MODUS: Only The Sleeping Will Know

Modus

Only The Sleeping Will Know

© 2006 Modus (837101239820)

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It is a lullaby for the misrepresented and the ignored. It is both strange and familiar. It is the collision of ideas and images and sound. It is four people left to their own devices. It says all that it needs to say...if you listen...

tracks

1 Alpha
2 Behaving in the Moment
3 A Certain Unspeakable Truth
4 Close to the Bone
5 The Last Thing You Ever Said
6 Lemmings
7 I Think That’s Quite Enough
8 Er’l King
9 Endoverend
10 Lungless
11 A Swan Dive in the Shallow End
12 I Divide
13 The Doctor Will See You Now
14 Odessa
15 Floating Face Down
16 Out of a Waking Dream
17 Nothing to See Here
18 Jigsaw
19 Handle Like Eggs
20 Bi-polar
21 Johnny, Don’t You Think She’s Pretty?
22 In the Grey Matter
23 Omega

notes

Some albums are based around one song. The one you can’t wait to hear. The one you wade through all of the promises and all of the filler to get to. The one that sticks in your head and clings to your brain like the cheap cologne sold in drug stores - the only one that is worth the price of admission.

This is not one of those albums.

Some albums are chock full of temporarily numbing and instantly forgettable singles. Blissful, glossy, sugar-soaked pure power-pop golden hits fired in rapid succession. Soon the armies of style junkies and media sheep will scarf up the generic melodies, vapid intentions, and tired cliches.

This is not one of those albums.

Some are unbelievably mediocre. They exist as inoffensive, castrated and terminally average vacuums that have about as much passion as a travel brochure. The music wilts like bad wallpaper, and the lyrics read like homework. You want the hour you just spent listening to it back - but it was only 35 minutes.

This is not one of those albums.

So what, then, is this album?

“Only The Sleeping Will Know”, our first full-length release, is the most comprehensive musical statement that we could make. It is everything it could have possibly become. Longer, louder, heavier, quieter, bolder, deeper, lighter, brighter, smarter, and darker. It is a clear step forward from our debut EP, yet not entirely different in its intent. Just an alternate means to the same end. It requires no prior knowledge, and requests no prejudice. It begs you to play it from start to finish - a lost commitment reminiscent of what it used to mean to listen to an album. It needs neither introduction nor explanation. It simply demands your full attention.

Turn off the cell phone. Black out the television. Plug in the stereo.

Time for sleep.

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  • Killer. Start to Finish.
    author: B

    Need I say more man. Listen to it top to bottom and you won't be dissapointed. I was visiting upstate a little while back and caught Modus at their album debut party bought both albums (this and the Self tiled EP) on the spot. They have been at or near the top of my playlist ever since.

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