Sleeping in Traffic: Part One

by Beardfish

Sleeping in Traffic: Part One cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 May 2007
  • Label: InsideOut
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 1:05:57
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Robert Hansen, David Zackrisson, Rikard Sj枚blom, Magnus 脰stgren

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the first half of a massive conceptual double-album, the Swedish progressive rockers established a remarkably playful, retro-leaning sound. The narrative follows a single protagonist through a surreal day in their life, relying on vintage Hammond organs, quirky vocal melodies, and complex, 1970s-inspired symphonic rock arrangements.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, melodic, rhythmic, progressive, intricate

Tracklist

  1. ...On The Verge Of Sanity (0:47)
  2. Sunrise (7:54)
  3. Afternoon Conversation (3:42)
  4. And Never Know (5:59)
  5. Roulette (12:07)
  6. Dark Poet (3:24)
  7. Harmony (7:20)
  8. The Ungodly Slob (6:42)
  9. Year Of The Knife (7:28)
  10. Without You (2:39)
  11. Same Old Song (Sunset) (7:51)

Credits

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