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Red Mile is the third studio album by Canadian musical collective, Crack Cloud, released July 26, 2024, through American independent label, Jagjagwuar. The album was preceded by the singles, "Blue Kite" and "The Medium" released on May 15 and June 18. 2024, respectively.
While the album's title, colloquially refers to a stretch of road in primary vocalist/songwriter and drummer, Zack Choy's hometown of Calgary, Alberta, that served as a public gathering place for fans of the city's NHL hockey team during the 2004 Stanley Cup Finals, thematically, it touches on themes of existentialism, consumerism, genealogy, self-reflection and pop culture through a deconstructive lens. Recording for the album took place between Calgary and Joshua Tree, California in the Mojave Desert.




Critical reception


Red Mile was favourably received upon its release. Review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80 from 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Writing for SPIN, Margaret Farrell offered a very positive review of the album, opining "Red Mile is a disarmingly earnest exercise in philosophizing" and further praising it as the group's "ultimate rock odyssey—a combination of epic poem-leaning lyrics with spacious, anthemic compositions that recall everyone from Gary Numan and early '80s David Bowie to Broken Social Scene"
Matt the Raven of Under the Radar also gives a fairly positive review, stating the album "lays out with an offbeat synergy of melodic weirdness and unconventional dynamism", but warns the juxtaposition "could be an acquired taste for some". He further implores "But be forewarned, pressing skip is at your own risk and will result in missing out on expanding your musical palette with some terrifically playful and energetic indie rock" and ensures "those that do will quickly realize the crisp underbelly of gnarly guitars, keyboards, and electronics—mixed with upbeat and curious rhythms while retaining the band's signature peculiarity—make Red Mile worth hearing".
Joe Creely of The Skinny offered a more pedantically mixed review of the album, due to the group's sound shifting from their early post-punk roots into a territory with more "pop sensibilities" stating the album "sounds like a 1976 punk band's third record, where raw fury ceases, replaced by flirtations with pianos and optimism". While Creely commends the songwriting and highlights blues rock effort, Ballad of Billy for it's "really enjoyable surly barroom energy", he ultimately criticizes Red Mile as "an experiment in straight-forwardness".




Track listing






Personnel


Zack Choy – lead vocals, drums, percussion, piano, marimba, mellotron, synthesizer, organ, production, writing, composition, lyrics, processing, arrangements, additional mixing, additional engineering, video editing, string arrangements
Emma Acs – vocals, writing (tracks 2, 7, 8)
Eve Adams – vocals
Will Choy – guitar, vocals, writing (track 7)
Bryce Cloghesy – guitar, acoustic guitar, synths, vocals, bass, piano, organ, synths, percussion, vocals, engineering, arrangements
Jared Drake – bass, backing vocals, writing (track 7)
Aleem Khan – piano, vocals, electric guitar, bass, novachord, organ, harmonium, mellotron, harpsichord, wurlitzer, synths, additional engineering, additional string arrangements (track 8), writing
Nat Philipps – saxophone
Additional musicians

Ellie Consta – violin
Silvia Fioretti – vocals
Victoria Hamblett – vocals
Will Harvey – viola
Venetia Jollands – violin
Arthur Sajas – vocals
Gamaliel Traynor – cello, string transcription
Technical

Isabelle Anderson – additional photography
Craig O'Brien – cover photography
Spela Cedilnik – additional photography
Eric Cinnamon – additional engineering
Daniel Fox – mixing assistant
Greg Kalbi – mastering
Syd Kemp – additional engineering
Aidan Pontarini – album layout, artwork, visual concept, formatting, graphic design
Daniel Schlett – mixing
John Paul Stewart – tape processing, vocals
Beck Vogelgesang – cover model




References

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• NCT
• NCT 127
• Diskografi LiSA
• The Eras Tour
• LiSA (musisi Jepang)
• Mark Lee (penyanyi)
• Midnights
• MTV Video Music Awards Jepang 2003
• Illenium
• The Eminem Show
• Red Mile (album)
• 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
• Miracle Mile
• Milestones (Miles Davis album)
• Nefertiti (Miles Davis album)
• Four Minute Mile
• Live-Evil (Miles Davis album)
• Turin Brakes
• Sorcerer (Miles Davis album)
• E.S.P. (Miles Davis album)