Stony Sleep
Two albums in and it seems that Stony Sleep may very well have lost it.
A Slack Romance is by no means a terrible album - just a confusingly average one, where many of the tracks lose their identity and fail to make an impression; anyone who's ever heard a Sleeper LP will probably be familiar with this feeling.
The one stand out track, With The Clumsiness of A Borrowed Father, manages to momentarily claw Stony Sleep out of their indifferent and cramped little hole up into the realm of a half-decent and memorable song, but it's soon back to more of the same old stuff as soon as it's finished. If only this group could write more songs in this vein then they may stand a chance of more than an apathetic shrug.
Stony Sleep have made this album to their own rules, it seems. Had A Slack Romance been 20 minutes shorter then it may have been a different story, but a whole hour's worth of decidedly average songs will only really appeal to die-hard fans.
Good luck with the next album.
5/10 Karl Cremin
A Slack Romance
Big Cat Records
