Electronic emo (“dreamcore”) artist Cloak recently released a new single and video. The visual is filmed by the artist at the face of a washing machine with his reflection in view – fitting the song’s theme. “Spirit of the Laundromat” touches on running around in circles trying to find your purpose. Check it out!
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“Dreamcore” singer-songwriter Cloak’s latest single is about powerlessness. With a somber guitar melody and minimal electronic production, the artist sings of revelations he finds as time goes on as the melody gets progressively clangorous. Cloak channels the loneliness of sitting on the edge and waiting for life to make sense.
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Breakcore artist Jared Eternal Mirror remixed Cloak’s song “Weights” from his “Anything For You” EP from earlier this year. While the original tune has a dreamy, ambient quality to it, Jared’s take on the song gets bright and glitchy. It’s quite a contrast but works well in a most unusual way; there’s even 808 production incorporated into it. Go listen
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“Dreamcore” artist Cloak’s latest single is a cry for company. He sings of only desiring to be with a someone who makes him feel less alone; he doesn’t want to drift apart from them and he’s sick of feeling down. Curtained with dense electronica, “I’ll Wait For You” desperately looks for comfort in a bleak reality.
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“Dreamcore” artist Cloak has a new EP out. By “dreamcore” we refer to an overall fuzzy mood with elements taken from emo, shoegaze, ambient, and indie rock. Dedicated to his girlfriend, Cloak wrote these songs about emotional turmoil that can manifest in relationships. There’s hard-hitting topics from your mind playing tricks on you to dwelling on inadequacies to being saved
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Dreamcore artist Cloak’s latest single is about being closely linked to someone because you’re tired of yourself. The young songwriter uses a spider’s web as a metaphor for being wrapped tightly in a bond with another, with helpless croons and electro-slowcore instrumentation to reinforce the desolate mood. Cloak’s doing something unique in the Milwaukee music scene, and this tune is
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Ambient electronic artist Brandon Buhr teamed up with dreamcore artist Cloak for a new single. Cloak sings about not knowing where to go or what to do and feels he needs to be saved from himself. This is gently blanketed by Buhr’s droning space-techno production. It’s short and sweet; the tune carries the cry for help over two minutes but
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Experimental dreamcore artist Cloak recently dropped his debut album, and he describes it as “a reflection of what he has been going through in his life.” It’s dreary, meditative, and desolate like having melancholy dreams of your childhood surroundings. The second track features lyrics of drowning in an ocean of your feelings, while the fourth deals with being so depressed
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