Infectious enough to get you moving and heavy enough to feel like great value for money, “The Essentials” feels like noughties indie music just got a timely makeover. If that decade is seen as the era when indie music came of age, Sleeping Together proves that not only is it time for that scene to step up again, but that they are the band for the job.
“The Essentials” not only encapsulates a messy night out—the sense of liberty, the impulsive decisions, the what-ifs and the why not, and the impulsive, drink-fuelled moves—but is the soundtrack to the next one too, sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy put to music.
And what great music is it, the sound of low-slung guitars being slashed and sliced, of shimmering riffs and pummelling beats, punctuating bass lines and anthemic vocals…everything you need to forge an epic modern indie song.
And it is totally modern, now, forward-thinking. As much as it looks back to such icons as Bloc Party or The Strokes it is the 21st-century vibe that runs through everything that makes the sound so of the moment. If a rawer sound marked the indie sound of the nineties and noughties, “The Essentials” manages to capture that same energy but deliver a sound and style that is sophisticated and covered in a modern sonic sheen.
Everything you liked about what has gone before, but now with everything it takes to propel the indie sound into the future. Perfect.
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