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The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don’t sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hive that birthed the band in the latter half of the last decade, Sleepy Sun is a rambling band- a certifiably vagabond unit that built a reputation among American and European audiences as fine-tuned, ironclad locomotive and candy sweet heavy pop machine. Barnstorming the Great Plains… stealing afternoons from the unsuspecting on the European festival-go-round…hooking the uninitiated opening for the Arctic Monkeys, Black Angels, and Low Anthem, they’ve done yeoman’s work, sparked the party, and made the music sound young again.

Sleepy Sun’s miles, months, and days in the van are a tangible presence in Spine Hits, an LP of whimsy, restlessness, and urgency that leaps nimbly from landscape to landscape with ease, irreverence, and a catch-em-before-they-ain’t changeling nature. For the most part, the sprawling Zeppelin-esque epics that defined much of Embrace and Fever have been traded in for a potent pop-compact framework. But never at the expense of the dodging, juking, and downshifting instincts that set their older long form pieces apart from a thousand other psychedelic drone warriors.

Recorded under the big skies of the California high desert with Queens of Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal alumnus Dave Catching, the jams on Spine Hits are alternatingly precision whittled and moodily muscular.
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  • bomix

    I tried (many times), but I don't like Spine hits. At least, it doesn't compare to Fever, one of the best albums in the last 10 years in my opinion. I miss the girl's voice so much.

    1 minute ago

  • greatarse

    Spine Hits is totally solid. not a bad song on the album.

    Thursday evening

  • delitax

    damn, this band is quite good.

    10 days ago

  • heliotropic2005

    Don't listen, it's good times. I don't like the new album and I enjoyed the whole set. Verrrry solid stuff from these guys.

    16 days ago

  • TheCatsLeotards

    shiiit, I was planning on seeing them tonight, if the female vocals are gone and the other comments here about banality are true I don't even know if I'm interested anymore.

    21 days ago

  • flo-yd

    Great band !! <3

    22 days ago

  • SlySilverman

    Just saw Sleepy Sun in Minneapolis and they TORE it up. Opening two acts were good to especially The Further Adjustments.

    25 days ago

  • irishtim

    For me, Spine Hits doesn't capture the same magic that Fever did. It's still a pretty decent album, but not as great as their previous work.

    28 days ago
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12 Feb 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/sleepysun

..Hey cool cats,Towards the end of last year we worked on a tribute to Graham Nash's "Chicago" which will be released on Songs for Beginners due May 25th 2010 via Grassroots Records and …

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