Sleepy Sun - Embrace (ATP)
5/5
By: Matt Cole
Once in a while you hear an album that can only be described with the most clichéd of superlatives, yet deserves to be treated with more respect than that. So I won't be using the words genius, masterpiece, awesome or f-ing marvellous in my appraisal of Embrace by Sleepy Sun.
An alternative critical route would be to present a scenario where each of the band's influences come together in some unlikely collaborative melee inevitably qualified as being "on acid" in an effort to assert the impeccable heritage of the music while celebrating its minty fresh newness. However that's still too obvious an expository road to tramp for this blissful collection of tunes.
So I won't be likening Sleepy Sun to Spiritualized, Pre-over-rated-era The Verve, Velvet Underground the criminally under-rated World Of Twist and an-unpredictable Black Rebel Motorcycle Club being involved in a motorway pile-up while on the way to visit The Doors...on acid
....or indeed speed.
I'm not even going to try and squeeze Embrace into a genre, because gospel tinged psycho-swamp rock is probably the best I could do and still comes on too damned predictable.
What I will say is that these 8 songs are rare in their ability to instantly grab you by the hoo-ha's and then systematically reveal themselves anew at each subsequent exploration. Fall into Sleepy Sun's Embrace and allow them to lull you into a false sense of insecurity.
Indescribably good.
Artists in this article: Sleepy Sun
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