Time Well

Indiana trio Cloakroom have perfected a style that sits at the intersection of doom metal, shoegaze, and classic emo, resulting in music that feels like looking at a breathtaking night sky only to get annihilated by a meteor. Their sophomore album sees them sharpening their sound while keeping it nice and blurry; \"Concrete Gallery\" juxtaposes a lurching classic-rock groove with twinkling guitar effects, while the gorgeous acoustic strumming of “The Sun Won’t Let Us Go” is as pastoral as it is desolate.

Inspired by the harsh, rural landscapes of Indiana which they call home, CLOAKROOM drift through a range of emotions and styles on their sophomore full-length Time Well. Fuzzy and depressive. Expressive and expansive. An amalgam of doomy stoner rock, psychedelic shoegaze and moody, pop-influenced, sonic abrasion, Time Well is 10 songs and 60+ minutes of crunchy, guitar-driven atmosphere and downbeat rhythms layered atop deceptively sweet and tranquil melodies. At times crushingly heavy, others gorgeously contemplative, CLOAKROOM write music with purpose and intent; to dissolve from this world into an infinite blur.

Though longer and mellower, Cloakroom’s second album still has an anxious, open-ended feel. They take the appealing parts of a masculine pose without being wholly trapped by them.

Cloakroom are a three-piece shoegaze band from an area of Northwest Indiana known as "The Region." Positioned between the metro Chicago area...