Sleeping Pills by Pillowdiver
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.
Tracklist
| 1. | Twenty-Nine | 5:01 |
| 2. | Two | 5:33 |
| 3. | Fifteen | 5:30 |
| 4. | Nineteen | 4:51 |
| 5. | Eleven | 4:51 |
| 6. | Seventeen | 6:42 |
| 7. | Seven | 6:03 |
| 8. | One | 3:45 |
| 9. | Twenty-Seven | 5:29 |
