"Leagues Beneath" | ||||
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Single by Sleep | ||||
Released | May 23, 2018 | |||
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Length | 16:44 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Al Cisneros | |||
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"Leagues Beneath" is a single by the American stoner doom band Sleep. The song was released for free digitally on May 23, 2018 through Adult Swim's 2017 singles series, [2] marking Sleep's second entry following 2014's " The Clarity". [3] "Leagues Beneath" was released a month after the band's 2018 return album, The Sciences, which marked Sleep's first full-length studio release in twenty years. [4] Later in 2018, "Leagues Beneath" was released on etched vinyl through Third Man Records. [5] [6]
Musically, "Leagues Beneath" is a long, slow epic that begins with B-tuned guitar and gradually builds by introducing new elements. [7] Al Cisneros' vocals are not heard until nearly six minutes into the track. After the song's protracted crescendo, it concludes with a somber passage where layers strip away and give way to clean, psychedelic string sounds. [7] Phil Witmer of Vice praised "Leagues Beneath", writing that it is "possibly bigger than anything on The Sciences", [7] and Brock Thiessen of Exclaim! called it "sprawling" and "a total scorcher". [8] Revolver wrote that the song is "droning, transcendental, [and] punctuated with next-level riffing." [9] At nearly seventeen minutes, "Leagues Beneath" is the group's longest track since 1999's " Dopesmoker" and, by some metrics, constitutes an EP. [10]
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1. | "Leagues Beneath" | 16:44 |
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