TRACKS: 01 Twenty-Nine
02 Two
03 Fifteen
04 Nineteen
05 Eleven
06 Seventeen
07 Seven
08 One
09 Twenty-Seven
Sleeping
Pills is the debut release from Germany’s Pillowdiver,
whose concepts of simplification and minimalism led him to self-imposed
limitations for the creation of this work. Utilizing primarily
a Fender Jazzmaster, with a small amount of synthesizer and field
recording, Pillowdiver took advantage of very lo-fi and modest
mediums such as 4-track cassette and various guitar stomp boxes.
Appropriate to its title, Sleeping Pills is a dark and
dreamy album of often-melancholic, post-rock influenced ambience.
Most tracks rely on a bed of one or two simple loops over which
guitar melodies, incidental sounds and harmonies are overlaid,
enveloping the listener in a sleepy din of tape distortions and
warm noise.
Sometimes about dreaming, sometimes about escaping, Pillowdiver’s
focused approach is a unique voice among artists who tread the
fine line between experimentalism and indie rock.
René
Margraff (b. 1975) lives in Berlin, works for a well-known music
software company and plays guitar. He started Pillowdiver in 2008.
Recorded
and mixed by
René Margraff between February 2008 and January 2009 @
Karl-Marx-Str., Berlin
