Name: Sleep Party People (10th Anniversary Edition)
Brand: Sleep Party People

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

JNR241lp-C1

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Colour

Gold

Colour details

Pale Gold

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-02-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

753936907393

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / gold

Artist

Sleep Party People

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Joyful Noise Recordings

Sleep Party People is a one-man Danish indie band that combines elements of acoustic folk, dream pop, and electronic music to create a unique sound. With influences ranging from Cemeteries to Blonde Redhead, Sleep Party People's music is both captivating and ethereal.
Known for their atmospheric melodies and haunting vocals, Sleep Party People has gained a dedicated following in the indie music scene. Their songs have a dreamlike quality that transports listeners to another world.
If you enjoy artists like Giles Corey or Grouper, then Sleep Party People's music will resonate with you. Their ability to blend different genres seamlessly sets them apart from other musicians in the industry.

Sitting in his bedroom in Copenhagen one evening in 2008, arched over a shivering piano in the twilit cool, Brian Batz found himself measuring out sounds in cascading waves. Centuries earlier, beloved avant-garde composer Erik Satie declined the term musician, instead declaring himself a phonometrician--someone who measures sounds. The aching and otherworldly “Third Drawer Down”--the product of Batz’s 2 a.m. chording--reflects an ecstatic phonometric approach for his first album under the moniker Sleep Party People. Full of arcane arrangements, broken and secondhand instruments, and manipulated vocals, the self-titled record has redoubled in mystic strength on the verge of its 10-year anniversary reissue, via Joyful Noise Recordings. 

Batz began working on Sleep Party People as an alternative outlet from the band he’d been playing with, the opportunity to opt for the obscure decisions and creative idiosyncrasies on his own. Without proper recording equipment or fancy gear, that meant summoning together the misfit musical tools in his apartment--including a busted piano, an outdated Roland TR-505 drum machine, a keyboard, a handful of assorted guitar pedals, and an acoustic guitar that the kindergarten where he worked was going to throw away.

The completed record swims through a dizzying sea of haunting imagery and clever musical turns: the fluffy winter afternoon of “Our Falling Snow”, the pulsating MicroKorg pop of “10 Feet Up”. The inspiration from the tracks ranges from the surreal to the ultra-real; “The Dwarf and the Horse” utilizes silverware and water glasses for a percussion base inspired by a Lynchian dream of the titular characters, while “Notes to You” was inspired by a letter Batz wrote to his father and eventually tore up rather than send. 

And as the years passed, more and more homemade bunny masks have made their way into the crowd, fans around the world eager to join the journey, singing along--even if Batz’s lyrics are more impressionistic than crystalline sentences. “People write out my lyrics all the time and they’re always wrong,” he says. “But even still, they capture the feeling.” Therein lies the sublime magic of Sleep Party People, a record that conveys equal depth and power to countless listeners despite no two seeing it exactly the same way. 

Sleep Party People (10th Anniversary Edition)

Music US