WAR AGAINST SLEEP: 'PLEASURE COMPLEX'

'Pleasure Complex' is the much anticipated fourth War Against Sleep LP.   Released 19th July 2008 on our Silent Age imprint, via high quality mp3 download from Bleep.com.

Recorded over two years in a stinking, mould infested dungeon with zero budget, this album is just as symphonic and ambitious as ever, but with a vast array of  faulty vintage keyboards and synthesizers replacing the borrowed orchestra and harmonising choirs of the previous three albums. The sound is fizzing, electronic and intense, and disconcertingly catchy.

Throughout the album the listener is the subject, addressed as a hedonist on the brink of a massive psychological breakthrough.  We are invited to leave behind a carnival of desire and delight in order to travel alone through a black hole into nothingness. Metaphysical bedroom pop: only the mindscape of songwriter and mystic Duncan Fleming is capable of such grand, absurd gestures.

Nick Talbot (Gravenhurst/Silent Age Records) says: "I have spent many years tirelessly preaching the virtues of War Against Sleep, the vehicle for the work of Duncan Fleming, the most talented, genuinely eccentric and naturally gifted songwriter in England. 'Pleasure Complex' delivers on every front; it is hilarious and disturbing, it celebrates the domestic and invokes the apocalyptic. A gumshoe homicide detective driven by the visions of Gurdieff; the spirits of Alesteir Crowley and William Blake emanating from the voices of 1970's Radio Luxembourg disc jockeys; this is infectious pop music at its most authentically strange and downright brilliant. So enamoured I was of the beautiful 'Longest River', I released a Gravenhurst cover of it before the original version appears here. It is with great pride that we are able to release 'Pleasure Complex' on our Silent Age Records imprint via high quality mp3 download from Bleep.com from Saturday 19th July.

"Sexy psychedelia" NME
"Gloriously ridiculous stuff" The Wire
"Classic songwriting" Record Collector
"He performs complete wonders" The Big Issue
"War Against Sleep are the audio version of the programmes that used to scare me witless as a child" Rough Trade

http://waragainstsleep.co.uk

Gravenhurst 'Internal Travels' mp3 Release

The Gravenhurst debut 'Internal Travels' will be repressed on synthetic corporeal substances very soon, encased in card, manufactured from wood pulp. Mp3 downloads of the album are now available from www.bleep.com

Other stuff

here is the list of all the great artists who have passed through here and some info on their latest activities.

Some of have also been wasting time doing the adult webcomic Ultraskull.

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Be well, enjoy life, perhaps we will see you soon.