Sleepwalking Sailors

Sleepwalking Sailors, the third album by Washington state trio Helms Alee, features bracing post-hardcore and primeval indie rock, soporific drift and phosphorescent post-rock. It's their most aggressive, but accessible and fully realized offering to date.

The kind of brainpower it takes to pull even a bad record out of the ether and onto magnetic tape is astounding, so when an album comes along as carefully crafted as Sleepwalking Sailors, the third outing from Seattle-based sludge rockers Helms Alee, it's a truly impressive feat.

On their third full-length record, Seattle-based riff-mongers Helms Alee have managed to channel the specific density and frightening strangeness of this dream atmosphere with eerie perfection.