Neues Album der Instrumental Post Rrocker Sleepmakeswaves
Hier der neue Track und die Albumankündigung der Instrumental Post-Rocker Sleepmakeswaves aus Australien.
13.03. sleepmakeswaves - "Ritual Control" official audio (Bird's Robe/Records/Bandcamp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH7yfMwL_cI
Neues Album:
12.04. sleepmakeswaves – "It's Here, But I Have No Names For It" (Bird's Robe/Records/MGM)
sleepmakeswaves - "Super Realm Park"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXO4arUvZ5Y (official audio)
Teaser Video in Form eines 80er RPGs
https://youtu.be/7m1fugpDVU4?si=txQF15I0QSlJmQ9T
Album hier erhältlich:
https://www.sleepmakeswaves.com/store
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0EnDtiDrCgklr97QMJOSPv
https://sleepmakeswaves.bandcamp.com/album/its-here-but-i-have-no-names-for-it
https://music.apple.com/au/artist/sleepmakeswaves/491765647
sleepmakeswaves Release New Single ‘Ritual Control’ from forthcoming album
Australian instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves have released another single from their forthcoming album "It's Here, But I Have No Names For It" following the addition of two more US shows to their growing world tour dates.
The band took to social media to tell fans about the new single: "Ritual Control was first demoed as Dr. Riff Has Arrived. I still wonder whether we were mistaken to have not kept the old title. Otto originally presented the song skeleton to us with the concern that maybe the riffs were "too dumb". In fact, Tim and I responded, they are the *perfect quantity* of dumb. Sure, these riffs aren't going to earn a PhD. But they will hold down a full-time job, get the kids to school on time and read the occasional piece of challenging non-fiction on weekends. Courageous and heartfelt conversations like this are the core of what effective post-rock songwriting is all about. New album out next month!"
The new album ‘It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It’ was produced by the band themselves, at Golden Retriever Studios in Sydney, Australia. Written during the pandemic, it was originally recorded during 2022 just before the band embarked on a 3 month tour for their previous EP trilogy ‘these are not your dreams.’ Further recording was completed in 2023, including string arrangements by Simeon Bartholomew (SEIMS). The record was then mixed by Andrei Eremin (Closure in Moscow, Tash Sultana, G Flip, Luca Brasi) in Philadelphia USA and mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering in Boston USA.
The first single ‘Super Realm Park’, prefiguring the record as a whole, is a majestic return to the classic hallmarks of the band’s melodic post-rock sound, whilst introducing new production and arrangement elements. Fans of the band’s heavy bombastic aggression will resonate with tracks such as ‘All Hail Skull’ and ‘Ritual Control.’ They also shine with invigorated melodic and emotive performances and arrangements on tracks like ‘Black Paradise’ and ‘Terror Future.’ Retaining their signature approach to heavy dynamics and crescendos the band are still at their unmatched peak when they turn their hand to cataclysmic emotional epics such as the title track and the album closer ‘This Close Forever.’
The band released a statement to fans, saying: The mysterious phase of nothingness, crucial to the smw creative process, is over: our new album is finally done. Thank you so much to all our listeners for your patience. It has been a slow but intense labor of love and we are proud of the songs on this record, and grateful for the many people who helped bring it to life. Hope to see you on the road in 2024, more show announcements to come, and we truly hope the new music we’re about to release resonates with you in the same way it does with us.
