and worked on this new music,” Gruntz adds. “During that time I was slowly able to forget that anyone was watching, and began to write stuff that existed outside of the caricature I had built in my head – whoever I thought I was, or whatever I thought this band was supposed to be. Because of that this new record is one of the clearest steps forward we’ve taken so far as artists. We’re already immensely proud of it and can’t wait to share more of the music.”

cleopatrick 2024 Live Dates:

11/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex [SOLD OU]
11/08 – Denver, OC @ Meow Wolf [SOLD OUT]
11/09 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean [SOLD OUT]
11/12 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Made
11/19 – London, UK @ Oslo Hackney [SOLD OUT]

Order “Hammer” by cleopatrick HERE