Sydney natives, Sleepmakeswaves are about to take the next big step in their career. The instrumental rock group, formed in 2006, has already ticked off a convincing number of career achievements without so much as an album released. A small collection of independent EPs saw radio play on Triple J and even the BBC, with a commendable number of positive reviews online and devoted new fans at their shows.
Their latest collection of songs will be released as their first album proper, titled …And So We Destroyed Everything and without being too dramatic, the title rings true. The album is a massive leap forward for the band, leaving their metal influences for an equally melodic but drastically more accessible heavy-without-excluding-listeners-style of instrumental rock that doesn't continually fall into the same, entirely predictable, soft-loud-soft patterns that a number of post-rock bands use as their staple. The group didn't stray too far from their post-rock roots however, letting themselves choose poetic, lengthy track titles. We'll let that slide, however.
Album opener To You They Are Birds, To Me They Are Voices In The Forest steps forward quickly with a wall of sound. It is a rock track. Fast enough to not drag on, as well as rhythmically and melodically stimulating enough to not keep you wondering if they would be better with vocals. For essentially what is a home studio recording, it becomes apparent quite quickly that album producer Dax Liniere knows what he is doing.
The next track In Limbs and Joints provides a change. It's about half the length of the opener and finishes exactly when it needs to. It rolls into Our Time Is Short But Your Watch Is Slow perfectly. Track three is the first serious taste of this album's electronic influences. Glitchy drums and bubbling synths are paired against a glockenspiel melody and swelling guitars; it just works.
As the album rolls on, the group really showcase their musicianship. The eleven minute epic, A Gaze Blank and Pitiless As The Sun, lets each member of the band show off their chops, without the song being a mere showcase for said chops. Straight after this epic the band does something equally as impressive; they show restrain.
The album stands up strongly for an independent debut. You can expect continued support from Triple J and for the international support slots to continue rolling. There can be little doubt that Australia is about to see its first post-rock export in a number of years.
…And So We Destroyed Everything is out July 21 through Birds Robe Records.
1. Born Of Osiris - The Discovery 2. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil 3. Emmure - Speaker Of The Dead 4. Last Chance To Reason - Level 2 5. Skindred - Union Black 6. Winds Of Plague - Against The World 7. Asking Alexandria - Reckless And Relentless 8. I See Stars - The End Of The World Party 9. Monsters - Monsters 10. I Set My Friends On Fire - Astral Rejection 11. The Air I Breathe - Great Faith In Fools 12. Red - Until We Have Faces 13. Texas In July - One Reality 14. Origin - Entity 15. Tech N9ne - All 6's And 7's 16. Samael - Lux Mundi 17. Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka 18. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Motherland 19. Otep - Atavist 20. Times Of Grace - Hymn Of A Broken Man 21. Lady Gaga - Born This Way 22. Dr. Acula - Slander 23. D.R.U.G.S. - D.R.U.G.S. 24. Everyone Dies In Utah - Seeing Clearly 25. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance 26. Emery - We Do What We Want 27. Vampires Everywhere! - Kiss The Sun Goodbye 28. We Are Defiance - Trust In Few 29. KMFDM - WTF?! 30. Tyler, The Creator - Goblin 31. Varg - Wolfskult 32. Rise Against - Endgame 33. Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire 34. As Blood Runs Black - Instinct 35. The Color Morale - The Devil In Your Eyes
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A big update with some shuffling.
TOP __ OF 2011:
1. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion 2. Moonlit Sailor - Colors in Stereo 3. Altar of Plagues - Mammal 4. Disma - Towards the Megalith 5. Krallice - Diotima 6. The Seven Mile Journey - Notes for the Synthesis 7. Moonsorrow - Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa 8. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Bleeding the New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis) 9. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal 10. Fen - Epoch 11. Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling 12. This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket 13. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times 14. Loss - Despond 15. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah 16. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual 17. Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones 18. Rotten Sound - Cursed 19. Dragged into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind 20. Braveyoung - We Are Lonely Animals 21. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand 22. Grayceon - All We Destroy 23. Bloodiest - Descent 24. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass 25. We Made God - It's Getting Colder 26. 417.3 - _(-_-)_ 27. Scale the Summit - The Collective 28. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 29. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous 30. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes 31. Origin - Entity 32. Lock Up - Necropolis Transparent 33. Vreid - V 34. Falkenbach - Tiurida 35. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 36. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft 37. Demonaz - March of the Norse 38. Arms and Sleepers - The Organ Hearts 39. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Immortal I 40. Light Bearer - Lapsus 41. Codes in the Clouds - As the Spirit Wanes 42. Neuraxis - Asylon 43. Obscura - Omnivium 44. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling the Plane of Existence 45. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction 46. Indian - Guiltless 47. Mitochondrion - Parasignosis 48. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising 49. Mercenary - Metamorphosis 50. Benighted - Asylum Cave
Next big albums for me to listen to...
