City Newspaper Archives - 4/2008
ROCK: The Big Sleep (4/2)
Published by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni on Apr 02, 2008
On "Sleep Forever," the latest album by NYC-based trio the Big Sleep, you can immediately tell the band is really into guitar tones. Big vibrato chords shimmy their way through your head in a way that would make David Lynch pee himself with excitement. And, where other bands would truncate such an introduction, guitarist Danny Barria is allowed to strum away by himself for almost a minute and a half. It only gets more tone-o-philic from there. Which is not to say the band goes nuts with fancy studio layering. In fact, the Big Sleep strikes a tightrope act's balance between grainy, full-sounding instruments (the high-hat sounds particularly slurr-iffic) and indie production codes - almost like an indie band's take on shoegaze.
The Big Sleep
Club @ Water Street, 204 N Water St
Wednesday, April 2
8 p.m. | $17-$18 | 325-5600
