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No Safe Place EP

by sleepmakeswaves

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‘No Safe Place’, featuring the singles ‘Cascades’ and ‘the endings that we write’ is the first new music from Australian post-rock band sleepmakeswaves in 3 years, following their ARIA-nominated albums Made of Breath Only (2017) and Love of Cartography (2014).

The opening track ‘the endings that we write’ is an opus of climactic proportions – long time fans of the band will recognise their penchant for writing epic, progressive, driving, heavy pieces. This is one of their best and most brooding.

‘Batavia’ is a driving up tempo rocker featuring wailing guitars and thundering toms, which gives way to the tender electronic touch of ‘time wants a skeleton’ featuring a soft repeated motif that gives way to a Boards of Canada/65daysofstatic-esque peak.

The final track (and the first single released from the EP back in January) ‘Cascades’ features the band’s trademark instrumental swells and soaring melodies over a lumbering rhythmic base, before unfolding to reveal an surprising turn for the instrumental band: vocals. Although the band have experimented with vocals on album tracks since their debut in 2011, this is the first single that the band have produced featuring a lead vocal melody (sung by guitarist Otto Wicks-Green). The track closes with an epic flourish in true sleepmakeswaves fashion, as the lyrics ring out.

The EP is from a new trilogy announced by the band called ‘these are not your dreams.’ All tracks have been entirely self produced, recorded & mixed by the band. Rather than following a conventional release pattern, the band have opted to release this collection of tracks as a series of 3 EPs during 2020.

From the band:

‘these are not your dreams’ refers to how modern life is rubbish and the internet is invading our brains. It’s control through disorientation and the manipulation of ‘your dreams.’

Every song from this series has been an experiment in how far we can push ourselves creatively and sonically... because what else is there?

There's so much going on all the time, why do people need more?

We've set ourselves the challenge of answering that question every day we've worked on our material.

And we wanted to work harder than ever to justify it in an age of limitless novelty.

We're producing all of these as a one-time limited edition release & we're happy to be using recycled materials to produce these physical products wherever possible, as well as offsetting the carbon footprint for the other merch packages.

It’s been a long time coming. If you're still here, we hope you understand how grateful we are to have your support after all these years. We're proud and excited to share this with you, and we want to thank our dear friend and manager Mike for sticking with us to see this through. That's it from us.

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released July 26, 2020

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