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Sleep Post New Single “The Clarity”

Thank you, gods of riff.

It’s the first new Sleep track since Dopesmoker, and the first song Sleep have produced with the lineup of founding vocalist/bassist Al Cisneros (Om), founding guitarist Matt Pike (High on Fire) and drummer Jason Roeder (Neurosis), who came aboard a few years back in place of Chris Hakius. Those who’ll take it on — which should be everybody above the age of seven or under it — will find Sleep‘s classic and pioneering Sabbath worship intact over the course of the song’s meandering, near-10-minute crawl, starting out with a compressed nod of the central riff as though a machine was lurching to life. Cisneros brings his Om-style cleaner vocals to the proceedings, rather than the rougher shouts one might find on 1993’s classic Sleep’s Holy Mountain. Important to remember that was 22 years ago now.

Of course, Sleep have been playing live shows for half a decade on and off, and those have featured material either put together or resurrected from the days following Dopesmoker, but “The Clarity” is the first studio output they’ve had since the reunion began. Any new Sleep at all is obviously one of the year’s biggest advents, regardless of the song itself, but the gargantuan roll that unfolds throughout “The Clarity” and the way the song wanders and jams out to its sudden stop after its weedian verses bodes very, very well for the long-awaited and rumored and speculated-upon full-length that still may or may not be in the works. Hopefully it is. It’s hard not to get excited about the prospect of a new Sleep album listening to “The Clarity,” since the dynamic at the heart of the band is clearly alive and well. And stoned. Dig the subtle “War Pigs” nod before Pike‘s solo in the midsection. Fucking hell these guys kill.

New Sleep. What more do you need out of a Friday afternoon?

Sleep‘s “The Clarity” will be available as a free download starting Monday via the Adult Swim Singles Series. For now this’ll do.

Dig it:

Sleep, “The Clarity”

Adult Swim Singles Series

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4 Responses to “Sleep Post New Single “The Clarity””

  1. andy goldstein says:

    fucking yes–SLEEP ARE BACK!!!

  2. Jose Humberto says:

    Im crying

  3. Harvey Milk Kee says:

    Knocked down, draggin myself into a corner to pray and ponder

  4. AWESOME!

    We’re ready for even more! Nice job guys :))

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