The Cloak Ox is a Minneapolitan supergroup of sorts — four fellas who've played together and apart in Andrew Bird's band, Alan Moore's Crook&Flail project, WHY?, and Hymies Basement to name a few. Also, they were all in Fog (signed to Ninja Tune in the early aughts), and drummer Martin Dosh is, well, Dosh, the loop-happy one-man band. Pedigrees aside, main man Andrew Broder and his wrecking crew are forging a new path with their most rockist project yet, drawing from inspirations as diverse-yet-sensible as Tom Petty and Funkadelic. -Spin

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