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Reining in the tempos and upping a sense of fuzz-fuelled lo-fi wonder, Cleopatrick’s ‘Fake Moon’ is less a reimagining of their sound and more a complete reinvention. A stark departure from the towering riffs and walls of noise that dominated their gritty 2021 debut ‘Bummer’, it finds guitarist-vocalist Luke Gruntz and drummer Ian Fraser continuing further down the rabbit hole they first stumbled into on the following year’s ‘Doom’ EP.