{"id":21257,"date":"2021-07-10T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2021-08-30T20:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T00:32:21","slug":"album-review-sleepersound-idle-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/album-review-sleepersound-idle-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Sleepersound \u2013 Idle Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21258\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sleepersound_idle_voices.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sleepersound_idle_voices.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sleepersound_idle_voices-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sleepersound_idle_voices-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>After a lengthy hiatus, once again it\u2019s Vinyl Week on Musoscribe. For the next several days, I\u2019ll feature reviews of new albums released on my favorite format.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When I reviewed this Milwaukee band\u2019s previous album, 2018\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/22\/a-vinyl-roundup-to-round-out-2018\/\"><i>In Medias Res<\/i><\/a>, I noted \u201ca bit of a shoegazy vibe.\u201d The group has since doubled down on that quality, and <i>Idle Voices<\/i> is all the better for it. The six songs on this LP serve up sheets of sound, with guitar textures providing the aural equivalent of a rain-streaked windowpane. There\u2019s melody at the heart of the songs, and a vocal quality that reminds me of what Cocteau Twins might sound like if they were less precious and more intelligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSilence otherwise\u201d is a standout track, with some lovely, danceable, vaguely bossa nova styled percussion in its later moments. The fact that three of the five band members play keyboards (as well as other instruments) provides a clue as to the rich, densely layered feel of these songs. And the album title might (or might not) be a reference to the fact that on three of its six tunes, the voices are indeed idle.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a meditative character to some of these songs, one that persists even when the songs get loud and cavernous. The music is a fine balance of gentleness and crushing power. My previously guarded enthusiasm for the band has been amped up significantly upon spending time with <i>Idle Voices<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy hiatus, once again it\u2019s Vinyl Week on Musoscribe. For the next several days, I\u2019ll feature reviews of new albums released on my favorite format. When I reviewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65,67,73],"tags":[3663],"class_list":["post-21257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","category-shoegaze","category-vinyl","tag-sleepersound","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-67-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21528,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions\/21528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}