Sleemo - Heavenly Home (I’m In Your Mind)
Disrupting the East of England with their alternative/punk vibes, Sleemo are Billy (vocals/guitar), Jack (bass) and Jacob (drums).
Formed in mid 2019, the Norwich based three piece released their debut single Dolly shortly afterwards and followed up with two EP’s before their first birthday, garnering support from BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio along the way.
Drawing influences from hardcore, math rock and psychedelia, the band produce an intense live show and have already shared the stage with the likes of King Nun, Muskets, Dingus Khan and Gaffa Tape Sandy as well as performing at the inaugural Wild Paths Festival.
Following on from their Mutation Of EP, released in April 2020, their new single Heavenly Home (I'm In Your Mind) was released on Friday 13 November.
The song was written during the COVID-19 lockdown by exchanging phone recordings via email, leading to a more introspective approach for the band and more experimentation with structure and dynamics. The effects of the lockdown are also reflected in the lyrics, as Billy explains:
The lyrics allude to escapism and how society tries to use technology, games, social media and the like to shut off from the world, engaging in fantasy and ignoring the imminent danger that surrounds us.
Heavenly Home (I'm In Your Mind) opens with a calming guitar and a melancholic vocal that creates a very eerie feeling, picture a horror movie where you know something’s about to happen, as it gives you a sense of creeping doubt.
It then gives us a tease of what’s about to come as the drums come crashing in raising the tempo of the track but it doesn’t fully explode until we reach the latter half when Sleemo bring us the full throttle of the track and it turns into a head bangers paradise with it’s pounding drums and raucous guitar riffs.
The lyrics are obscure but interesting, I like the openings lines of “come now you know your right, the thought of it covered in termites, it’s easy to go slow, pick up the pace let it flow”.
Heavenly Home (I'm In Your Mind) is an eerie piece of dark alt-rock, but delivered in an attention grabbing way, those teases and then pauses of mayhem keep you engaged before the finale literally has you jumping out your seat to shake your head off.
Give Heavenly Home (I'm In Your Mind) a stream now:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7nZLRXCCRgcjN0StX3V4hI?si=0oOV4J-YQp-cMXore3-dLw
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