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Sleep
Singer-Songwriter · 2012 · 13 tracks · 52m

Sleep

Flatsound

A fragile collection of bedroom folk and spoken word. Tape hiss and whispered vocals create a soundscape that feels like reading a stolen diary.

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It's like listening to someone's most private thoughts through a thin apartment wall.

A profound, quiet isolation that feels both claustrophobic and deeply comforting.

Sleep · vs · Flatsound
Acoustic Guitar+0.7σ

The instrumentation foregrounds acoustic guitar a touch more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 52m
01
Sleep
3:05
02
If You Love Me, Come Clean
3:40
03
Summer or Spring
5:01
04
You Are the Coffin
4:13
05
Don't Call Me at All
3:45
06
To See You Alive
2:59
07
It's Thursday, January 12th and This Is the Last Time I'll Talk About Drowning
3:09
08
On the Porch of a Home Built in 1943
7:42
09
You Know How to Make a Boy Feel Warm
4:39
10
You Know How to Make a Man Feel Useless
3:22
11
Lillian
3:15
12
Consciousness
2:55
13
We'll Hope for a Good Day
4:17
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarringly intimate spoken word delivery on track 7 that feels like a direct confession.
The way the acoustic guitar strings buzz against the frets during the quietest passages of track 4.
The ambient drift that swallows the melody at the end of the title track, mimicking the onset of unconsciousness.
Sits BesideSee all
did everything feel beautiful when you let go of the idea of being anything at all
did everything feel beautiful when you let go of the idea of being anything at all
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Uprooted
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Dear…
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Off White
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Reject
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2022

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