Midway through writing their debut record under the cleopatrick moniker, lifelong friends Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser felt a pang of nostalgia for the chaos of touring and live shows, causing them to inject what they’d written with a new, intensified energy. “We tracked with a vengeance,” Gruntz put it in a press release. “We had fire in our eyes.”
The first single they’ve released after this overhaul is the riff-heavy “GOOD GRIEF,” built around blues rock guitar warped into something worthy of the mosh pit they aim to incite with the track as soon as social distancing measures are a thing of the past. “It is a reminder of the perspective gained through our months of basement solitude, and a message to anyone that doesn’t quite ‘get it’ yet,” they share. “It’s a double-edged sword meant to cut down those phonies, and unite our allies with a single swing.”
Along with the amped-up song, the pair constructed an equally amped-up visual, with friends taking turns belting out the song’s lyrics in a drained pool. “We conceptualized, directed, and edited the music video by ourselves in an afternoon with a rented camera and a friend’s backyard. The song and video are meant to imply a future filled with mosh pits and chaos; requesting our fans hold-on a little longer. We will be reunited soon.”
Watch it below.
