The album cover for Sleeping People 's EP "Notruf" is puzzling. It's a lion head, a human body, a cop-style hat, a laurel wreath, and a color system that defies reality. And those piercing eyes, staring straight into your soul. It is off-putting, perhaps, but it's memorable. That's sort of what Sleeping People's music is like too. It's layered and complex, and it doesn't necessarily obey rules. Time signatures change often. There are no lyrics, nor clear lines between movements; a staccato intro plucks its way into a more frantic guitar riff, which is off-set by a [...]
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I always wonder if artists think their fans are annoying. I tweet at artists all the time and sometimes they reply. This week I had to rappers tweet at me. Well, one of the re-tweeted me. People like Cage and MC Paul Barman who write back are so awesome. Thanks for being cool with the fans guys. I already could personally relate to the music but to see a real side seals the deal for me.
That's a logical impossibility. Policies and opinions about them are determined by what is known or plausibly believed, not by what is discovered afterwards. That should be elementary. - theory-frankfurt-school mailing list archive / chomsky Preterition is an artifice, pretending discretion when something is said with total clarity and indiscretion. For example: "If I were not obligated to keep military secrets, I would tell all of you of the large amount of armaments that we have so that you would feel even more confidence that our [...]
San Diego instrumental-prog rockers Sleeping People was one of the last real finds of 2007. Released on Temporary Residence the label, which also hosts Explosions in the Sky, Tarantel and Maserati and Grails among others, "Growing" is a straight forward instrumental rock album with trailing guitar riffs and rock solid drumming. Not as post-rock & cinematic as EitS or dark & psychedelic as Grails , Sleeping People relies on their aggro riffs & exceptional energy. They've been a 2 guitar & drum trio in the beginning for God's sake. Only the closer " People Staying [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted each week. This week - three from Temporary Residence Limited . Click on the artist name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Eluvium - "New Animals From The Air" Sleeping People - "Yellow Guy / Pink Eye" Miss Violetta Beauregarde - "The Unbearable Lightness Of A Farm Tractor"
Wow, deux heures de musique à Branche ton iPod ce soir! Je me suis vraiment gâté à jouer toutes ces pièces disponibles gratuitement et légalement sur le web! Et quand je me gâte, c'est vous, les auditeurs et lecteurys, qui en profitent! Voici donc, sans plus tarder, la playlist de l'émission du 8 octobre. On se revoit jeudi vers 17h15 pour la chronique Branche ton iPod à Change de disque sur les ondes de CKRL ! Kickstart - [...]
Ditty Bops : 2006-03-19, New Braunfels [mp3,ogg,flac]* "Sister Kate (A.J. Piron cover)" [mp3] other Ditty Bops music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws The Frames : 2007-09-08, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Where Is My Mind (Pixies cover)" [mp3] other Frames music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Grace Potter : 2007-08-17, Lyons [mp3,ogg,flac] "Falling [...]
Animal Collective - Sweet Road The Alarmists - Like A Smoke Sleeping People - Yellow Guy/Pink Eye Red Collar - Hands Up Le Loup - God's Wolves Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission Kanye West feat. Chris Martin - Homecoming We Are Scientists - In Action Explosions In The Sky - Yasmin The Light The [...]
Scissorkick loves it some instrumental goodness - especially of the punk-prog-metal variety - and that's just what was delivered when the newest LP from Temporary Residence's Sleeping People showed up in the mailbox. Growing is the second record from the San Diego-based quartet (that now includes Pinback and Howard Hello's Kenseth Thibideau) and it's marked by ten riff-tastic compositions. Solid musicianship, interesting time and tempo changes, and clean accessible songwriting. The benchmarks of the Temporary Residence sound. Unpretentious and approachable, the practice-space prog of "People Staying Awake" is almost 2 songs in one, diverting around [...]
Her Majesty's Orchestra - "Ms. Christmas Tree, I Dig You" I was swayed by the title too. Don't be. This song is strong enough on its own, it rises above "Christmas novelty" into a swaggering, staggering thug of a carol that is only vaguely recognizable as festive. It's Christmas in a tight Union Jack tee. It's like a Friedberger holiday party, where Eleanor, sauced, has lost her voice from reading ingredients lists on all the items in the charity bin. Everybody: salt rennet! tartrazine! sodium phosphates! calcium chloride! [whole album available (I also recommend "You're Gettin' Nothin'")] Sleeping People - [...]
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