If you’re like me and can’t wait for September 11th to roll around and bring the goodness of We Are by Cloak/Dagger, the awesome folks at Jade Tree are streaming the entire bad boy for you.
Check it out here.
I’m not one to really be impressed by band merch but Cloak/Dagger’s tshirts are what first caught my attention. At MD/DC/VA shows I would always see at least two people wearing a tshirt emblazoned with the Cloak/Dagger logo but in an array of colors: yellow, orange, pink, red, etc. I finally got the nerve to ask someone what the band was like and he told me a mix between Black Flag and Hot Snakes. I figured that I’d check them out myself.
Last October at The Fest V in Gainsville, FL I finally got to see them play and I understood why they might have an affinity with color. Like a kid walking around in a bright yellow shirt in a sea of black and white, Cloak/Dagger is an anomaly. Their garage rock n roll tinged songs are aggressive yet rhythmic enough to actually dance to which sets them apart within a genre where music is almost always too fast or too angry to shake your hips too. I stayed around to pick up their CD after their set but they didn’t have one out. The only music that was available to buy was a 7″ and that was about a year old.
Quenching our thirst for new tunes (somewhat), RVA’s Cloak/Dagger have released some songs for us to chew on. Piñata Breaks, Demo Takes is a digital-only release that combines the band’s recent Piñata 7-inch, along with demo tracks and one previously unreleased song. The album is available on iTunes, emusic, and other digital music providers.
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