Sleep is a mysterious thing. It is something that we experience every day yet we don't truly know that much about it. Sure we know what our body and mind does, or is supposed to do, but what really goes on in our minds while we sleep and dream? I imagine each of our "consciousnesses" enter a bleak realm of our own minds and traverse a path of our thoughts and experiences. If that place does exist, then without a doubt it would be soundtracked by Stars of the Lid. Stars of the Lid create drone based ambient music with a lush palate of guitars, strings, horns, and piano. The music is almost entirely without and beats and it never really rises beyond a hush. The music shrinks and swells as a moving mass of sound, rising only to fall again back into it's state of ambient drone. Stars of the Lid's album The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid is one of the best ambient minimalist albums, since Brian Eno invented the genre, and the best in years. It was the best, that is, until Stars of the Lid's latest album Stars of the Lid and the Refinement of the Decline. Both albums are excellent and are great thinking and relaxing music. Purchase on vinyl if possible.
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