The Sleeping Years

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The Sleeping Years is a musical vehicle for Dale Grundle, an Irish-born singer/songwriter recently signed to Talitres Records in France. Having released a trio of very strong EPs last year (You And Me Against The World, Setting Fire To Sleepy Towns, and Clocks And Clones), Grundle is set to release a full-length entitled We're Becoming Islands One By One under The Sleeping Years moniker March 17th. Grundle's wondrously frail and inflection-laden voice is set to delicate arrangements anchored by Nick Drake-like acoustic finger-picking. His bandmates Michelle So and Tom Page add flourishes of cello, piano, and occasional percussion. Lyrically, Grundle's songs are mysteriously vague and poetic. "Setting Fire To Sleepy Towns" reads: "I fear the hearts of men are failing on these shores/ We've been chasing tails and trapping shadows/ The whisper lanes and hoods, the conjuring of smoke/ We're setting fire to sleepy towns now." For those of you that enjoy intimate acoustic fare, Grundle's got a real knack for penning melodic and intelligent folk songs. His EP's are currently available on iTunes. -- Capt. Obvious

Listen:
MP3: The Sleeping Years - Setting Fire To Sleep Towns
MP3: The Sleeping Years - Clocks And Clones

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