PACKS Share "Clingfilm" Video, 'Take the Cake' Out Now!
PACKS' debut LP Take The Cake came out in May via Fire Talk Records (Dehd, Patio, Mamalarky) and Royal Mountain Records (Wild Pink, Alvvays, Mac DeMarco) to critical acclaim, with The FADER comparing their "reluctantly anthemic slacker rock" to Pavement and Speedy Ortiz, while further praise was heaped on the band from the likes of Stereogum, Exclaim, So Young, NPR, NYLON, BrooklynVegan, Gorilla vs Bear, Paste, NME, and Bandcamp, who called the LP "the sound of classic indie rock as delivered by a promising new voice."
The record is out on vinyl as of last Friday, and we’re sharing a video for album highlight "Clingfilm". + READ: Exclaim's feature on PACKS.
"Clingfilm is a song about timing, compatibility, and exhaustion," Link explains. "At a time when I was working on film sets and I would spend hours wrapping multi-drawered dressers and semi-fragile frames in clingfilm I started a back and forth with this needy furniture. These abstracted objects that needed hours of attentive wrapping. I hated the furniture because it was so cumbersome and easily damageable but we all avoided the guilt and shame of damaging these props by wrapping them up tight and packing them carefully."
Toronto’s PACKS make music that’s like leafing through a diary entry of a time without visible movement, a subtle beauty that appears only when paying close attention. The band’s debut is a collection of songs that marry the loose but incisive jangle of early Pavement with the barbed sweetness of Sebadoh and the wide-eyed wonder of the first Shins LP. Written in two different settings, between the city limits of Toronto where Link was living in 2019, and the Ottawa suburbs where she was quarantined with her parents in the spring 2020, both remain complementary emblems of self-reflection and wry observation of the mundanity of daily life. "Take the Cake" is out on Fire Talk (Dehd, Deeper, Mamalarky) on May 21st digitally and July 9th 2021 on vinyl.
1st Pressing
Cake Splatter Vinyl - 300 Copies
Black Vinyl - 400 Copies
Additional Variants
Light Blue Indie Retail Exclusive - 300 Copies
Bright Red Rough Trade Exclusive - 100 Copies