Too Much Sleep

by Bongwater

Too Much Sleep cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Shimmy-Disc
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:13
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Dave Rick, Ann Magnuson, Coby Batty, Kramer

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Ann Magnuson and Kramer return with another wildly surreal, sample-heavy excursion into outsider psychedelic folk. Releasing on Kramer's own Shimmy-Disc label, the album heavily deconstructs classic rock tropes while navigating biting, darkly comedic social commentary.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, lo-fi, experimental, dreamy, sampling, deconstructed

Tracklist

  1. The Living End (2:40)
  2. The Drum (4:25)
  3. Mr. & Mrs. Hell (3:24)
  4. Too Much Sleep (3:39)
  5. Talent Is A Vampire (5:45)
  6. The Bad Review (1:50)
  7. Ill Fated Lovers Go Time Tripping (1:52)
  8. Psychedelic Sewing Room (4:22)
  9. Splash 1 (2:19)
  10. He Loved The Weather (4:07)
  11. Teena Stays The Same (2:33)
  12. One Hand On The Road (3:15)
  13. Then The Babies Return (3:29)
  14. Why Are We Sleeping (3:58)
  15. Khomeini Died Tonight (1:58)
  16. One So Black (5:04)
  17. No Trespassing (4:23)

Credits

  • Bongwater - primary artist
  • Eddie Gorodetsky - advisor [spiritual]
  • Jim Shaw - cover [original cover art]
  • Coby Batty - french horn
  • Dave Rick - lead guitar, written-by
  • Ann Magnuson - lead vocals, lyrics by, written-by
  • Anthony Moore - written-by
  • Peter Blegvad - written-by

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