In Your Sleep

by Dictaphone Blues

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Incorporating garage disco elements and indie chime in one swift blow, In Your Sleep seamlessly straddles the divide between the Crash Bandicoot theme, and the baggiest of Britain’s guitar bands. Wry and honest, dry and satirical, the song is an ode to everyone’s digital drug of choice and how it might just be best if the world we’ve built up all caved in on us… so we can just give it another try.

lyrics

Society is dim
We don’t need to read when we can skim
Our lopsided feed, scroll in your sleep
Society is grim
As we discreetly film someone else
Sitting on the bus, minding their own business
Our moral compass spins to its death

Chorus
A part of me hopes maybe we all fall down and get another try
Is hubris a sickness the human race cannot deny?

Is this existence just a scam
Oh sometimes I don’t know what to believe
My lopsided feed, is making me question reality
What kind of world do we live in?
When we discreetly film someone else
Just sitting on the bus, minding their own business.

Chorus
A part of me hopes maybe we all fall down and get another try
Is hubris a sickness the human race cannot deny?
Scroll in our sleep, wake up in decline
Scroll all the way to our demise.

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released September 24, 2019
Recorded/produced/mixed by Edward Castelow
at Mezzanine Mt. Eden
Mastered by Stuart Harwood
Artwork by Callum Rooney

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Dictaphone Blues Auckland, New Zealand

Dictaphone Blues began as a bedroom project for Edward Castelow in 2006. Now a four piece live aural incarnation including Morgan Leary, Brad Fafjeta and Jamie Hannah. The band continue to play live and make music. Enjoy.

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