January 28, 2025
Released by: Independent
Release Date: February 28th, 2025
Genre: Post Rock
Links: https://sleepersound.bandcamp.com/album/my-own-dead-love
Line Up:
Dave D’Antonio
Mike Campise
Kenny Buesing
Dan Niedziejko
Tracklist:
Let’s Play Wolves
Tread Down
Certain Beasts
Ni Siquiera Tu
Embers
Falling Dream
Soma
The Flesh
Living Ancestor
Out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA comes the band SLEEPERSOUND, and they are formed around Dave D’Antonio, Mike Campise, Kenny Buesing and Dan Niedziejko. My Own Dead Love is their latest album release, in fact a 2025 release I received on vinyl from them. 9 songs are included, and after a calm singer/songwriter acoustic opener called Let’s Play Wolves, Tread Down follows, and this is a lovely uptempo melodic modern sounding tune that combines elements of indie, dreampop and Americana pop/rock, reminding a bit of a mix between BEAR’S DEN, L.A. EDWARDS, FLEET FOXES and THE WAR ON DRUGS. This song feels very natural and pleasant to the ears for sure, with a certain radio hit potency. Certain Beasts is up next, and this is a mixture of shoegaze, indie pop and dreampop balladry, with a slow midtempo 90s kinda alternative rock vibe. Side-A of the vinyl album closes nicely with Ni Siquera Tu, a nice dark post-rock adventure that is based around a simple calm repetitive progrocking melody with once again beautiful dreampop vocals.
Side-B opens with Embers, a lovely midtempo melodic pop/rocker with strong vocals and a biting beat that grabs you quite well. Following Falling Dream is introducing some synthwave sounds, which makes it a very cool song actually, as it melts dreampop with a sorta post-prog/krautrocking vibe as if we’re back in the mid psychedelic 1970s again. Soma is actually quite a superb instrumental post-progrocking piece a la MOTORPSYCHO, while The Flesh is a short calmer song, and closing track Living Ancestor is a nice dreampop shoegaze mashup with a psychedelic touch.
Concluded, SLEEPERSOUND has released a very interesting original record that musically speaking explores different areas, and this is one of those albums you listen to over and over again, as you will discover a lot of new things every time. This makes it a highly recommended album to especially fans of shoegaze, post-progrock, indie and such.
Written by: Gabor Kleinbloesem
Ratings: Gabor 8/10
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