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- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Psychedelic Rock
- Label: ATP Recordings
Blissful, sun-baked psychedelia straight outta Santa Cruz
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We Say...
Santa Cruz sextet Sleepy Sun sure do sound both sleepy and sunny. And seeing how they're umpteenth-generation psychedeloids who've shared blissful bills with such shape-shifters as Howlin' Rain, Earth and Dead Meadow, their dream-state solar energy is clearly a big part of their appeal. They pull you in best when they give their music time to shine — the two most rhythmic tracks on their debut are also the longest. "New Age," the opener, seemingly derives its name from the oil-drum circle in the woods that provides its hefty Killing Joke-like pulse, and from which Wiccan ritual chanting and guitar feedback can grow and curdle into thickness for seven and a half minutes; "White Dove" does something similar for nine and a half, piling on massed vocals and feedback noise and Hare Krishna percussion. "Golden Artifact," a concise 3:44, likewise does by its drone pretty well, starting out staring at its emo shoes but before long turning Eastern repetition in something indebted from Donovan or the Velvet Underground or Cornershop.
Elsewhere there are more tasty touches: sad Sunday morning church organ opens the aptly named "Lord," heavy groan and clatter in "Red_Black" (title a Blue Oyster Cult reference?) Most straightforward song is the closer "Duet With the Northern Sky," where said sky is apparently low-key Rachel Williams, who low-key Bret Constantino croons along with — until they eventually both end abruptly, wings fried like Icarus.
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| 01. |  |
New Age |
7:27 |
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| 02. | |
Lord |
5:41 |
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| 03. | |
Red/Black |
2:13 |
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| 04. | |
Sleepy Son |
7:26 |
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| 05. | |
Golden Artifact |
3:44 |
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| 06. | |
White Dove |
9:25 |
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| 07. | |
Snow Goddess |
5:40 |
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| 08. | |
Duet With The Northern Sky |
2:58 |
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08 Total Tracks, 44:34 Total Length
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