musical
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Vancouver
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British Columbia
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, formed by drummer and frontman, Zach Choy. Alongside the group's core musical members who perform live as a band, a large number of multimedia artists are also associated and operate simultaneously as an in-house
production studio
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within the group, due to the project's strong focus on visual storytelling.
To date, they have released two studio albums, '' Pain Olympics'' (2020) and their most recent, '' Tough Baby'' (2022).
History
Formed in 2015, Crack Cloud started as the solo project of lead vocalist and drummer, Zach Choy while living in Calgary, Alberta. Soon after, the project moved to Vancouver in 2018, where most of its members met through various
addiction recovery
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and mental health programmes both as participants and as support workers. Choy stated that the purpose of Crack Cloud is a "healing mechanism" The group's logo is also notable as an appropriation of the
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public service announcements
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aimed towards children on various topics (
drug abuse
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peer pressure
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exercise
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, etc.) that were broadcast on Canadian television during 1990's until the mid-2000's.
Crack Cloud released their first self-titled EP, in 2016, followed by another the next year called ''Anchoring Point'' in 2017. These two EP's were re-released as a self-titled compilation via Deranged and Tin Angel/Meat Machine Records on June 1, 2018. Following those releases, the group toured internationally and featured at several music festivals including
Levitation
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which garnered the group considerable exposure between
North America
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The United Kingdom
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Europe
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respectively.
Crack Cloud released their debut studio album, ''Pain Olympics'' via Meat Machine Records on July 17, 2020, preceded by four singles, ''The Next Fix'', ''Ouster Stew'', ''Tunnel Vision'' and ''Favour Your Fortune'' between May 2019 until October 2020. The record was received favourably, based on the album receiving an average score of 87 from 8 reviews on
Metacritic
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, indicating "universal acclaim".
On July 8, 2021, the group were named as the winners of the Hi-Fidelity Award, a prize for Canadian recording artists use of innovation within their music videos at the 2021
Prism Prize The Prism Prize is a national juried award recognizing the artistry of the modern music video in Canada. The album's self-titled second single was released on July 8, 2022.
''Costly Engineered Illusion'', the album's third single was released September 1. 2022.
Members
Current
* Zach Choy – lead vocals, drums, synthesizer, film editor, producer, songwriter, percussion (2015–present)
* Mohammad "Mo" Ali Sharar – rhythm guitar, bass, keyboards, sampler, backing vocals, production, graphic design, film editor (2016–present)
* Will Choy – lead guitar, backing vocals (2018–present)
* Garnet Aroynk – rhythm guitar, bass, backing vocals (2019–present)
* Bryce Cloghesy – saxophone, lead guitar, sampler (2017–present)
* Jesse Atkey – saxophone, sampler, backing vocals (2018–present)
* Aleem Khan – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals (2021–present)
Former
* Jon Varley – lead guitar, backing vocals (2016–2020)
* Noah Varley – bass (2016–2020)
* Daniel Robertson – keyboards, synthesizers, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2018–2022)
Associates
* Eve Adams – singer, vocals
* Mackenzie Cruse – singer, vocals, graphic design
* Nicolas Dirksen – engineering, mixing, strings, additional percussion, additional synths
* Missy Donaldson – singer, vocals
* Wei Huang – graphic design, lettering
* Jennilee Marigomen – photography
* David Novotny – guitar, lap steel, flute
* Eris Nyx – artist, activist, community organizer
* Eden Solomon – dancer, choreography
* John Paul Stewart – engineering, mixing, processing
* Jing Wang – photography, graphic design, assistant choreography
The Prism Prize is a national, juried award established to recognize outstanding artistry in the Canadian music
video production
Video production is the process of producing video content for video. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard dri ...
community. The Hi-Fidelity Award is presented to a recording artist(s) who has used video art to represent their work in a consistently creative and innovative way.
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