Artist The Sleeping
-
Matt Wysocki
-
Website
The Sleeping
The Sleeping may well be eclipsed by the seemingly endless surge of pissy young bands that love both hardcore’s melodramatic screaming and emo’s melodramatic whining. Before that happens, let the New York group enjoy due credit for crafting a listenable take on the formula. Though 2010’s The Big Deep—The Sleeping’s third with Victory Records, the label that pretty much owns said formula—is full of requisite angularity and simplistic lyrical screeds, vocalist Doug Robinson appears to be learning some restraint, while keyboardist Chris Evans wields his Hammond in a way that sounds downright sinister.
Updated 12/07/2010
