Sundowning

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The four tracks were a new version of the album's closing track "Blood Sport" (for which a music video was also released), a new track entitled "Shelter", and cover versions of Billie Eilish's "When the Party's Over" and Whitney Houston's " I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". Bury me inside this labyrinth bed” perhaps indicates Sleep’s co-dependency on his Vessels, making them almost like a tomb.

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By “ Sugar”, Vessel is addicted to Sleep and cannot leave, despite the line “ addicted to the pain” showing he knows it’s not necessarily good for him.Recorded at G1 Productions in Wells, Somerset, it was produced by George Lever and released on 21 November 2019 as the band's first release on Spinefarm Records. In addition to the sexual undertones, pushing “ down into membranes and layers, creating a slow dissection” alludes to a wanton penetration of the mind and body – Sleep slowly taking over Vessel more and more completely.

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Bind runes are additive, so it’s impossible to definitively state its constituents, but to me it seems that four runes make up the visualised band name: dagaz – ᛞ, tiwaz – ᛏ, uruz – ᚢ and eihwaz – ᛇ, as well as a fifth which seems to represent Vessel or Sleep in some way (the masks of the other band members bear seven prongs rather than five). Y ou turn the lights down, come and find out,” is potentially the most multifarious line in the song: there is the obvious, sensual connotation, but also turning down the lights indicates Vessel lying down to slip into dreams, wherein he can communicate with Sleep more easily.Potentially, the definition of a fraction, in addition to noting shattered mental state, as part of a whole implies that as Sleep changes the Vessels, so too does each Vessel change Him. To quote a dear heathen on this very site, “motherf ucking christ 90% of [this] sleep token album is just ballads”, and while this is somewhat hyperbolic, there’s an air of truth to the sentiment. Following the release of Sundowning, the first full studio album by British experimental rock band “Sleep Token”, the deluxe was released to streaming platforms and features acoustic covers from their Lafayette show in April, 2022. Despite a supremely witchy aesthetic that hints at the gloomiest doom unearthed from some rotting catacomb, the main fabric of their debut is a mix of chilling electronics and otherworldly pop, with a sinister heaviness only intruding on the fringes. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.