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September 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Announcement: Sleep to Play First NZ Shows (Jan, 2018)
Pioneering stoner-doom group Sleep has announced their first ever shows on New Zealand soil. The trio emerged from Northern California in the early nineties, and quickly tucked two records under their belts. The group’s sophomore album, 1992’s Sleep’s Holy Mountain, has held its place as one of the most influential records in the canon of stoner metal. Due to […]Archive
November 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 135 Lucid Dreams – Part One
Half of the people can be part right all of the time Some of the people can be all right part of the time But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time I think Abraham Lincoln said that “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in […]Archive
October 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Max Richter + Various Artists: Sleep Remixes
Max Richter + Various Artists: Sleep Remixes Deutsche Grammaophon Max Richter’s 8-hour album/dreamscape was the thing I listened to most last year – I say ‘thing’ because the gentle, gorgeous 8-hour sprawl caught me, deer in headlights, at times, other times it lulled me back to sleep, or sent me off to sleep, sometimes I […]Archive
September 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Long Ambients 1 – Calm. Sleep.
Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. (Independent) Moby’s latest “album” is a four-hour playlist available as a free download (or on all the streaming platforms) that aims to encourage you toward sleep, or at least to enjoy calm and peaceful activities. Created as part of the soundtrack for Moby’s own yoga and relax-time, Long Ambients […]Archive
March 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Max Richter: Sleep
Max Richter Sleep Deutsche Grammaophon Easily my most played album of 2015 – easily, and yet it’s not, strictly an album. Here, Max Richter has created a soundtrack for sleep, but it’s more than just a settling score, it’s a musical evocation, a melodic translation of sleep. It’s a stretch – too (pardon the pun) […]Archive
March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Dope Smoker: Marijuana
Dope Smoker Marijauana (Independent/Bandcamp) Just when you thought the album/track Dopesmoker by Sleep was as overt as “Stoner Rock” got, along comes the Welsh band Dope Smoker – that seminal track/album was surely, well, a guiding light – and here’s their fifth album; the title now as blatant as can be, and if you’re somehow […]Archive
July 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jeff Bridges: Sleeping Tapes
Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes dreamingwithjeff.com Here’s one of the strangest, but genuinely most rewarding albums of the year – a leftfield oddity from a big-name star. It’s been made – it seems – with best of intentions, both with regard to its primary purpose/stated aim and its secondary focus (you pay what you like and […]Archive
September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman