Listen to cleopatrick's dreamy new song, PLEASE

Toronto alt.rock two-piece cleopatrick have announced that their second album, FAKE MOON, will be arriving on March 14. To celebrate, they've given a taster of what to expect, via the atmospheric first cut from it, PLEASE.

The album sees the band taking a less jagged path than previously, instead going for what singer/guitarist Luke Gruntz calls "laptop rock". The new tune, meanwhile, sees him and drummer Ian Fraser looking at the gravitational pull of groupthink and being sucked into a herd.

"PLEASE is about the implicit forces that pull us to belong. It's about the comforting and consuming magnetism of the collective," says Luke. "It's kind of a love song. An acknowledgement and acceptance of something fundamental.

"There's a gradual surrender and slow unraveling in the recording — like the sound itself is subject to the same cosmic pull I'm singing about. By the end of the track, all the instruments are being torn apart digitally. Phil (Weinrobe, producer) had almost the entire mix running through an old Roland 303 sampler that mangled the audio into this beautiful, slushy mess of missing information and usurped data. and so the concept loops back on itself eternally.

"The video was shot by our friend and longtime collaborator Ryan Faist AKA boywonder. We wanted the video to look like a scene from a movie, more than a music video. The video shows a young guy experiencing the pull of the collective."

Check it out below.

The band are also hitting the UK and Ireland for a run of dates right after album release. Catch them at one of the dates below. Get your tickets now.

cleopatrick UK and Ireland tour 2025

March

18 Brighton, Chalk
19 Bristol, SWX
21 Nottingham, Rock City
22 Manchester, Academy 2
23 Dublin, Academy
25 Glasgow, SWG3
26 Leeds, Stylus
28 Birmingham, O2 Institute 2
29 London, Electric Brixton

FAKE MOON tracklist

1. HEAT DEATH
2. BAD GUY
3. HAMMER
4. PLEASE
5. SOFTDRIVE
6. CHEW
7. BIG MACHINE
8. SARAH
9. FAKE MOON
10. LOVE YOU

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