Album Review: Dissolution Wave by Cloakroom

Ploughing a lonely furrow at the intersection between stoner-rock, shoegaze and doom-metal, Indiana trio Cloakroom has truly nailed its formula on album number three. Dissolution Wave is a rich and varied collection, which demonstrates surprising range without sacrificing cohesion. You need some touchstones? The doom-laden heavy riffs on songs like Lost Meaning evoke Kyuss; more spaced-out melodic offerings such as A Force at Play remind this listener of mid-90s Swervedriver, which is never a bad thing; the ground in between is more reminiscent of another great shoegaze-metal crossover record—Jesu's 2007 opus, Conqueror.

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