![]() ![]() At first, the songs read like love ballads. Part of the band’s dissonance can be attributed to their unholy camouflage. A celebration of the unexpected is always a gamble that will eventually sink incisors, rip, and tear. The song goes inky dark. Unseen tentacles grab and squeeze the listener as a synth track is overrun by crunchy guitars and haunted drum fills blasted from the vacuum of space. As far as openers go, this one sends a clear message: prepare for anything.Īnd anything is exactly what you aren’t ever prepared for no matter how much you pretend to be. The uneasy pairing of pretty and pain comes to a head. Vessel’s pagan gospel conjures dark shadows filled with the barren branches of, “call me when they bury / bodies underwater / it’s blue light over murder for me / crumble like a temple / built from future daughters / to wasteland when the oceans recede.” The heavy eyelids of “Atlantic” open the album with twinkling keys and a vocal melody so achingly beautiful the listener is lulled into a false sense of tranquility. The unexpected is more satisfying when it’s ambitious auditory stimulus. The transcribed voicemails and text messages tell you that your wheelchair-bound mother has likely had a series of strokes and she’s headed to the hospital. Other times, it’s seeing your phone explode with notifications walking from a meeting with a master teacher to your own classroom. Sometimes, the unexpected comes packaged and delivered like this deviant piece of art. To hear This Place Will Become Your Tomb is to know the unexpected. Like any magic trick, the gap between expectation and experience increases drama and speculation. The folklore surrounding this band is simple misdirection. It’s intriguing ephemera, but at the end of the day, Sleep Token is a band. What other band is the singer in? Is it the dude from…? The members claim to W O R S H I P an ancient deity named Sleep. I reached for it as a sort of uncomfortable crutch.Įven before this album, much has been made of Sleep Token’s lore. I felt compelled–as if by nature–to listen to This Place Will Become Your Tomb–released September 22, 2021–in a time of distress. Relistening to this Sleep Token album and crying in my car. For a lot of reasons, I struggled to find a way to the end. I wanted to write about what a complicated piece it was, but… ![]() I was excited about the newest Sleep Token release, but it felt underappreciated. ‘Take Me Back To Eden’: A Glorious Conclusion. ‘Take Me Back to Eden’ sees Sleep Token boldly re-confirming a true love of the epic (the title track is eight minutes plus), whilst further exploring and developing those elements that keep the music removed from any kind of pack, howling at a moon that’s all its own. ‘Chokehold’ & ‘The Summoning’), along with some of the most commercial and certainly the most emotional, with a slew of other tones, textures and tangents touched on in-between. What comes next, only time will tell, but what’s certain is that it won’t be bound by convention any more than ‘…Eden’, which features probably the heaviest moments thus far recorded by Sleep Token (i.e. ![]() ‘Take Me Back To Eden’ (an hour-plus of music across 12 distinctive tracks) is part 3 of a trilogy, a spectacular chapter-closer in the ongoing Sleep Token saga – a saga that kicked off in earnest with debut album, ‘Sundowning’ (2019). With fan worship more intense than ever, and worldwide interest and intrigue growing at runaway speed, Sleep Token are set to reach bold new heights with studio album number three. ![]()
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