The guitar interplay is subtle and strident, providing the necessary torque to propell the material into an immediately recumbant rock pantheon of precious few equals. We're talking about dense guitar-driven pop melodies, and blast furnace production. Could See The Moon . By the middle of '97, they're sure to be reaching critical mass with the release of their next record. A handful of rock scribes have already splashed their ink on their behalf in the pages of Option, The Big Takeover, Break, and Pulp.
College radio loves Sleepy .
In fact, Sleepy are big on the number three. Sleepy's I Could See the Moon is only the second release on Seattle-based label Extra Strength , but the brain trust up there has landed a band that could do quite well. The tracks have a loose, thrown-together feel that serves to accent the endearing slackerness of the whole enterprise, and the guitar and vocal melodies have a low, resonant hookiness that'll make you want to listen even as thay make you want to call for the anesthesia and sink into your futon. They say it doesn't rain nearly as much in the Pacific Northwest as people think. Maybe so, but it rains all over Sleepy's CD, every sedated, hynotic moment of the way.