Take Me Back to Eden
The third album from the masked, anonymous Brits of Sleep Token is also the third in a conceptual trilogy that began with their 2019 debut, *Sundowning*. Introduced with the stirring and dramatic leadoff single “Chokehold,” *Take Me Back to Eden* is another genre-defying exploration of music’s outer limits, incorporating elements of techno and tech-metal alongside R&B, post-rock, and pop—often in the same song. “Vore” spins out in Meshuggah djent-isms before swelling with the kind of strings that recall a battle scene from *Game of Thrones*. “Ascensionism” is an inventive and often bizarre mix of piano ballad, gospel, and ultra-modern metal. Closer “Euclid” sounds like a Lana Del Rey tune performed by an R&B singer and a chorus of aliens. Along the way, there are love songs (“The Apparition”), suicide ballads (“Are You Really Okay?”), and songs about loss (the title track). As always, mastermind Vessel’s vocals soar over the proceedings, offering lyrical mysteries in service to the nocturnal muse he calls Sleep. It’s as bewildering as it is impressive.
The mysterious group have become one of the scene’s most talked-about bands. Their latest album more than justifies the intrigue
Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden may not be revolutionary in its music or pantomime, with some evident missteps but the secret society is doing a world of good by exposing a gamut of fans to the many genre-bending tricks they possess.
The third album from idiosyncratic U.K. band Sleep Token completes the trilogy that began with their 2016 debut full-length, Sundowning, and presents the cleanest articulation to date of their part-metal, part-R&B, all-chaotic sound.
The final part of a trilogy of albums by masked London collective Sleep Token is an hour-long genre odyssey of epic proportions.
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
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Take Me Back to Eden largely feels like a collection of generic compositions that—despite having some Sleep Token sheen—could've been created by any number of other artists.
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