Photo Credit: CLONE photo by Jason House
“Clone taps into the heavy angular energy of Sonic Youth and Gang of Four, with some of the same fiery political leanings… equally captivating” ~ Post-Punk.com
“Smashing earworm… a firestorm of sonic pleasure – enthralled and fascinated with its sonic impression, emotional turbulence and convincing delivery” ~ The Spill Magazine
“A sense of redemption rolling in over the horizon like a storm of joy and revelation… with undying belief in the power of what’s possible” ~ Stereo Embers Magazine
“Highly Urgent Political Rock” ~ Destroy // Exist
“Clone emerges from Brooklyn—fertile ground for underground music for decades—to remind us of what a band can truly be in an age of digitization, pre-fabrication, and superficiality” ~ Idioteq
Brooklyn alt rockers CLONE present ‘Care To Try’, the title track from their ‘Care To Try’ EP, a blazing three-track offering set for release on October 3 via Portland label Little Cloud Records. The band recently shared the adrenaline-inducing lead single ‘Galvanized’.
Written over the past year with Clone’s original lineup of LG Galleon, Gregg Giufree (Pilot to Gunner), Max Idas and Dominick Turi, this EP was produced by LG Galleon and Bisi at his famed BC Studio (built together with Brian Eno), and mastered by Fred Kevorkian(The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Juliana Hatfield, Regina Spektor, Lloyd Cole).
“Well ‘Care to Try’ is a retribution song. A song that cries out for the disenfranchised and undersung people in the world whose voices are never heard above the drowning of the right wing nationalist leaders in this world,” says LG Galleon.
“The spoken word bridge signals out to this issue with the line “with all charisma there is scorn, with every swoon another’s heart will stammer slowly in submission. To Glimpse what could have been through the eyes of another.”
Clone has also announced their autumn tour dates, for which current members LG Galleon (Dead Leaf Echo), Paul Liziragga (Namesake) and Alex Cox (The Veldt) are joined by new drummers Avery Brooks and Jeremy Duvall. The past few years has seen Clone tour with Christian Death,Twin Tribes, Wand, La Witch, Live Skull and The Veldt, as well as playing SXSW.
LG Galleon shares, “These songs were again recorded with the legendary Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, Helmet, Dresden Dolls), who helped bring the determination and drive in the studio to the forefront when recording these songs. A different lineup makes for a novel live experience every time, yet always with incendiary results. The full tour in October should prove a very fruitful experience and we are looking forward to playing these new songs from the EP live.”
Last year, Clone debuted their ‘CL. 1’ album and 12″ vinyl LP, born from a seemingly lost wellspring of shared imagination and youthful transformative power, via Little Cloud and North Carolina’s 5BC Records, previewed by the iconoclastic singles ‘Immutable’, ‘Dividing Line’ and ‘Redeemer’.
A passionate attempt to revive the kind of music that once profoundly resonated with the isolated and vulnerable, Clone’s music possesses a transformative power, capable of inspiring through its galvanizing, redemptive power. Drawing on the raw energy and boundless creativity of youth, Clone has created a personal sonic world that they now invite us all to experience.
The past few years has seen Clone tour with Christian Death,Twin Tribes, Wand, La Witch, Live Skull, and The Veldt, among others. With recent stops including SXSW, they continue touring, soon to appear at INKFEST in Providence, RI.
The ‘Care To Try’ single is out everywhere, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. On October 3, the ‘Care To Try’ EP will be released on 7″ vinyl, as well as digitally.