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Over time, two EPs and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaccompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residence known \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eworking out of harm reduction centers and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eself-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethos \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor Crack Cloud. It was during these years that the band produced their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eastounding 2020 album Pain Olympics. At once, their vision became \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpansive, cinematic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow, Red Mile is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalgary. But Calgary\/home has become a liminal space, a place of flux. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a decade of personal and collective growth, what does home even \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emean? Red Mile is, for them, something like samsara: a return and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erebirth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRed Mile's sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, street \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebound sonics of Crack Cloud's prior material. Fizzling synths intertwine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may find \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewatch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars - alternately lilting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escuzzy and soaring - ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces. 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The songs balance an easy charm and cathartic power: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaffirming life without denying death. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded predominantly between the outskirts of Joshua Tree California, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Calgary, Alberta, this record is informed by a bittersweet mélange of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eold and new. The sprawling, novelistic structures of their previous albums \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare condensed and sharpened, while maintaining their refusal to delve \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einto superficiality. Through playful melodies and elliptical guitar soliloquy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethey deliver a final product of exceptional depth and distinctly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eunprecious warmth. 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