Sleeping In
We present you Burlington, Vermont’s dream machine designers Sleeping In announced their debut album Let You In available October 20. The combination of Adam Wolinsky, Mason Dixon, Jordan Stocker & JT Day work to extract the heavier sides of the ethereal plane by way of amplified illustrations. From what began as a record shop bond turned band, the group’s own focuses & developments have found them harnessing the power of environments, atmospheres & sonic studies in controlled & pointed guitar wielding that makes for some of the most gravity defying effects & extreme potency that dream-themed pop motifs do not always typically deliver on.
Presenting the world premiere of Sleeping In’s “pine”, cabin wood-paneled environments & essences are the jump-off point for one wild & raging guitar-jamboree. But this isn’t no ordinary mountain hike picnic, as the quartet kicks up a dust storm of big pluming razor guitar gusts of steam & style where wild firework displays of expressive & intimate thought lines are sent up like sputtering bottle rockets of inner reckoning. Observation thought fields follow the traces of interior decorative memories from former trysts, calculate what it all mean or didn’t mean the grand scheme of it all. Sleeping In emulates the mastery of guitar based magic where the electrified string instrument works to further convey the highs & lows of emotions sung through gritty distortion that harbors a certain strange & raw magic. The brilliance of “pine” is that the guitar arrangements only sound louder upon repeated listens. Join us after the debut of “pine” for a candid interview with the band.
So tell first tell us about the road & evolution that brought you all to & through the processes of recording Let You In.
Once we were ready to play shows we played a lot. I feel like we kind of got overwhelmed with everything we wanted to do and booked ourselves for too much in too little time. We were taking two cars down to Boston and NYC, it was just hard to manage. Since the day after the first EP came out we’ve been working on this release. We didn’t really know what it was going to be at the time, we were just in the early stages, crafting it. We’ve changed/redid a lot on this record throughout our time making it. Whenever we had a new idea we didn’t hold back on making sure it got on the record. I guess in a way that’s why it feels like a growing process, revisiting & revising our work.
Tell us too about the Burlington by Allston connection in the album’s creation.
Dylan Sylvester is a good friend of ours from Vermont who now lives and works in Boston. He reached out to us after we put out the EP and played around a few times. Just that he was into what we were doing, and would love a chance to work with us. we went down for a weekend to record a few songs in his basement. We initially thought we wanted to put out a sweet little EP but by the time we finished recording that we had more songs that we wanted to record and not enough time in the weekend. We also featured my friend Jessica Hesse on the record, I knew her from when I was living in New Hampshire and was real into what she has been doing musically. I asked if she wanted to sing on a few songs and she was down, and she lived within walking distance of where we were recording. It all just fell together nicely.
How do you all refine & rein in the wanton power of brash & bold guitars that are tempered like bottling lightening for alchemist purposes?
I don’t really think we refine anything. To me it’s all sounds coming from raw physical emotion. I used to drop my guitar a lot live, and like smash it into things with my delay all the way up. It’d make some crazy noises. I don’t really do that anymore but sometimes in a sweaty basement or something I might cut a lil loose if ya know what i mean. We used to play with 3 guitars but stopped doing that kind of early on. It’s a much different dynamic but toning the volume down has definitely brought out the melodies.
Give us the arboreal & piny scented inception for “pine”.
Adam Wolinsky: “Pine” came from the Mayan Calendar Doomsday Prophecy party I attended. I hung out with a girl at a party who I thought was cool. I ended up going home with her and regretting my decision. I pretended to fall asleep so we could stop hooking up. VT houses are built on pine and this is me staring at the ceiling or floor thinking about my shortsighted decisions.
What do you all find currently exciting & inspiring about Burlington right now?
Burlington has great things going on for it musically. A lot of awesome bands, and new bands popping up every year. There are a bunch of great groups putting on shows and promoting local music and helping out touring bands.
Local artists & events you all want to champion?
Oh man, so many. Apartment 3, Wolfhand, Belly Up, Clever Girls, Bleach Day, Bison, The Onlys… Tons of great stuff. Waking Windows is a local festival the first weekend of May in Winooski (town over from Burlington) Its an awesome festival with a lot of bands from VT & beyond, definitely worth checking out!
With our world torn between natural disasters & socio political villainy—how can people get better involved in their worlds/communities?
Vote and participate in local governments. Invest in and empower your community in positive ways.
Fall/winter plans?
We’re going to spend a lot of time writing and recording. We’d like to put out music more consistently.
2018 meditations?
We’re hoping to tour big in 2018!
Parting thoughts?
Love you & thank you.
Sleeping In’s debut album Let You In will be available October 20 via Bandcamp.
