A memory half-remembered, here right now.
Forgotten thoughts come around once in a lifetime.
I am alive, so are you.
Engage in chaotic divergence and sleepy anxiety with Impostor Syndrome's new genre-bending album Sleep & Violence.
Sleep & Violence, the Auckland based recording outfit's sophomore album, explores the realms that exist between the planes of anxiety and neuro-divergence. Clocking in at 23 minutes, this upcoming mini album is free from convention, demanding the listeners' attention, not their time. Shannon Coulomb (producer/instrumentalist), Ryan Culleton (vocals) and Scott Nicolson (drums) became friends during their high school years with the idea to create music together lingering for years. Sleep & Violence is their second self-produced album, having dived into their current fascination of the analogue realm of recording.
"It turns out the brain has a storage limit for songs kept only in one's memory. Impostor Syndrome is essentially the result of documenting our love of learning music production. That attempt to bring all of our thoughts to life, through a focused, experimental approach."
A big step up in self production from their debut album ‘Oriens’, Sleep & Violence retains some roughness around its edges while keeping an eye firmly on the future. From the orchestral depth of opener Lore and the nod to 90's electronica in Silhouette, to the cathartic and heavy Know Me Well to the Psychedelic roots of Freedom is a Thought, self production became as much of a necessity and a means to an end:
“Limitations are important for creativity, but your own set of limitations should present themselves to you as opposed to confining to an external construct”