‘Escalator’ is much more than can be put into words. It is an album that must not only be heard but experienced at its deepest level. Escalator is a trip. From the obvious, tangible, and recognizable to the transcendent, distant, and unattainable. Between illusion and reality, surreal and concrete. The movement between deep sleep and wide-awake consciousness. A lucid dream.
With their new album “Escalator”, 264 HOURS OF SLEEP lean more towards pop music while continuing along the experimental path set by their self-titled debut album, which Austrian author and radio broadcaster Fritz Ostermayer (radio FM4) described as a “wonderful collection of individual experimental zest.” Their “experimental sound work and idiosyncratic blossoming of sounds” (Michael Ternai, music information center Austria) finds a home in elaborately arranged, avant-garde-tinged pop songs that still maintain their lightness. Out now on Iapetus.
Purchase Cassette: 264 Hours Of Sleep – Escalator
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