ARTIST: Arms and Sleepers
TITLE: Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive
LABEL: Fake Chapter Records
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 199kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 33m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-12-05
RIP DATE: 2007-02-20
Track List
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1. Beneath Bricks And Books 3:05
2. A Mission To Prague 5:48
3. Arms/Sleepers 5:09
4. Warm 4:07
5. A Girl Named Clive 3:37
6. Moscow Pop 4:37
7. (untitled) 6:46
Release Notes:
Gliding by on their lofty ambient music, Arms and SleepersÆ debut EP, ôBliss Was
It In That Dawn To Be Alive,ö is a delicate and soft beginning to this
Massachusetts-based bandÆs recorded career. The seven mostly instrumental tracks
on ôBlissö are rich with feeling as the weightless music invigorates you with
its thoughtful and deliberate melodies.
Gentle percussion melts into a chiming melody and the band embed vocals and
horns into ôA Mission to Pragueö while, similarly, ôArms/Sleepersö remains on
the light side as it drifts in and out. Desolate and atmospheric, ôA Girl Named
Cliveö offers an echoing soundscape that sets your mind racing to put an image
to the dense and textured music, such as a far away lonely planet somewhere.
Arms and Sleepers work from the ground up for ôWarm,ö layering the rhythmic
electronics with piano and falsetto vocals as the energy builds while on the
spacey ôMoscow Pop,ö electronic pulses pop, sputter and blend in with other
instrumentation for a warm and catchy result. Arms and Sleepers offer one last
sleepy number to pull it all together as the horns from earlier return to mingle
with a twinkling keyboard melody for a light but effective result on
ô(Untitled).ö
Dreamy and often with a far away feeling, Arms and Sleepers make ôBliss Was It
In That Dawn To Be Aliveö into a virtual vacation. The bandÆs sleepy melodies
offer a sense of tranquility while still keeping listeners engaged. Arms and
Sleepers soar in with their multilayered sound on ôBliss Was It In That Dawn To
Be Aliveö and make you forget that this debut EP is only their introduction.