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Hurdles

by Sleeper Service

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1.
Annfield Street 00:42
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2.
The Fearful State 01:57
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3.
You Can Always Come Back And Get Another One 01:45
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4.
Clipshear Entropy 02:30
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5.
Obey 01:36
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6.
Understanding Through Numbers 02:32
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7.
Manky Though 02:08
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8.
Lonely Hands 02:08
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9.
Buckin Knew It 02:33
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10.
Destroy Things For The Sake of Art 01:21
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11.
The Dance of The Belly Car 02:24
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12.
Picking Up Again 02:35
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13.
Water Interrupt 02:56
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14.
Dark Fantasy 02:45
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15.
Umpteen Sixty Fours 03:31
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16.
Anxiety Inducer 01:21
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17.
Three In The Morning 02:07
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18.
Planning For Tomorrow 01:14
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19.
Hip Slinging Daughter of Satan 02:57
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20.
And The Kitchen Sink 00:50
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21.
Now 02:57
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about

Think of this album as the audio equivalent of taking a bunch of leftovers, adding in a whole mess of new ingredients, mixing them together and creating an unexpected and beautifully complex dish. It shouldn't work and there certainly should not be as much of it as there is, and yet here we are, with twenty-two densely-packed tracks, built over six months from fragments created during the four years of Sleeper Service's existence. In terms of that past, this is almost a pop album, although in reality is nothing of the kind. Obviously.

The tracks contain a litter of film samples, snatches of speech, metal fragments, found sounds giving rhythm to jazz-tinged vibraphones, shortbread tin Scottish moments, driving electric bass lines, lush strings, fat synths and nods to disco, ska, electro and more. The central idea that hooks everything together is the desire to pack as much as possible into every minute of music, without going totally over the top.

The album is bookended by a layered collage of answer phone messages left for me by my mum over the last few years, each of which almost improbably ends with 'cheerio the now'. My mum, Pat Bremner, passed away just as I was finishing this work. Consequently, I added an epilogue, 'Hurdles', which contains a reading of a poem Mum wrote in the late 1980s and which I only saw for the first time in the weeks after her passing.

For Mum. Thank you for everything.

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released April 16, 2023

Written and performed by Stewart Bremner, except 'Hurdles' which is an interpretation of the poem of the same title by Pat Bremner.

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Sleeper Service Edinburgh, UK

Sleeper Service is the work of Scottish artist Stewart Bremner, an occasional maker of music for his own entertainment since the late nineties. Here be found sounds, field recordings, loud guitars and synths.

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