On this day of Armageddon weather, a song which sounds distinctly elemental, something that was made to be played amid a howling gale.
The Big Sleep are a Brooklyn duo in thrall to the interesting edges of rock music but capable of pulling those strands into three enthralling minutes. Touching on a palette of post-rock and shoegaze with singer Sonya Balchandani's swooping vocals,
Ace is ultimately a power-chord blizzard, throwing itself ever further into the tumult but showing enough restraint to sound genuinely effortless. A tricky thing to pull off in a Force Nine gale.
From: Nature Experiments (2012)
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