I Always Find It Funny How Different People Can Be On Stage Compared With Real Life, I Obviously Don't

Without giving spoilers for the album: Sleep Token can do whatever the fuck they want musically and it's a privilege to be listening to them as they release the music they want to make. I genuinely believe that in a few years we'll look back on them as one of the pioneers of the death of genre

thinking about aaron minyard taking a pharmacology class in med school & getting curious & looking into the experimental medication andrew was put on & finding articles about what it did to the people who took it and how it was deemed unhelpful & searching for any first-hand accounts of what it felt like because he knew he would never get them from andrew (and he would never pry into that, would never dig that up) & talking to katelyn about it because he needs someone to know, needs someone to remind him that it wasn’t his fault and he couldn’t have stopped it, and it can’t be nicky, who would only feel even guiltier than aaron & he gets tickets to andrew’s next game just so he has an excuse to visit him and see him face to face and remind himself that there are no drug-induced smiles anymore

This is the most surface level thought about Even In Arcadia but I really appreciate that the songs are long.

Artists are writing shorter and shorter songs to compete in the attention economy and are even writing based around a short snippet they hope will go viral on TikTok.

The shortest song on Even In Arcadia is Past Self at 3:35. A full 5 songs are over 6 minutes long.

Sleep Token, who *had* that taste of viral TikTok fame themselves, looked at current trends in music and went "hmm. No thank you."

huge fan of when his smile looks like he's about to unleash absolute chaos:

if aftg happened in the 2020s i just know jeremy would make jean make that tiktok to GUY.exe by superfruit where it goes “six feet tall and super strong”

Sometimes, when listening to Sleep Token, I realize "I'm listening to a real human singing.." and I have to stop for a second because he sounds so divine, in a way.

I can only ever imagine II’s voice with the distortion from the drumeo interview now. That’s just… what he sounds like to me. That’s how he sounds every day.

I cackled when I read this

Neil Josten has the same constant stress level as that fuck ass squirrel from Ice Age

Ok who painted the broken bone on dews boot