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Artist | The Comsat Angels
Title | Sleep No More
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 104:05
Label | Demon Music Group Store | 2015
Catalog | EDSK 7087 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 246 kbps Size | 193.00 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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CD 1/2
01. The Eye Dance 3:41
02. Sleep No More 2:51
03. Be Brave 3:49
04. Gone 3:27
05. Dark Parade 5:07
06. Diagram 3:52
07. Restless 3:14
08. Goat Of The West 3:22
09. Light Years 4:24
10. Our Secret 4:10
11. Eye Of The Lens (Bonus Track) 4:03
12. Another World (Bonus Track) 4:40
13. At Sea (Bonus Track) 4:24
CD 2/2
01. Mass (Bonus Track) 3:48
02. Dark Parade 1 (Demo) (Bonus Track) 5:01
03. Goat Of The West (Demo) (Bonus Track) 4:10
04. Be Brave (Demo) (Bonus Track) 3:51
05. Gone (Alt. EP Version) (Bonus Track) 3:13
06. Be Brave (John Peel Session) 3:54
07. At Sea (John Peel Session) 4:09
08. Eye Of The Lens (John Peel Session) 3:58
09. Dark Parade (John Peel Session) 5:10
10. Gone (Richard Skinner Show) 3:24
11. Total War (Richard Skinner Show) 4:53
12. Eye Dance (Richard Skinner Show) 3:31
13. Be Brave (Richard Skinner Show) 3:59
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Erroneously regarded as a synth pop band - and, every now and then, as a
band that peaked with a song placed in a scene of Real Genius - The Comsat
Angels were one of the finest bands of the post-punk/new wave era. Often as
moody if less dramatic than Joy Division, their first and best albums -
1980's Waiting For A Miracle", 1981's "Sleep No More", and 1982's "Fiction"
- featured abstract pop songs with sparse instrumentation, many of which
were bleak and filled with some form of heartache. The albums were almost
unrelentingly sullen, but they were always transfixing. The band then fell
prey to various commercial pressures for several years. In the 90s they
resurfaced with a pair of powerful albums that resembled logical extensions
of their earliest work, and then they vanished again.
"Sleep No More", the second Comsat Angels album, is a confident follow-up
that contains a tighter and more cutting version of "Waiting For A Miracle"
and its alluring insularity. Going by "Eye Dance", the torrid opener, one
might expect a more aggressive affair, but that's not necessarily the case.
The album turns out to be neither as pop nor as fast, with a majority of
the material playing out at a dirge-like pace. There were no singles. Like
Magazine's "Secondhand Daylight", or the Sound's "All Fall Down", "Sleep No
More" can be a trudge and quite bleak, perhaps even impenetrable at times.
However, as with "Waiting For A Miracle", the dynamics of the album become
increasingly perceptible with each play, and the slowest, austerest
passages begin to seem as intense as the few that slam and punch. With the
exception of "Restless", a mood piece of harmonic flickers, light whispers,
and low throb, the album is driven by Mik Glaisher's booming drums, which
were recorded in a manner - near a lift shaft, to be precise, with
microphones placed on six surrounding floors - that makes the album wholly
enveloping and, occasionally, imposing (imagine Joy Division's 'I Remember
Nothing' and Talking Heads' 'The Overload' on top of one another, doubled
in heaviness).
The subject matter: not a big surprise, given the title of the album, with
further adventures in malfunctioning-relationship purgatory, along with
topical matter like "Dark Parade" (about the volatile hostage situation at
the US Embassy in Tehran), a song that hardly repeals the level of turmoil
expressed elsewhere. Regardless of the continued strength in the
songwriting, it's impossible not to get caught up in the album's sounds.
The title track overwhelms with its swirling layers of guitar and keyboards
over an unchanging drum pattern.
The storming "Goat Of The West" wastes no time in whipping itself into a
controlled frenzy of churning guitars, punishing drums, and bewildered
vocals ('Did you see what happened?/It's so funny that I'm not laughing').
On "At Sea", the rhythm section does the riffing, with Glaisher's thumping
drums suctioned to Kevin Bacon's cavernous bass. While it's not as easy to
enjoy as "Waiting For A Miracle" - for a lot of listeners, it's that kind
of album that requires some mental preparation - "Sleep No More" is
certainly more powerful, and it's also a greater achievement. Here, The
Comsat Angels became one of the era's most exceptional bands.
Remastered deluxe edition featuring the original studio album plus bonus
tracks including b-sides and sessions.
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