PLINK: The Sleeping Lines

Plink

The Sleeping Lines

© 2003 Sea Of Droids Music (678277057524)

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Beautiful, slow, female-fronted electronic pop that will make you sleepy.

tracks

1 Undo
2 Remade
3 Mary Antonita
4 Gone
5 Thanks for Coming
6 Turning Around
7 Frame
8 With Old Photographs
9 Blue
10 Sunday, Rain Likely

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notes

Plink is a laboratory experiment in quiet music.

After years of seeking out those certain quiet records that never appear often enough, Scott Evans and Brad Derrick decided to make one themselves. They recruited vocalist Kate Cronin, who was singing with some of DC's most prestigious choral ensembles, and set to work. Evans' and Derrick's studios are 100 miles apart, so they composed and exchanged tracks via the internet. After fifteen months of intense work, the product was The Sleeping Lines. Its quiet electronics offer slow, delicate songs in the vein of Laurie Anderson, Low, Portishead, or Sigur Ros.

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  • Breathtaking ambience!
    author: diefaktorei

    I heard the song "undo" on a compilation and quickly looked up the website then ended up buying the CD. When the CD arrived, it disappeared for a few days as my girlfriend was listening to it and enjoying it. Once I got a hold of it I popped it in the CD player and listened to it with headphones all the way through. It is much longer than I imagined it to be and all the songs are very well put together and sounding great. The vocals are a warmth pouring over dark synths and noise carefully blended. I very much enjoyed the music.

  • Hypnotic and inspiring.
    author: Daniel K.

    This album is a must for artists who work, with music in the background. It will get the creative juices flowing and definitely get you to another place. Listened to the sample track "Mary Antonita" and had to have the CD. It's all good.

  • An intriguing mix of darkwave and electronica
    author: Ethereal_lad

    This Washington, DC based band specializes in the moody electronic soundscapes favored by Alpha or Massive Attack. The chanteuese has a classically-trained voice that soars over mellow, midtempo chillout music that occassionally breaks out with harder beats and harsher sounds. Some tracks--particularly the spoken-word tracks--aren't up to the usually standard of the sung pieces. (They're going for a Laurie Anderson vibe, not so successfully). Still, this is a strong debut. For fans of Lamb and Halou.

  • an excellent ethereal darkwave cd
    author: joe fichter

    "the sleepy lines" by plink is an excellent cd. a darkwave evenpaced album that doesnt try to be commercial. nice soft vocals with mood breaking lyrics. good sounds and landscapes from the band all the way through.this cd is for fans of halou,god's bow,in the nursery and edera. its definitely worth having

  • Mellow, mellow, mellow. And a fantastic vocalist.
    author: Ringwood

    This CD is mellow, mellow, mellow. The kind of music that's good for suicide, or for lonely nights with bottles of cheap alcohol. "Turning Around," my favorite track, is also mellow, mellow, mellow... until about three-quarters of the way in. And, all right, I'm a sucker for a solid female vocalist. And that, Plink has in spades.

  • Haunting vocals over stylish electronica.
    author: David Bickerstaff

    Got the album after Warren Ellis (diepunyhumans.com) recommended the band. Loved the sample tracks and ordered it Vocals are beautiful, haunting and choral in a way that's hard to define. Reminiscent of Lisa Gerard, Laurie Anderson and Portishead, but not in an imitative way. Not to diminish the quality of the musicians backing the vocals. Highly recommended

  • Thanks for the recommendation, Fred!
    author: Darla Stokes

    I've really enjoyed the CD, though it's the first I've listened to of this kind of music, so I'm not sure how well I'll do a review. It's turning out to be a perfect bathtub CD... I fill up the tub, light candles, pour a glass of wine, and turn the CD on, then lean back and close my eyes and just listen. It's good music to get lost in. Thanks for making an indulgence even better.

  • BEAUTIFUL
    author: PANGEA SKATEBOARDS

    THE CD IS REALLY CHILL. I LOVE THE VOCALS AND WILL LOOK OUT FOR MORE FROM THE ARTIST.

  • I've had it on constant repeat for the last three days.
    author: Fred Hicks

    I listened to the MP3's available on their website and got curious. When the CD arrived I was beyond pleased to find that, in fact, the CD more than delivered on the promise of those tracks -- enough so that I wish they'd put out mp3s of some of the other ones. "Undo" is definitely a good peek, but the album really starts to get its sophistication on starting at track four and ramping up from there. If anything, the album 'reads' like a progression through the maturing of the band's sound, with each song gaining some refinement and complexity over the last. I'm particularly fond of the second half of the album, with "Turning Around" and "With Old Photographs" being the top of the set, where they really *click* in getting Kate's pure and powerful vocals married perfectly to the electronic soundscape. Compared to the more commercial albums I've picked up over the past year, the quality and pricepoint on this one is a tough one to beat.

  • ethereal vocals over interesting arrangements
    author: Michael Bedward

    This is a really nice album - and the fact that it's a debut makes it doubly impressive. Shades of This Mortal Coil in places - ethereal vocals over interesting arrangements. I think 'quiet music' belies the range of moods on the album which run from soothing to quite dark.

  • Great for a debut album
    author: Carsten Bormann

    A great piece of fresh vocal-instrumental music. "undo" has long been a favorite of mine, as has been the halou remix of "with old photographs" (which unfortunately is not on this CD). If Enya is too stream-lined for your ears and you still require quiet but not boring, even powerful music, this CD is for you. I *almost* love this album. If only the producers would simply trust their great music some more -- why spoil it with superfluous and disturbing effects? Such as the echo early in "gone" (tell you tell you tell you say say say say say...) or the spatial ping-pong in the middle of "remade" (Hello? Wake up! Nowadays most people listen to music on headphones!)? Maybe they will become more confident in future recordings -- I'll certainly watch this lineup!

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