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The Cloth to Release New Album Going to Vomit July 4; Tour Dates Announced

Posted in Whathaveyou on June 20th, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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Like a rumble coming up from the floor from a show you didn’t know was happening in your basement, Philadelphia noise rockers The Cloth return on July 4 in true American spirit with the seven-track EP, Going to Vomit. If you can think of a better way to celebrate national heritage than blistering raw pummel like that of “Drowning Man” or the half-speed punk of “The Fig,” well, you’re probably thinking along the wrong lines to start with, so get on board. There’s still time, if you’re concerned about time. What were you gonna do? Fireworks? Come on.

The Cloth will support the new release by hitting the road alongside Cemetery Flowers. Dates and more info on the EP follow here, as sent down the PR wire:

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the Cloth – “Going to Vomit” – 7.4.2017 and Tour

Greetings, dear reader, from South Philadelphia. THE CLOTH is preparing to hit the road once again, this time in support of their 4th proper release, “GOING TO VOMIT.”

Since 2012 THE CLOTH has been bullheadedly writing, recording, touring, and booking locally for their national DIY family. “GOING TO VOMIT” continues THE CLOTH’s commitment to all things dissonantly catchy, weird and heavy. Lyrical content remains ever dismally resigned, themes ranging from the rejection of class constructs and materialism in western civilization, to the losing of friends and family to time or death, and of course the pent up rage against long-gone slumlords and former employers.

After 5 years THE CLOTH is showing no signs of stopping. “GOING TO VOMIT” comes out on the 4th of July, and the band will be on the road through July 9, with support from CEMETERY FLOWERS.

The Cloth live:
All dates with Cemetery Flowers (ex-Bubonic Bear / Kerosene)
7/4 Golden Pony, Harrisonburg, VA
7/5 The Hideaway, Johnson City, TN
7/6 Go Bar, Athens, GA
7/7 House Show, Durham, NC (msg for address)
7/8 Strange Matter, Richmond, VA
7/9 House Show, Philadelphia, PA (msg for address)

New EP was recorded in the winters of 2016 and 2017 with our good friends James and Dan at the Sex Dungeon, same folks who recorded our first tape “Number One.. Our session with them this past winter was the final session at their guerrilla warehouse studio. We will also have copies on tour of our previous two releases on Reptilian Records: “Number Two,” our 2014 4-song 7″, and “Touched,” our 2016 LP, as well as brand new “Going to Vomit” shirts / pins / stickers.

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https://thecloth.bandcamp.com/album/going-to-vomit
http://thecloth666.tumblr.com/videos

The Cloth, Going to Vomit (2017)

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Duuude, Tapes! The Cloth, The Cloth

Posted in Duuude, Tapes! on June 13th, 2013 by JJ Koczan

Philly trio The Cloth started kicking around last summer to hear their Thee Facebooks page tell it, but the wretched truth is that these three dudes have been around for a while in acts like Count von Count, Holy Dirt and Pagan Wolf Ritual, and I’ve taken that to be the reason why, when I first popped in Side Turtle of their five-song self-titled demo, it seemed The Cloth had an immediate idea of what they wanted to sound like. The three-piece is comprised of guitarist Nate Jaffe, bassist Tom von Count and drummer Jake van der Lindevon Count and Jaffe both contribute vocals — and their first release is made up of five short, crisp noise rockers that, on songs like “Touched” and “Leech Farmer,” call to mind some of later Akimbo‘s flirtations with melody and mid-period Kylesa‘s thicker-toned sludge grooves along with a grown-up-hardcore raucousness.

The band included a CD, and the tracks “Touched” and “Landsickness”‘ have made their way onto Bandcamp, but I didn’t want to listen to those first because it felt like cheating. When I popped the yellow cassette in my car’s player, the gnarl was immediate. I don’t know how much of the material was recorded live, but the instruments certainly feel that way, and raw as the production is — one imagines if you’re capturing an aggressive sound, Philly in February is a good place and time to do it — the demo’s punkier roots come through even in slower moments like von Count‘s bass starting up “Landsickness.” There’s no shying away from creating a tension and even less from answering it back with thrashing fuckall. The pure 90-seconds of punk on “I Smell a Rat” make no pretense of dynamics, but even then, Jaffe finds room for some surprisingly airy post-rock notes to float over. Round it out with the grunge churn of “Skinless” (the longest cut at a sprawling 3:43), and the tonality proves even more complex.

Both Side Turtle (pictured above) and Side Not Marked repeat the same program, and I have to agree with the advice of the inside liner, which devotes an entire panel to the words “Play Loud.” At the risk of spoiling it for anyone who might chase down a copy, The Cloth end each side of the tape with a sampled clip of Bill Hicks talking about the Kennedy assassination and American Gladiators. Not exactly timely, but the context applies as much as anything Hicks ever said did, and by that I mean here’s a white dude in a culturally privileged position with no critique of how that culturally privileged position allows him to critique the culture and patriarchy that put him in that privileged position in the first place; not that he should be appreciative, just that he’s all anger and no concrete challenge to or expressed awareness of his own place within the establishment he’s angry at. Still, I’ll take it over Dennis Leary, though if it was between Hicks and Kurt Vonnegut, who the band quote elsewhere, I fail to see the need for a choice at all.

But that’s on Hicks and not The Cloth. Point was that The Cloth set themselves up on their debut tape (hopefully the first of many releases on a variety of formats) with not necessarily a wide sonic scope, but a rawness and a natural sounding dynamic from which to build on subsequent outings. I wouldn’t ask more of a demo than that, and the more I go back to these five tracks, the more I hear in them. I don’t know how many copies they’re making, but if you can hunt one down, it might prove worth your while.

The Cloth, “Touched” & “Landsickness”

The Cloth on Bandcamp

The Cloth on Thee Facebooks

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