{"id":29304,"date":"2025-04-27T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=29304"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:02:19","slug":"album-review-sleepersound-my-own-dead-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/album-review-sleepersound-my-own-dead-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Sleepersound \u2013 My Own Dead Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Milwaukee\u2019s Sleepersound has just released My Own Dead Love<\/i>, and the album marks a departure \u2013 an expansion, actually \u2013 from the sound on its earlier albums, specifically In Medias Res<\/i><\/a> from 2018 and 2021\u2019s Idle Voices<\/i><\/a>. Where those records dealt primarily in a sort of shoegaze style, the new record takes that approach and moved outward in multiple directions.<\/p>\n

The vinyl record opens with the vocal-forward \u201cLet\u2019s Play Wolves,\u201d a spare and breathy track. The majestic and alluring \u201cTread Down\u201d has a lovely, jangling feel redolent of a less complex track from The Church. \u201cCertain Beasts\u201d is more closely connected to the sound and feel of Sleepersound\u2019s earlier efforts, with a gauzy and shimmering sonic texture wed to a simple and deliberately-paced melody. \u201cNi Siquiera Tu\u201d begins with a jazzy, breakbeat-flavored percussion patter, adds some minor-key guitar picking and a sonorous ball figure. The song\u2019s plaintive and echo-laden vocal gives the track a foggy-windowed, melancholy air.<\/p>\n

Side two\u2019s \u201cEmbers\u201d strips away all the echo for an up-close-and-personal arrangement reminiscent (in the best possible way) of \u201880s alternarock like The Cure. \u201cFalling Dream\u201d moves the listener back toward shoegazeland, but builds upon an inviting drum part and ghostly vocals. Its title notwithstanding, \u201cSoma\u201d is in fact a not-especially-dreamy instrumental track that hints of danger. As it unfolds, the song reveals soaring guitar dialogue. The brief \u201cThe Flesh\u201d is dark, atmospheric and eerie, as spare as it is spooky and dissonant. The album\u2019s closing cut, \u201cLiving Ancestor\u201d combines most all of the preceding textures into a thing of beauty, a track that showcases all of Sleepersound\u2019s musical virtues in a single track. The song\u2019s treated vocal is a wonderful addition to the arrangement. It\u2019s a fine way to end an album, and leaves me fascinated to stay tuned and see (hear) where this group goes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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