Artist: sleepmakeswaves
Title: It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Bird’s Robe Records
Distribution: MGM
Genre: Post-Rock
Release Date: 12/04/2024
Australian instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves have announced they will tour Australia, Europe and the USA in support of their new album It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It, due out April 12, 2024 on Bird’s Robe Records/ MGM.
The new album 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 instrumental band sleepmakeswaves
Decided rock music they must save
In the year twenty twenty four
Fans were clamouring for more
So they dropped a new record
It’s a rave!”
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. – Love smw“
The band will kick off their world tour in Australia in April, playing shows in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane with support from Taiwanese math rock legends Elephant Gym and fellow Australian post-rock veterans Meniscus.
sleepmakeswaves will then return to Europe in May to headline Belgium’s Dunk Festival, and North America to co-headline PostFest in Indianapolis in July. Further shows will be added.
Tracklist
1. All Hail Skull
2. Super Realm Park
3. Ritual Control
4. Black Paradise
5. Verdigris
6. Terror Future
7. It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It
8. This Close Forever
sleepmakeswaves Australian tour 2024
w/Elephant Gym (Taiwan) & Meniscus
Fri 26 April – Max Watts, Melbourne VIC
Sat 27 April – Manning Bar, Sydney NSW
Sun 28 April – The Triffid, Brisbane QLD
+ more to be announced
sleepmakeswaves UK/EU tour 2024
Sat 11 May – Dunk Festival, Zottegem BELGIUM
+ more to be announced
sleepmakeswaves USA tour 2024
25-27 July – PostFest, Indianapolis INDIANA
+ more to be announced
Links
Order: https://sleepmakeswaves.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sleepmakeswavesaus
Facebook: https://facebook.com/sleepmakeswaves
Label: https://birdsrobe.com
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