Album Review: Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token

tiktok band releases new low for depressive horny muzak in the guise of pretentious concept metal. piss on it repeatedly. Pick up the phone: Sleep Token are a godawful band, get off this page and and run like an ostrich til there's an entire horizon between your rump and their turgid mismatch of styles that might have belonged together if a more talented and/or tasteful group of musicians had turned their hand to them, are you there are you still there? yes get out, here are the reasons. First reason, their vanilla-djent / vanilla-pop / vanilla-alt-RnB trifecta is heavily contingent on anonymous-gimmick vocalist Vessel's competence in the latter.

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The hype around Sleep Token has reached inferno level – but much of ‘Take Me Back To Eden’, the group's third album but their first as a group of multi-million-listener-magnitude, dampens the blaze rather than stokes it. Sleep Token, though some may see them as overnight sensations, have been building their cult following since their formation in 2016, using the classic moves of mystery (the band perform in masks and conceal their identities completely) and massive tunes (their previous records ‘Sundowning’ and ‘This Place Will Become Your Tomb’ were cuts of scorching metal-adjacent rock playing into the best-loved bits of both). It's worked, and seen Sleep Token deliver stunning headline sets at Download Pilot, Takedown, Bloodstock… They've been well inaugurated into the annals of alternative history already, but when ‘Chokehold’ and ‘The Summoning’ struck at the beginning of 2023, Sleep Token were catapulted onto another level.

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