Sleep – Hempispheres (CD)
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Al Cisneros has been holding down the low end and the cosmic philosophy of Sleep since their early 90s Bay Area beginnings, and his bass tone alone remains one of the most recognizable sounds in heavy music. The lineup assembled for Hempispheres draws from some of the most uncompromising corners of American underground rock, with Crover's decades of rhythmic innovation behind the Melvins kit and Dupree's caustic work with Void on the early D.C. hardcore scene bringing genuinely distinct lineages into the room.
As the genre-defying masters of stoner metal, the latest iteration of Sleep finds founding member and lead songwriter Al Cisneros newly partnered with the generational talent of Dale Crover (Melvins, Redd Kross) on drums and the iconoclastic Bubba Dupree (Void) on guitar. While simpler minds may seek out the redundancy of a monotonous iterative exercise, the road map of new album Hempispheres is an exploratory vision, one replacing overload with nuance and subtlety yet maintaining the interplay that made the band so special from the outset. So while the discourse on messageboards and comment sections bemoan the amicable absence of long-time guitarist Matt Pike, real heads, visionaries and open-minded truth-seekers alike will be rewarded with not the Sleep album they anticipated or expected, rather with Hempispheres being the album that is needed.
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UPC: 810074425773
Label: Third Man Records
Release Date: 10.30.26
Format: CD