CLEARED - BREAKING DAY (LIMITED EDITION LP)

Cleared Breaking Day on Limited Edition LP + Download Coupon

Breaking Day is the second full-length album from Cleared, the Chicago-based duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. While their self-titled debut album found the duo exploring themes of stasis and texture, Breaking Day represents a huge development in the scope and overall style of the project. Where previous material had been slowly assembled from dozens of individual recordings and experiments, this new collection of songs was born from the raw documentation of Cleared’s live performance in the studio. 

Elements of noise, drone, and psychedelia are filtered through a dark, unifying lens that ranges from relentless rhythmic assault to monolithic tonal sculpture. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force. If Cleared’s first record presented a frozen, gray-washed realm of ambient sound, Breaking Day represents its inverse: a blackened subterranean space of alien movement and activity; a premonition of an assault from the unknown.

Breaking Day is presented with the utmost highest production standards, mastered and cut to vinyl by Andreas Lubich at D&M in Berlin, pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl at RTI and housed in a heavy-duty old-style tip-on gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton. Also included is a free download coupon. LP is limited to only 500 copies.

Cleared Breaking Day Track Listing:

1. Rogues
2. Sighted
3. Breaking Day
4. No Path To Claim
5. Quartz
6. The Harvest