Peace and Purpose
About this Album
Peace and Purpose is Crack Cloud's fourth studio album, released March 13, 2026 on Tin Angel Records, Meat Machine, and Unheard of Hope. It is a double album spanning 14 tracks, recorded entirely in founder Zach Choy's basement between November 2024 and November 2025 using a single SM57 microphone and what Choy described as "a variety of junk instruments and speakers."[1]
The record was born from what Choy called "a winter of prolonged grief," approached as a stream-of-consciousness exercise that ultimately yielded "a sense of relief, and gratitude." The album invokes Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope as a metaphor for endurance and punk authenticity. Its press materials describe it as music that "spews forth grimy bile that simultaneously radiates adhesive wonk-pop ear-tonics" -- "terrifying, inspiring, vital, invigorating and most importantly, utterly unexpected."[1]
The sonic range is deliberately eclectic, moving between kosmiche textures, industrial hip-hop rhythms, avant-jazz, glam, and harpsichord arrangements. One critic compared it to Ram by Paul McCartney filtered through The Clash.[2]