SLEEPING PULSE unveil the beautiful lyric video ‘The Butterfly Collector’ as the next advance single taken from their forthcoming new album: Dreams & Limitations. This melancholic yet dynamic and strangely also upbeat track is shaped by a fluttering flute melody.
SLEEPING PULSE comment: “The title, ‘The Butterfly Collector’, is a metaphor for desperately holding onto memories”, frontman Mick Moss explains. “Our main character sees various moments in his past as being perfect and he works hard to create a place in his mind where they are archived and stored. Yet for all his efforts, the sadness that comes with knowing that he can never truly relive those moments again becomes overwhelming.”
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When you allow Northern English melancholia from valleys of green and gray to get married to the eternal longing of Portuguese Fado from where the raging Atlantic meets the heat of summer at the end of the world, SLEEPING PULSE is what you get.
Portugal has a reputation for people casually talking about death when going about everyday life like other folks talk about the weather. England is regarded as a stoic place, which makes it hardly surprising that SLEEPING PULSE explore the profound struggle of staying sane whilst navigating the heartbreaking truth that all existence is not just brief – but also one fraught with personal loss and an inability to hold on to the people that you love.
So far so good, but what sets the duo of vocalist Mick Moss, who is best known for his work with ANTIMATTER, and Portuguese guitarist Luís Fazendeiro apart, is their artistic achievement to make this existential pain audible with every note on their sophomore album Dreams & Limitations. Using a form of doomy progressive or even post-rock as their sonic foundation, SLEEPING PULSE compose music that is in the best way deeply emotional while remaining exciting. The duo’s songs do not wallow in sorrow; they rather embrace the inevitable and live through it for as long as it lasts.
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Aural Aggravation 