Cloth - Secret Measure Cloth

There’s a track on Cloth’s Secret Measure – their second full length and first outing for Glasgow’s Rock Action Records – that builds on a single two note melody. Secret Measure is a record that builds. It’s a quiet masterpiece, a body of work that simmers and weaves its way into the world through intricate, delicate guitar lines; melodies that are sparse yet full all at once. It’s not all guitar, of course, there’s equally affecting drum and bass accompaniments, but at its heart, Secret Measure is an album that explores the dynamic between two guitarists and all the ways that such a relationship can sound and coexist in the same space. Cloth is Paul and Rachel and Paul and Rachel are bandmates and twin brother and sister, too. It would be easy to call the music they make ‘pop’. It is pop music but it’s pop music with so much more – so much intimacy and space, so many moments to catch your breath. Their year ended with a few Slowdive support slots and their biggest hometown headline yet at Stereo. It goes without saying that Cloth are already ingrained in the fabric of Glasgow. – LT