C L E A N E R, by CCR HEADCLEANER

C L E A N E R

by CCR HEADCLEANER

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	1.	The Brining Part 2 02:36
	2.	Coda Beach 03:16
	3.	Ripples 04:19
	4.	Don't Feel The End 05:20
	5.	The Rain Is Coming Down 04:29
	6.	Another Day Older 05:06
	7.	Too Much 02:16
	8.	There Is No Alone 03:31
	9.	Everyday 04:59
	10.	Hallway 06:29

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After birthing “Street Riffs,” their hi-definition, hi-energy, statement from 2020, CCR Headcleaner turned inward. The retreat from the pro-studio to the home studio was partially by design and partially decided by global events. “Cleaner” is very much a pandemic album, more of a homespun head trip than its predecessors. At the same time guitarist, songwriter and spiritual center of the group, Lacey Alexis, left the Bay for the shores of Lake Michigan. By most accounts an apocalyptic live-band became by and large a home recording animal.

Make no mistake, the record will still be filed under “Punk” at your local record shop. It kicks off with “the brining pt. 2” the hottest slice of Funhouse free-rock that the band has committed to record. “Too Much” gives us its jail abolition rap over a two chord hardcore stomp.

In a town (San Francisco) that is experiencing something of a DIY pop renaissance, Headcleaner has always fought to establish the fact that they have actual songs. Like ones with versus and choruses and hooks. On “Another Day Older” the band dips its toe into the great stream of Manchester-inspired danceable synth-laden pop. “Coda Beach” delivers a rollicking pub rock sing a long. “The Rain is Falling Down” keeps its melodic hook nestled in a wall of Jesus and Mary Chain-style feedback. “Cleaner” might just be the groups first and best Britpop album.

The album closes with “Hallway” a seven-minute extended jam that melds takes the classic, a boogie riff worthy of Ronnie Van Zandt, and repositions it within the unorthodox, heavy industrial free punk. This is no 70s throwback, but instead an attempt to up the ante. Without all the rock histrionics, technical arrogance and misogyny can the rock riff deliver on its ultimate promise: heavy music for total liberation.

All tracks were mixed and lovingly fucked with by none other than Eric Bauer at his Bauer Mansion (RIP) Chinatown SF.

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released November 28, 2023

Recorded onto ¼” 8-Track by CCR Headcleaner 2018-2021
Mixed by Eric Bauer and CCR Headcleaner Summer 2021
Mastered by John Greenham/Clearlight Mastering

CCR Headcleaner is:
J Flowers
Lacey A
Ned M
Dave
Mark T

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