sleepmakeswaves - And So We Destroyed Everything Novembers Doom - Aphotic
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Their latest collection of songs will be released as their first album proper, titled …And So We Destroyed Everything and without being too dramatic, the title rings true. The album is a massive leap forward for the band, leaving their metal influences for an equally melodic but drastically more accessible heavy-without-excluding-listeners-style of instrumental rock that doesn't continually fall into the same, entirely predictable, soft-loud-soft patterns that a number of post-rock bands use as their staple. The group didn't stray too far from their post-rock roots however, letting themselves choose poetic, lengthy track titles. We'll let that slide, however.
Album opener To You They Are Birds, To Me They Are Voices In The Forest steps forward quickly with a wall of sound. It is a rock track. Fast enough to not drag on, as well as rhythmically and melodically stimulating enough to not keep you wondering if they would be better with vocals. For essentially what is a home studio recording, it becomes apparent quite quickly that album producer Dax Liniere knows what he is doing.
The next track In Limbs and Joints provides a change. It's about half the length of the opener and finishes exactly when it needs to. It rolls into Our Time Is Short But Your Watch Is Slow perfectly. Track three is the first serious taste of this album's electronic influences. Glitchy drums and bubbling synths are paired against a glockenspiel melody and swelling guitars; it just works.
As the album rolls on, the group really showcase their musicianship. The eleven minute epic, A Gaze Blank and Pitiless As The Sun, lets each member of the band show off their chops, without the song being a mere showcase for said chops. Straight after this epic the band does something equally as impressive; they show restrain.
The album stands up strongly for an independent debut. You can expect continued support from Triple J and for the international support slots to continue rolling. There can be little doubt that Australia is about to see its first post-rock export in a number of years.
…And So We Destroyed Everything is out July 21 through Birds Robe Records.
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Rotten Sound: 8.5/10
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2. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
3. Emmure - Speaker Of The Dead
4. Last Chance To Reason - Level 2
5. Skindred - Union Black
6. Winds Of Plague - Against The World
7. Asking Alexandria - Reckless And Relentless
8. I See Stars - The End Of The World Party
9. Monsters - Monsters
10. I Set My Friends On Fire - Astral Rejection
11. The Air I Breathe - Great Faith In Fools
12. Red - Until We Have Faces
13. Texas In July - One Reality
14. Origin - Entity
15. Tech N9ne - All 6's And 7's
16. Samael - Lux Mundi
17. Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka
18. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Motherland
19. Otep - Atavist
20. Times Of Grace - Hymn Of A Broken Man
21. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
22. Dr. Acula - Slander
23. D.R.U.G.S. - D.R.U.G.S.
24. Everyone Dies In Utah - Seeing Clearly
25. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance
26. Emery - We Do What We Want
27. Vampires Everywhere! - Kiss The Sun Goodbye
28. We Are Defiance - Trust In Few
29. KMFDM - WTF?!
30. Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
31. Varg - Wolfskult
32. Rise Against - Endgame
33. Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire
34. As Blood Runs Black - Instinct
35. The Color Morale - The Devil In Your Eyes
TOP __ OF 2011:
1. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
2. Moonlit Sailor - Colors in Stereo
3. Altar of Plagues - Mammal
4. Disma - Towards the Megalith
5. Krallice - Diotima
6. The Seven Mile Journey - Notes for the Synthesis
7. Moonsorrow - Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa
8. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Bleeding the New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis)
9. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
10. Fen - Epoch
11. Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
12. This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket
13. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times
14. Loss - Despond
15. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
16. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
17. Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones
18. Rotten Sound - Cursed
19. Dragged into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind
20. Braveyoung - We Are Lonely Animals
21. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
22. Grayceon - All We Destroy
23. Bloodiest - Descent
24. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass
25. We Made God - It's Getting Colder
26. 417.3 - _(-_-)_
27. Scale the Summit - The Collective
28. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
29. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous
30. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
31. Origin - Entity
32. Lock Up - Necropolis Transparent
33. Vreid - V
34. Falkenbach - Tiurida
35. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
36. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
37. Demonaz - March of the Norse
38. Arms and Sleepers - The Organ Hearts
39. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Immortal I
40. Light Bearer - Lapsus
41. Codes in the Clouds - As the Spirit Wanes
42. Neuraxis - Asylon
43. Obscura - Omnivium
44. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling the Plane of Existence
45. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
46. Indian - Guiltless
47. Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
48. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
49. Mercenary - Metamorphosis
50. Benighted - Asylum Cave
Next big albums for me to listen to...
sleepmakeswaves - And So We Destroyed Everything
Novembers Doom - Aphotic