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Artist:
SLEEPY SUN
Title:
Embrace
Label:
ATP RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
ATPR 033CD
Formed in Santa Cruz and now based in San Francisco, the intense sextet of
Sleepy Sun
release their breathtaking debut album,
Embrace
. Whether droning madly, spiraling into cascades of infinitely-echoing vocals or kicking back with their blissed-out take on classic Americana rock, Sleepy Sun are a band that has made many sit up and take immediate notice. Recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia, in January 2008, the album embodies the quintessential sound of West Coast psychedelia updated for the late noughties. "Golden Artifact" was conceived in the band's Santa Cruz living room, nicknamed The Dungeon for its low ceilings, low lighting, and various smells, and sounds like a dark incantation, "Lord" is a beautiful, melancholy, shuffling piano-tinged ballad, warmed by the light of the sun, and "New Age" harkens
Brightblack Morning Light
's hazy harmonies, ending with a thunderous freakout, written after watching every
Hellraiser
and
Jim Henson
film in succession. Comprised of
Brian Tice
(drums),
Jack Allen
(bass),
Rachael Williams
(vocals, haberdashery & interpretive dancing)
Bret Constantino
(vocals & harmonica),
Evan Reiss
(guitars) and
Matt Holliman
(guitars), the band met in the counter-cultural hub city of Santa Cruz, California, citing pizza, horticulture, and
Neil Percival Young
as common interests. Drawing musical inspiration from
Black Sabbath
,
Creedence Clearwater Revival
,
Can
and Creation Records, they forged their sound in intense jam-sessions, as heavy and as beautiful as redwoods meeting the ocean.
Artist:
SLEEPY SUN
Title:
Embrace
Label:
ATP RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
ATPR 033LP
LP version in full color gatefold sleeve.
Artist:
SLEEPY SUN
Title:
Fever
Label:
ATP RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
ATPR 039CD
"Sleepy Sun is a California band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, The San Francisco Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland. They came together -- young and garage strutting -- in the coastal Northern California crucible of Santa Cruz. And there they birthed the Sleepy sound -- dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin', soul, sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging California music of beautiful contrasts for conflicted times. Now, two records into a frighteningly fast-blossoming evolution, Sleepy Sun are a living machine of fire and focus. Their first release on ATP records
Embrace
illuminated the golden path to Sleepy land -- hard-riffing, delicate, dreamy and cultivated. The latest ATP release,
Fever
, is arrival at the palace the path promised.
Fever
is the honey harmonies and danger wailing of Bret Constantino and Rachel Williams pulled from a tender tangle into steel-strong braid; the wing-on-wing guitars of Matt Holliman and Even Reiss in screaming dives and sweet ascending circles; the lowdown served up tough and thundering from drum and bass authorities Brian Tice and Jack Allen."
Artist:
SLEEPY SUN
Title:
Fever
Label:
ATP RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
ATPR 039LP
LP version with full-color printed inner sleeve.
Artist:
SLEEPY SUN
Title:
New Age
Label:
ATP RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
10"
Price:
$10.00
Catalog #:
ATPR SP006
Sleepy Sun
is an apt title for this young San Francisco sextet, and their forthcoming debut full-length,
Embrace
, is one of those rare slabs of rock and roll that will wake you up in the morning, and send you off to sleep at night. With their throbbing rhythm section, swirling sea of guitars, and dreamy, haunting duet vocals, the word dynamic is a severe understatement. Here are two dream-inducing tracks off of their full-length.
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