Don't Pretend This Isn't Life EP

by slumberjunkie

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gilbertconstant This album is absolutely incredible! Favorite track: Waiting For Us.

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1.	Don't Pretend This Isn't Life 05:39	buy track
2.	Waiting For Us 04:31	buy track
3.	A Miserable Man 05:03	buy track
4.	Dandelion Clock 04:37	buy track

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Slumberjunkie’s fourth EP continues to cement his place as one of the UKs most exciting emerging producers. Carving out a distinct sound that transcends the high octane intertwining beautiful songwriting, he’s an artist living the emotion of music building an encapsulating world for the listener to get swept up in.

15 years of writing under various aliases and honing his skills as a producer, musician and singer/songwriter would eventually lead to Slumberjunkie. Releases on Ratface Records and Technical Glitch would eventually lead to Silver Bear Recordings who snapped up his unique style that often leans into the sensibilities of jungle and DnB, stitching together fast, melancholy, and euphoria with a colorful thread. Slumberjunkie isn’t setting out to make music for the club though, inspired by the likes of Tom Waits and the Cocteau Twins, he aims to create a vignette into another world.

On his music Slumberjunkie expands - “I enjoy making music more than anything else in the world, it’s an opportunity to take some of life's sad events and make them into something I’m proud of. Grief, joy, pain, happiness, sadness, it's a powerful thing to acknowledge that you have this range of emotions, and use them as a vessel to make art to enjoy in the end - flip whatever was making me feel shit on its head. That’s why there’s usually a slight angst and bleakness to the music to begin with that naturally develops into something maybe slightly tender in the end”

The tracks indeed do play out in this formula. The dark and unnerving opens into moving melody and chords and you find yourself somewhere between ecstasy and melancholy. Whichever side it hits you on, it has a serious impact.

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released February 15, 2023

Artwork by Andreea Ilisăi
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux

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