Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced the release of the first track taken from American ambient guitarist Sleeping Me’s debut album Cradlesongs.
Cradlesongs is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, the acceptance of distance and disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. This is no more true than for the sublime melancholy that is ‘Legs Like Gravestone’, the first track to be lifted from the album. Elegant, hopeful and infused with a sad beauty, ‘Legs Like Gravestone’ plays out like an elegy to fallen greatness as much as a passage back to the amniotic haze – an eternal return.
Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.
‘Legs Like Gravestone’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store until the release of Cradlesongs on 26th May 2009. Download a full press release here.
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