Rock meditations, introspection, and the search for a collective home. The multimedia collective Crack Cloud, which formed less than ten years ago in Canada, will return to Prague on April 21, this time to Cross Club. The band, formed around singer and drummer Zach Choy, will bring their third studio album, Red Mile, a recording reflecting their return from Vancouver to Calgary, back to where the idea of creating together, healing deep wounds, and overcoming the boundaries of individuality was born. Repeated returns, but again and differently, once more directed by Heartnoize-

What does home mean and where to look for it? After a decade of growing and developing together, Crack Cloud is returning to a more minimalist sound and discovering ways to transform together. Following their lively post-punk debut Pain Olympics in 2020, Crack Cloud followed up two years later with the album Tough Baby, toured extensively, and experienced several formative years together. With the album Red Mile, Crack Cloud wanted to pause for a moment and find out who they had become in recent years—there was less cynicism, a few more pop melodies, but the raw energy and power to talk about things without embellishment, sometimes perhaps painfully honestly, remained. “It all adds up to a magnificent record about the things that matter in life: art, family, and everything else we should be doing on this planet,” The Guardian said of last year’s album.