//SLEEPING PICTURES - MYSPACE SITE Come and poke sharp sticks at us HERE //New Album - Many Hands Should Throw Stones
Although "Sleeping Pictures" still play their songs they are no longer only acoustic songs. Truly they are closer to "Indie-rock" than to "neofolk". With echoes of previous achievements you can hear in "I Failed You", "God Or Whatever", "Absence" and "Not Alone" and songs like "The Broken City Sleep" together with its amazing chorus of guitars it will no doubt be liked by the fans of "My Bloody Valentine" or "Slowdiwe". The looping of the drums from "Kodak Moment" however sound quite close to "Portishead". There is a lot of these kind of surprises in the album and I am not going to take away from you the pleasure and fun of discovering them all. In "Many Hands Should Throw Stones" there is plenty of experimentation with keyboards, which takes prominence next to the soloist. A cabaret sound of a piano from "Saviour's Knuckles" adds colour and vibrancy ; when we ignore all the arrangements and production details, all we will have left is just great songs of reflection with slightly abstract texts. "Many Hands Should Throw Stones" in short is probably a bit of crazy, eccentric, intelligent rock." //LARK BLAMES - CHIMNEY |