Atlas:Sleeping At Last

Band: Sleeping At Last

Album/EP: Atlas:Darkness 

Songs:   

1. Overture

2. Woodwork

3. I'll Keep You Safe

4. Bad Blood

5. Uneven Odds

Bember Grade: A Must Own, 5/5 

 The latest project from Ryan O'Neal and his Illinois based band Sleeping At Last is brilliant. Very few recording artists today have the creativity, foresight, vision, and artistic brushstrokes that Mr. O'Neal

 has.

I have been a fan since the release of Ghosts in 2003. Ever since, Sleeping At Last has been producing and creating music on a level that gets better progressively. Music that causes you to laugh, cry, ponder, muse, and run towards glorious things. Sleeping At Last gets more ambitious with each new project. If you are not familiar with Yearbook, you should be, an EP released each month, with the name of that month as the title. I was impressed then, and with this new project I am bound to be even more impressed. While Sleeping At Last are very ambitious in their art, they do not concede to ever create bad art. In fact, Ryan is creating some of the most thought provoking and intricate lyrics of any artist of our time. This new project, which we have no time table for its end or how many EP's will be released has just begun. 

It begins with Darkness, as I believe the World began. The Darkness EP is phenomenal. Mr. O'Neal is a wonderful wordsmith and his music just moves the lyrics along like a stream in our ears. Where we are going, I cannot yet see. What I am sure of is that Ryan has trekked far enough into the future that this stream will end somewhere in an ocean of beauty and light, and the listener will be completely satisfied in what he finds and hears throughout this journey.

Do yourself a favor and go buy the EP. It is well worth your time and your ears and heart will thank you for it.