Video: Gabriel Bruce - Sleep Paralysis

Falling under the spell of Leonard Cohen , Nick Cave, and Nicolas Jaar as of late should lead one to the obvious conclusion of how much I am digging Gabriel Bruce's single "Sleep Paralysis".  Like each of the aforementioned artists, Bruce is a bass-heavy crooner that falls somewhere between overly dramatic and just plain evil.  "Sleep Paralysis" seeps in with a raw organ back drop as Bruce's thick vocals melt over a depraved melody.  Despite its overly dark sentiment ("I got this feeling that we're dead and there's nothing wrong") Bruce manages to keep you holding on [...]

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Gabriel Bruce - Sleep Paralysis

Gabriel Bruce's sleep paralysis has got that baritone comparative to The National, with similar spooky qualities of Timber Timbre or Leonard Cohen. It moves with the interplay of dark and light (sleep/wake) to the minimal sound of an organ and Bruce repeating, "I got this feeling that we're dead". It strikes me at a good time- now that it gets darker, earlier, now that I've been listening to way too much Radiolab , and watching too many late-night documentaries. The video coincides with a debut 73 release via the London art collective Off [...]

Gabriel Bruce is new to the scene yet articles on him drop names like Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Johnny Cash - quite the start. His voice his deep, his sound lugubrious, the atmosphere he creates quite sinister. The percussion on his debut single Sleep Paralysis is subtle, yet very present when you expect/want it to be. Pre-order the Sleep Paralysis/No Love Lost 7” here ; it comes with an illustrated book which looks into the phenomenon of the songs title (a phenomenon where there might be [...]