The band’s lyrics also go a long way in helping to construct this ethereal world, as they collide images of divinity with flashes of what seems to be their own lives.

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Oil and water This album essentially has two components, the soft sections and heavy sections, nothing about them go together and is the furthest thing from cohesive. Take instance “ Thread the Needle”, which can be viewed as both an overtly erotic track or a metaphysical unification of Sleep and Vessel. Blue light over murder for me” references the album’s water theme, and perhaps also the blue light that is commonly used in public washrooms to deter drug injections, as the wavelength prevents veins from showing up on arms. At the end of 2019, Distorted Sound ranked Sundowning as the second best album of the year (behind only Samsara by Venom Prison), with Dan McHugh writing that " Sundowning has proved that [Sleep Token] are not just a flash in the pan with its spellbinding experimentation . By “ Sugar”, Vessel is addicted to Sleep and cannot leave, despite the line “ addicted to the pain” showing he knows it’s not necessarily good for him.The quality certainly takes a serious nosedive after the first couple of tracks until you end up listening to just some guy singing over a piano for the last half of the album.

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Throughout Sleep Token’s music, Vessel puts Sleep on a pedestal, much as one can blindly ignore the flaws of a significant other in favour of the joyful moments, in feeling loved as the narrator so clearly never has. In my opinion, Sleep visits Vessel after his suicide attempt because ‘she’ doesn’t reciprocate his feelings. These are songs that share less with the metal of the similarly-robed Sunn O))), and more with, say, Deaf Havana’s slower, more pensive and thoughtful moments.The winning formula that is non-denominational Christianity has shown its merit as a successful business model! e. the hopes of a new relationship’ honeymoon love or the [often temporary] upturn in a relationship). Vessel is so desperate for answers that he reaches for anything that seems good, which Sleep has not only recognized in its new Vessel, but made him promises. Sleep Token have an ear for tight, conventional melody, but they manage to twist it just enough to warp the atmosphere into something considerably darker than it has any right being without entering Weird Town! Though maybe that’s even a stretch, given the vast outpouring of merch this one man has managed to procure from seemingly nothing.

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No action in the world can be without energy — human life, health, relationships, professional activities and everything else depend on it. According to this interpretation, this rune helps its wearer to clearly set goals and not deviate from the course to achieve them. The figure of Sleep demonstrates the methodological problem but also fulfilment of examining the group’s writing: you can look as cursory or closely as you want, and the message resonates equally. In this situation, the rune will help to overcome all possible obstacles that interfere with the achievement of the result.And, as they’ve already proven, the band are more than capable of playing up to this role of intrigue. The sigils for the individual Sundowning singles were written with binds made from a combination of Futhark runes, alchemical symbols, and Ar Goetia runes. Merch designs, music videos, pre-recorded addresses at live shows, and cryptic clues uploaded to their social media are all ways in which the masked collective communicate their message. His fragile emotional state makes him a prime target, and “ I am almost under” refers both to unconsciousness and a metaphorical submersion into the ocean that is so prevalent across the record.