Listening to the story of Canadian duo cleopatrick is a bit like
hearing the plot of the best, most righteously validating
coming-of-age film never made. Two friends meet aged four in
Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, population
19,000), grow up completely inseparable, form a band and, against
numerous obstacles, blossom into a genuine, global underground
sensation. There are heroes and villains, highs and lows and,
crucially, some of the most poetic plot twists that could seem almost
too perfect, were they not completely true.
Take the story of 2017 breakthrough track hometown for example. Its
one of the craziest, most ironic things thats ever happened, begins
vocalist and guitarist Luke Gruntz. I was going to college because I
was too scared to put all my chips in the band pile, and thats what
hometown is about: its a song about feeling like were doing all this
stuff and were working so hard and were just never going to be heard.
Its literally a song about people probably never hearing our songs.
And then by some act of the universe, that song ended up unlocking all
the doors for us.
Today, cleopatrick has logged 77 million streams and counting - all
from an increasingly dedicated fanbase whove found the duo, completed
by drummer Ian Fraser, their own way: no major label, no big budget,
just two best pals knuckling down, cementing a unique sonic alchemy
and filling a space of honest, empathetic yet undeniably heavy-hitting
rock music that theyd been searching for themselves for years.
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