Australian instrumental post-rock act Sleepmakeswaves has a new single out in ‘Ritual Control’.
“‘Ritual Control’ was first demoed as ‘Dr. Riff Has Arrived‘,” said bassist/keyboardist Alex Wilson. “I still wonder whether we were mistaken to have not kept the old title. Otto originally presented the song skeleton to us with the concern that maybe the riffs were ‘too dumb’. In fact, Tim and I responded, they are the perfect quantity of dumb.
“Sure, these riffs aren’t going to earn a PhD. But they will hold down a full-time job, get the kids to school on time and read the occasional piece of challenging non-fiction on weekends. Courageous and heartfelt conversations like this are the core of what effective post-rock songwriting is all about. New album out next month!”
You can stream ‘Ritual Control’ by clicking here and check out the video here at RAMzine, and that new album is It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It due on Friday 12th April through Bird’s Robe/MGM and Dunk Records, and those other two guy he mentioned are guitarist Otto Wicks-Green and drummer Tim Adderley.
Produced by the band themselves, at Golden Retriever Studios in Sydney, Australia, It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It was written during the pandemic, and originally recorded during 2022 just before the band embarked on a three month tour for their previous EP trilogy, These Are Not Your Dreams.
Further recording was completed in 2023, including string arrangements by Simeon Bartholomew (SEIMS). The record was then mixed by Andrei Eremin (Closure In Moscow, Tash Sultana, G Flip, Luca Brasi) in Philadelphia USA and mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering in Boston USA.
It’s been said that fans of the band’s heavy bombastic aggression will resonate with tracks such as ‘All Hail Skull’ and ‘Ritual Control’. Invigorated melodic and emotive performances and arrangements can be found on ‘Black Paradise’ and ‘Terror Future’.’ Retaining their signature approach to heavy dynamics and crescendos the band are still at their peak when they turn their hand to cataclysmic emotional epics such as the title track and the album closer ‘This Close Forever’.
‘Super Realm Park’ was released earlier in the year as a single and was described as “a majestic return to the classic hallmarks of the band’s melodic post-rock sound, whilst introducing new production and arrangement elements.” You can check out the video here at RAMzine. You can also stream ‘Super Realm Park’ here and here.
Commenting on the album as a whole, the band declared: “The mysterious phase of nothingness, crucial to the smw creative process, is over: our new album is finally done. Thank you so much to all our listeners for your patience. It has been a slow but intense labor of love and we are proud of the songs on this record, and grateful for the many people who helped bring it to life. Hope to see you on the road in 2024, more show announcements to come, and we truly hope the new music we’re about to release resonates with you in the same way it does with us.”
Sleepmakeswaves has added an exclusive UK headline show to their growing world tour dates in support of their forthcoming new album It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It. The band will play at London’s The Garage on Sunday 12th May, with support from fellow Australians and purveyors of doom-jazz, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, as well as English shoegaze group Graywave
You can pre-order the album here and reserve tickets for The Garage in London here.
