No sleep 'till celestial object

Sleepy Sun may have created the soundtrack for Summer 2009

When I grow up I'm going to put up a band. And we will do so much drugs! Our album covers will be symbolism filled and esoteric, and our song titles pseudo-artistic and cryptic just like the tittle of this blog article above. And our clothes will be ugly and dirty. Oh, did I tell you we are about to do so much drugs? We'll do thumbprints of acid and mescaline and shitidrine and it will be like visiting all the museums in Paris in one day. And our music sounds just about the same as everything done before us, but it doesn't matter since it's not about how the music sounds, it's about how the music tastes like.

Sleepy Sun is a genre band, one might even say generic. Droning guitars, religious themes, drugged up vocals and a good deal of echo. Besides the obvious influences from the sixties there are echoes of Black Mountain, The Oscillation, Spiritualized and even Kula Shaker. Most of the tracks work fine for me... With two exceptions, the hang-the-lyricist-mood agitatingly titled Snow Goddess, which propably tries to imitate Kid A era Radiohead, and then, the vocals in Duet With The Northern Sky simply sound disgusting.

The most satisfying track must be the downcast, subtle, still somehow entheogenic whirlwind of gentle fire, Golden Artifact, a tornado of flammable liquid moving in slow motion, more kissing than consuming. The strange atmosphere makes me think of the mellowness of Grateful Dead's Dark Star every time I hear it. I would like to taste more of this stuff.

One would make a mistake calling Embrace a record of great originality. It would be unfair to call it mediocre as well. Thumbs up because of Golden Artifact and the guilty pleasure soothing thought that after the summer I'll check into a rehab and throw away this piece of easygoing "music to take dope in the park by".

Sleepy Sun: Embrace
(ATP, 2009)
Record rating: 8.5/10