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Sleep - The Clarity

Review by Brian Coney

Unmistakably Sleep to its monolithic, ear-shagging core»

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Finally...a new Sleep song!!! The first new song from the masters since their life changing, anthemic 63 minutes and 36 second opus to marijuana: Dopesmoker (1999). The Clarity on side A, Etching on side B. Artwork (Etching) by David V. D’Andrea. Mastered by John Golden. Recorded by Noah Landis. The Clarity 12” was previously only available directly from the band via their merch table or online web-store. This Southern Lord version has been recut by Adam Gonsalves / Telegraph Mastering and pressed on 180 gram vinyl at RTI. The Lord version also has the ultra heavy-weight vinyl housed in a thick plastic picture disc style sleeve with the iconic Sleep logo silk-screened on the front. While there may have been a few like them before them, there were none like them really and certainly none after them. And so in 2009 when they were reborn with Cisneros who’d been reframing the world with the band Om, Matt Pike doing double duty with this and his High on Fire, and the estimable Jason Roeder doing the same with Neurosis, Sleep did what it had done and what it had left to do. Largely and without pause, make music in tune with The Ages.
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