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Cloud Rat announce new album ‘Pollinator’

CLOUD RAT have announced a new album!

Titled Pollinator, the upcoming album from the Michigan grindcore trio is their fourth effort and is scheduled to be released in September this year.

As a companion piece to Pollinator, the band has devoted an entire EP to its more experimental leanings: Artoffact will release Do Not Let Me Off the Cliff as the second disc in a 2-CD digipak version of Pollinator. The upcoming album was recorded and mixed by JC Griffin and Rorik Brooks at Lakebottom Recording House in Toledo, Ohio.Do Not Let Me Off the Cliff was recorded and mixed by Brooks at his home studio, The Overlook. The music was mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. The artwork and layout were created by Renata Rojo.

Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist Rorik Brooks says,Pollinator is our most complete and accomplished work yet. It is the quintessence of everything we’ve tried to say and do before, and it’s kind of fitting that we are coming up on a decade of being a band together.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first single from the upcoming record; titled Webspinner.

Listen to Webspinner here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

Pollinator tracklist:
1) Losing Weight
2) Delayed Grief // Farmhouse Red
3) Seven Heads
4) Night Song
5) Wonder
6) The Mad
7) Al Di La
8) Last Leaf
9) Zula
10) Biome
11) Webspinner
12) Luminescent Cellar
13) Marionettes
14) Perla

Do Not Let Me Off the Cliff tracklist:
1) Thrust
2) Keep Flies
3) Share
4) 623
5) The Portal of God Is Nonexistence
6) Pity Sex
7) Dropping from Trees

Pollinator is set for release on September 13th via Artoffact Records.

For more information on CLOUD RAT like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.