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Through The Window

by Sleeper Service

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1.
Do Not Move 07:02
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That Orange Bastard 03:22
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We Will Dance On Their Graves 03:08
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4.
The End of Mondays 02:48
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Sixty Four Thousand 06:09
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Line Dweller 08:00
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The Dirty Window 04:14
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8.
Three Steps 03:41
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9.
Living In The Past 09:04
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Through The Window finds Sleeper Service in a more abrasive mood, with a fuller reliance on metal guitars than on previous adventures. The album brings together those guitars with the Sleeper Service’s typical found sounds and the vintage synth scapes that flowered into being on the last album, On A Quiet Afternoon.

Parts of album began gestation as much as a year ago, however it was not until the depths of the Covid-19 crisis that they were brought together with new material to create this darker composition.

‘Do Not Move’ builds slowly, lines of guitars layering atop each other until a metal riff drops everything else away. The riff is angry and it never stops throughout the song, never flaunts the rules and absolutely does not leave the house.

‘That Orange Bastard’ begins with a militaristic beat that marches into a squall of heavy guitar and squelchy synthesiser. There’s underlying menace here, partially hidden by the farcical synth blarps.

‘We Will Dance On Their Graves’ is a full-tilt, twin-guitar metal run down, replete with synth accents. The tempo runs up and the tempo runs down, but the intensity does not let go. Is it the dance of the rich on all of our graves, or the dance of the masses celebrating a new world?

‘The End of Mondays’ starts with the beating of typewriter keys, signalling a percussion-led blast that continues into deep synths into more metal. Ask why you don’t like Mondays and if you still feel that way, set free from the endless repetition of their mundanity.

‘Sixty Four Thousand’ is the first pause for breath on the album, a slow, deep and queasy dawning realisation of darkness. The numbers keep rising and no one seems to care.

‘Line Dweller’ steps back up the pace, speeding with a motoric beat into a single chord meander and endless looping lines, that run in and around each other while never touching.

‘The Dirty Window’ brings the synthesisers to the fore, dropping guitars entirely. Bleeping and squelching maximally, it tries not to lose its shit when it looks outside.

‘Three Steps’ takes us back into metal and is the drop-C deepest of the lot. It wants you to step aside, seriously, and not breath in its direction.

‘Living in the Past’ is the longest track finale and a rare outing for the voice of the creator. Centred around a synth line and a mantra-like vocal repetition, it returns to found sounds, while nodding somewhat in the direction of music-concrete legends Einstürzende Neubauten. We’re all living in the past. Can we embrace a new future?

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released June 4, 2020

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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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