CLEOPATRICK
SHARE SUPERCHARGED NEW SINGLE ‘OK’
CURRENTLY ON AN EU FESTIVAL RUN
INCLUDING READING & LEEDS FESTIVALS THIS WEEKEND
WATCH “A FILM CALLED: BUMMER” HERE
Currently in the midst of their European summer festival run which includes Reading & Leeds Festivals on Friday 26th August and Saturday 27th August respectively, Canadian duo cleopatrick have shared their supercharged new single ‘OK’. Stream here.
‘OK’ was produced in the back of the band’s tour van during the band’s North American tour with Royal Blood and their recent Canadian festival dates. cleopatrick debuted ‘OK’ during their live shows earlier this year, which included London’s Electric Ballroom in March.
‘OK’ goes headfirst into battle, with Luke’s signature quick-witted lyricism biting through chopped, stretched and looped production – illustrating the band’s ever thrilling and transgressive approach to guitar music.
“It’s a song about complacency, ignorance, and trying to fit into a digital future,” the band say of the track which was mixed by Pitchfork approved hip-hop beatmaker jonwayne. “It’s about asteroids, evil computers, sneaker brands, and illusory-worth of our digital personas. It’s a song about all the shit you have to click “OK” on these days. You do it so much you reach the point where you don’t really think about the meaning or implications of digital consent.”
Once again finding a creative and unique way to connect with their fanbase, in order to announce/tease the new track, cleopatrick set up http://www.okokok.biz and tweeted it out with no other info. They later shared that if fans got it to 1 million clicks, they’d drop something– it happened within an hour, and up went the pre-save for ‘OK’. The ticker is currently sitting at over 6.4 million clicks.
cleopatrick also recently released “A FILM CALLED: BUMMER”; a surreal concert-documentary that was shot at the band’s triumphant sold-out Toronto show at The Danforth Music Hall in December 2021. Directed and produced by @cowboydrugs, the film premiered simultaneously on YouTube and at an in-person screening at The Loft in the band’s hometown of Cobourg, ON. Watch “A FILM CALLED: BUMMER” here
Since their inception, cleopatrick have proved themselves to be one of the most in-demand rising rock bands on the planet. They were the only band picked for Amazon Music UK’s Ones To Watch 2021, and have amassed over 100 million streams alongside multiple sell-out tours and several shows (including London’s Alexandra Palace) supporting Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes in 2020.
cleopatrick’s gargantuan debut album ‘BUMMER’ was released last summer via their own label Nowhere Special Recordings, and received critical acclaim across the board from the likes of The Guardian, Independent, MTV UK, DIY, Kerrang, Rock Sound, Dork and Upset. The band were also chosen as BBC Radio 1’s first ever Future Artist, with regular plays on air from tastemakers Annie Mac, Jack Saunders and Dan P Carter.
‘BUMMER’ was lauded for its transgressive take on guitar music, with DIY Magazine commenting “Blending together their love for guitars and hip hop, the pair seem to have hit on an intoxicating formula that showcases the power those genres can possess when united…no one in rock right now sounds like Luke Gruntz”. CLASH’s 8/10 stated “‘BUMMER’ is a record made to be played hard and loud, heard blaring out of car windows and making cavalcades in faceless crowds”, with Kerrang noting “Absolutely titanic riffs…cleopatrick’s obvious love of deafening rock and roll deserves praise”.
Comprised of best friends since the age of four Luke Gruntz (guitar/vocals) and Ian Fraser (drums), cleopatrick’s debut album ‘BUMMER’ saw the duo harness all the magic they’ve been brewing over their two-decade friendship and funnel it into a record that aims to reinvigorate the rock landscape from the ground up in every sense. Taking the ethos of their New Rock Mafia collective – a group of friends and fellow bands, united in making a more inclusive, equality-driven space in rock music – and imbuing it with the sonic ambition and ferocity of a record designed to be played hard and loud, ‘BUMMER’ is an album made to mean something.
“We want our music to feel as big as hip hop does in the club – big subs and loud drums and vocals right up front. But lyrically, we want to sing songs that everyone in the crowd feels comfortable singing along to. There’s a [historical] formula to rock music where people sing about drugs and alcohol and sex and it’s so fucking phony; it makes us so angry that kids who want to hear guitar music and get something from it and have a favourite band have to settle for that, and listen to these dudes lying to them,” Luke asserts. “It’s so gross to me and completely the opposite of how this genre started.”
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