Release
date: June 06th 2017. Label: Art As Catharsis. Format: CD/DD
A
Sleepless Grey – Tracklisting
1.We Stare Into The
Sky
2.A Sleepless Grey
3.The Earth Begins
To Shake
4.The Spinning Wheel
5.Feast Of Fools
6.This Sinking
Feeling
7.When The Knot
Unties
Members:
Mick Kaslik - vocals, korg, fx
Steve Kachoyan - drums
Matt Williams - bass
Lachlan R. Dale - guitar
Ron Prince - guitar
Review
Aussie Sludge/Doom
Metal collective - Adrift For Days - finally return with their epic
third album - A Sleepless Grey. Five years have passed since their
last album and Adrift For Days have become angrier since then.
Whilst
Adrift For Days earlier albums had elements of Fuzz, Psych, Drone,
Space Rock and Stoner Metal sounds, this album sees the band create a
more direct bleak Sludge/Doom/Drone/Post-Metal sound. Taking
influences from Earth and Neurosis this time round, Adrift For Days
have delivered their most thrilling and well-rounded album yet.
Opening track - We
Stare Into The Sky - embraces the classic earlier AFD sound with the
whispery vocals from - Mick - against a more drone/post-rock sound.
The heavy murkier sounds that Neurosis has created on their last few
albums make their presence felt here but the band play a slower kind
of music. The sludge/doom rhythms offer a kind of realism not heard
in the band's music before. Maybe the band has become more
disillusioned with the world around them. The lyrics have a cold feel
to them and that vibe is carried throughout the album.
The band is known for
blending different sounds and creating something different to their
more famous musical peers. I'm happy to report this is evident yet
again. Adrift For Days whilst offering something familiar, the album
has its own identity within the epic sixty minute run-time. The songs
run past the eight to nine minute mark and that allows Adrift For
Days to create different sounds for each individual song.
Songs such as A
Sleepless Grey, The Earth Begins To Shake, Forest Of Fools and When
The Knot Unties - offer bleak moments of sonic experimentation.
Adrift For Days seem to thrive alienating their loyal core audience
and that makes A Sleeping Grey such an uncompromising and thrilling
album to listen to. The band has taken their earlier sounds and give
it an apocalyptic makeover. There are moments of nightmarish
desert/drone/folk sounds that are powerful enough to give Dylan
Carson of Earth surreal nightmares for years to come. The
instrumental work is what you expect from the band - first rate.
This is perhaps their
heaviest and most progressive offering to date. The production is the
main highlight as the band has never sounded so good. The
Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal sounds have hidden extra depth especially on
the latter stages of the album. All in all, A Sleepless Grey is a
sees Adrift For Days finally in control of their own musical destiny.
Hopefully this album will propel them onto a bigger stage as they now
have the songs and confidence to make a lasting impression on the
international stage.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks to Art As
Catharsis for the promo. A Sleepless Grey will be available to buy on
CD/DD via Art As Catharsis from June 06th
2017.
