Up until recently, my favorite Cloakroom song wasn&#8217;t really a Cloakroom song. &#8220;Hymnal,&#8221; from the heavier-than-heaven Indiana trio&#8217;s 2017 album Time Well, is really Cloakroom&#8217;s take on &#8220;Were You There,&#8221; a 19th-century Black spiritual that probably echoes out of a thousand churches every Sunday. &#8220;Were You There&#8221; is sung from the standpoint of someone attempting…

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