Music - Polite Sleeper (not to be confused with pillow-biter) is a folk mess and Lake Effect is nine delicate moments put to tape.
Lake Effect is a bittersweet sun that shines in the indie music universe. A long-expected moment of rebirth after a long time of emptiness. the nine tracks on this album are equal parts unique and obtuse, poetically indifferent and as plain as the Midwestern roots of the members themselves.
Copying and pasting from myspace.com/politesleeper we can say about the band that jason used to carry canadian cigarettes and sing about girls. michael used to travel time. tim used to have a shitload a attitude. now they just live in the past.
Tracklisting
1. These Are Not Fall Colors
2. Driving Ohio
3. From Waiting List to Walk In
4. Crushed
5. Lake Effect
6. Eleven Months
7. Three Easy Steps
8. My Head Still Hurts
9. So Serious
Bio
The story of Polite Sleeper starts in San Francisco in 2002 when Jason and Tim formed The Yellow Press, a Ye! Ye! hardcore/punk quartet with bassist Steven Chamberlain. With releases on X-Mist and Day After, they toured for over two years, opening for the likes of Against Me!, Xiu Xiu, The Thermals and Erase Errata before amicably disbanding in 2005.
With Steven moving to Germany, Jason and Tim left California for Brooklyn and together that winter for the first time they self-recorded a handful of sparse, acoustic songs, chronicling ex-friends, lovers, addiction, and most notably not having a band anymore.During that period the duo met Michael through a mutual friend, who added
piano to a few unfinished ideas and the homemade session was quietly released as a five-song EP on Sabotage in June 2007.
Yet despite few expectations the new trio found a surprising balance (and noted buzz) between their punk pasts and the intimacy of the new aesthetic that now included a homemade trap kit and stage piano.
Multiple US and European tours followed, supporting the likes of Parenthetical Girls, Wavves, White Rabbits, Karl Blau and Old Time Relijun to name a few.
What started as simple therapy in various living rooms around Brooklyn finally came full circle when Polite Sleeper signed with Expect Candy to release its first proper studio album -- and follow up to the critically acclaimed Seens CD/LP -- in late 2009.
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