Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Psychedelic/Space Rock | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 162 / 7-8-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 8.5/10 | Label: Dine Alone | Autor: SaS
Can Mauis, the giant stone statues on Easter Island that bear witness to a mysterious lost civilization, cry? Sleepy Sun ask this question on their fourth album, which follows the path taken on their masterpiece "Fever". Forget the strangely sterile sound of the rightly scolded predecessor "Spine Hits"; but also forget the vocal parts of Rachel Fannan, who left the band in the middle of the "Fever" tour in 2010. Fannan is still missing, even though the band managed to arrange their sound in a way that a second female vocalist is not missing from the songs anymore. The result is a far more psychedelic sounding overall impression, as Sleepy Sun try more than ever before to bring the vastness and wasteland of the Californian desert into soundscapes. The vocals sound as if they come from far away due to numerous reverb effects; in this they remind of the vocal use of David Eugene Edwards on the last Wovenhand albums. It's especially the longer songs that inspire, especially the epic title track that concludes the album: Here the band is intoxicated, the instrumental passages create endless desert landscapes in front of the listener's mind, through which people move and become one with nature. This is how you have to perceive this music: As an endless state of intoxication, where the songs result in a single flow, which is created by consciously repetitive rhythmic patterns. Conclusion: Sleepy Sun have finally recorded the legitimate successor to "Fever", but at the same time have expanded their sound spectrum in a fascinating way.
Top track: Maui Tears
