View From The Outside [LP]

Sleepwalk - View From The Outside [LP]

View From The Outside was tracked over twelve days at Earth Analog

in Tolono, Illinois - the studio of Matt Talbott, guitarist/vocalist of one of

Sleepwalk's major influences, Hum. The band once again worked with

Zac Montez (Whirr, Cloakroom), a producer known for textured

atmospherics who also helmed their Underneath The Shade album.

Montez's love of electronic music enhances View From The Outside as

an unusually three-dimensional aural and emotional experience. "The

[newer] compositions are definitely more thought out," mulled Davis,

the band's principal songwriter and lyricist. "A good balance of

gloominess, hooks, and raw emotions."

The album is introduced by first single and video "Sandbox," an apt

bridge between the old and new Sleepwalk and emblematic of View

From The Outside, it's clean-guitar verses succumbing to hefty, saturated

hooks, with screamed backups from Gargula.