sleepmakeswaves UK/EU tour 2024
Sat 11 May – Dunk Festival, Zottegem BELGIUM
+ more to be announced
More about sleepmakeswaves
It’s been a crazy decade for sleepmakeswaves, the little Sydney quartet who dreamed big. Hundreds of shows amongst 16 Australian tours, 6 European tours, 2 North American tours, 2 Asian & New Zealand tours…Unexpected critical acclaim including 3 ARIA nominations, 2 AIR Award nominations and a nomination for a J Award, amongst highly rated reviews from Rolling Stone, The Music, The Independent and more. Airplay including 3 songs added to triple j rotation, spending a combined 20 weeks in the CMJ Top 200 at US college radio and airing on BBC6. Even a glimmer of brief commercial success with 2 ARIA Top 40 albums and a #1 spot on the 100% Independent Chart for ‘Made of Breath Only.’ They even cracked the Top 100 in Kazakhstan. Formed via an ad on Myspace (remember that?), the band’s story started online and they continue to benefit from fans sharing their music on the internet. From their debut unexpectedly clocking up 50,000 downloads online, to hitting 200,000 views as the soundtrack to a romantic ‘Twilight’ movie fan video, or as the thumping opening theme for the AFL football season coverage on Channel 7, sleepmakeswaves’ music has always taken a life of its own amongst fans online. Recently, their triple j Like A Version tribute to Robert Miles’ ‘Children’ hit close to 1 million spins online, as did their Metallica tribute ‘To Live Is To Die’, whilst the band’s Spotify listeners top 1 million worldwide. However, the story of the band is not complete without a nod to the work put in on the live stage. Amongst the 300+ live dates played over the past few years, the band have visited 30 countries and headlined sold out shows on 5 continents. They’ve played festivals including SXSW (USA), ArcTangent (UK), Euroblast (Germany), Dunk Festival (Belgium), Strawberry Festival (China) & NH7 Weekender (India). They’ve toured with and befriended a host of iconic and diverse acts – Karnivool, COG, Devin Townsend, Underoath, Russian Circles and many more. They’ve forged links with and created touring opportunities for many of their international peers in Australia – 65daysofstatic, Rosetta, The Contortionist, This Will Destroy You, And So I Watch You From Afar and more. They fulfilled a decade-long dream in their hometown by headlining Sydney’s iconic Metro Theatre to a packed house and recording the show for triple j’s Live at the Wireless (going on to headline there several more times). Despite all these unprecedented milestones, most importantly, their biggest achievement has been to endure and continue making music and performing for their fans. Through lineup changes, an ever-more-difficult economic climate for independent niche artists, theft of money and equipment, computers crashing, lost baggage, injuries, illness, operations, failed relationships, fire alarms, red tape and more, this band has maintained the passion and enthusiasm to continue creating. Their fans have supported them – through pre-order campaigns to make new albums, through ticket sales, merch sales and social media, through images shared of tattoos, gifts of birthday cakes in Poland, drinks in Hungary, videos of cover versions from India, tour guides in China, or just a handshake and a smile at the merch desk after the show. So…the continuation of this band is an ongoing a celebration of all that. A way to say thank you for everything, with a quick glance backwards, before continuing on with many more new things to come.
Expect plenty of surprises, new music and one heck of a live post-rock show from this hard-working still-young band.
sleepmakeswaves discography:
Live at the Metro (2021)
these are not your dreams EP trilogy (2020)
‘To Live Is To Die’ (Metallica tribute) (2018)
‘Children’ (Robert Miles – Like A Version) (2017)
‘Made of Breath Only’ album (2017) feat. ‘Tundra’ & ‘Midnight Sun’
‘Love of Cartography’ album (2014) feat. ‘Something Like Avalanches’ & ‘Great Northern’ & ‘traced in constellations’
‘…and then they remixed everything’ (2013)
‘…and so we destroyed everything’ album (2011) feat. ‘(hello) Cloud Mountain’ & ‘in limbs and joints’ & ‘now we rise and we are everywhere’
split EP with tangled thoughts of leaving (2009) feat. ‘we sing the body electric’ & ‘keep your splendid silent sun’
‘in today, already walks tomorrow’ EP (2008) feat. ‘One day you will teach me to let go of my fears’ & ‘it’s dark, it’s cold, it’s winter’
Watch ‘Great Northern’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZl0Vr7mgeY
Watch ‘Something Like Avalanches’ (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnqqATlYPaw
Watch ‘The Stars Are Stigmata’ (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGvznRV6gy8
Watch ‘To Live Is To Die’ (Metallica): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ektGmfe1wwM
Watch ‘Children’ (Robert Miles) – triple j Like A Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De8I6O1VfAg
Quelle: cmm-consulting for music and media