cleopatrick

cleopatrick are two friends (guitarist/vocalist Luke Gruntz and drummer Ian Fraser) who met at age four  in Cobourg, Ontario (population 19,000), and grew up completely inseparable, formed a band and and have turned into a global underground sensation. Since their breakthrough track “hometown," cleopatrick have logged 77 million streams and counting with no major label, no big budget, just two best pals doing their own style of Rock.

Their influences include AC/DC’s "Back In Black" and hip hop (the pair cite Drake and Kendrick Lamar as particular obsessions). Cemented in their abilities as a duo it became as integral an element within the sonic mix as the bands they’d first fallen in love with. cleopatrick created the loose DIY collective ‘New Rock Mafia’ as a means to offer support to one another. 

cleopatrick’s debut full-length LP "Bummer" was written, recorded and produced by the band and their close friend Jig Dubé. It will be released on the band’s own label Nowhere Special Recordings(via The Orchard/Thirty Tigers) on June 4th. "We're just three kids with some fuzz pedals and a point to prove," said Gruntz. In making "Bummer," the band has harnessed all the magic they’ve been brewing over their two-decade friendship and turned it into a record that aims to reinvigorate the rock landscape from the ground up.

Their latest single "Family Van" was born out of frustration. Gruntz says, “It’s an exercise in anger, and a conscious acknowledgement of the humble beginnings, independence, and DIY mentality that makes our band what we are forever.”

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