'THERE THE OPEN SPACES'
out on the following dates:
OUT NOW - UK + Europe (TOME)
18th September - North America (Misra)
20th October - Australia + New Zealand (Etch n Sketch)
To pre-order a copy click on the appropriate links below:
UK + Europe , North America , Australia + New Zealand
BUY the new album on ITUNES with a bonus track 'the hundred bird' that isn't on the cd:
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er... if you've been trying to access the sleeping states website recently without much luck i do apologise - it's exceeded its bandwidth twice in the past five days despite me topping it up coz too many people are trying to look at it or something. It should be working ok now, but it means I've had to take down the free mp3s temporarily as I can't afford to pay for the top-up each time! Sorry... I'll try and figure out a cheaper way of hosting the mp3s soon, in the meantime you can still download a couple of songs from the myspace player above. Thanks - markland.
UNDER A CAPRICORN SKY / I WONDER 7" vinyl
out NOW on The Caspian Label. TO BUY COPIES SEE BELOW... To have a listen click here ....
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here and there are songs, with more guitars than i can handle and an old vocal sampler keyboard for when i dont feel like strumming. i like singing it makes me feel better, and when i forget the words humming will do.
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this is something somebody else once said about sleepingstates:
"Enter Sleeping States. Dr Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesiser, may have recently left the planet, but Sleeping State's lead-singer, Markland Starkie, is reinventing the concept. Starkie looks like a mad scientist on stage, hovering over his audio experiments and twisting dials.First he takes a Fisher Price radio to his guitar, and then what looks like a hairdryer, pressing them against the pickups he works up an
electromagnetic drone. Once the drone meets his required standards, he stands up at the microphone and begins to sing. He sounds like Jeff Buckley malfunctioning over a railway station PA.
This is a band designed from its atoms up never to break into the mainstream. Starkie's sprawling lyrics fall like a balm over the white noise and whale song of his guitar, but it all swings quickly from the gorgeous to the totally inaccessible. The band is often drowned out by the babble of the crowd, but Sleeping States don't care one bit. Starkie just presses a short-circuiting Dictaphone to his guitar pick-ups and smiles out into the dark." - Chris Stevens, www.new-noise.net
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FOR SALE:
- I Wonder / Under A Capricorn Sky 7" Single
Copies for sale at Puregroove (click the banner above) and here .
- T-Shirts! oh, all the tshirts have now sold out. sorry... but new shirts with a brand new design will be on sale soon!
- the Rivers / London Fields 7" single is available from various indie record shops around the UK. you can also buy it online from the TOME shop for £2.50
- to buy the Distances Are Great cd-r album click the one of the two Buy Now buttons below:
* £4 incl p+p for postage within the UK
* £5 incl p+p for postage outside the UK. (paypal) (Postage within UK)
(Postage outside UK) ***NOTE - I'm in the states from 9th Sept to the end of Oct, so please be aware that if you buy a copy of Distances Are Great I won't be able to ship it until 1st November***
Tracks:
01. Trumpet Calls
02. Distances Are Games To Me
03. That One Pipe Dream
04. You Can't Lie To Me
05. London Fields
06. Don't Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick cover)
07. You & Your Strange Ways
08. Sing My Love Sing
09. Farthest From The Sea
10. Next Time
11. The Devil Is In The Detail
12. Trio For Strings
13. A Surprise
14. Petite Soeur
a full discography with some free mp3s is available at sleepingstates.co.uk
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bookings:
for shows please contact
jodie at mammoth (uk & europe)
ryan at kork</a (north america)
messages are good.. send me some!