Asleep.

Igloo

Sleepless in Zurich: Asleep.’s third album «Igloo» is a record about songwriting, a record about insomnia, but also a record about the dreamscapes of everyday life.

Now you’ve turned thirty and you look back on your own youth („knew all types of snow, watched them fall and grow“). You grow crystals in a lab (“speak, crystal, speak”), exchange games for duties („wars are played, games are fought“) and struggle with deadlines („I’ve been awake for several weeks, handing in the first draft“), while you try to find yourself in the expectations of others („I can feel all the mes, that people see“).

And so you take the time you haven’t got and sing your laptop a lullaby. At three in the morning, drunk on fatigue and yet sleepless, a message in a bottle, encapsuled by the night. Most songs on «Igloo» were created like this: at night, when everything is dreaming, humming a tune alone before your computer and forwarding it to the band. Now and then somebody writes straight back, still awake, too. Because you don’t need to sleep to dream. Sometimes you even have to stay up all night to fuse the science of daily routine with the poetics of insomnia into a couple of dreamy pop songs.

released February 14, 2014

Music by Asleep.

Asleep. are: Fabio Andres, Nicolas Sciarrone, Marius Lapagna, Patrik Schmid, Sascha Jösler

Lyrics by Fabio Andres

Recorded at Bau 2 Studio Winterthur

Produced by Roman Frischknecht & Asleep.

Mastered by Dan Suter at echochamber Zurich

Artwork by Sascha Jösler & Asleep.

Label: kuenschtli.ch / Irascible (CH)

Igloo II (Single)

Taken from the new album «Igloo» coming February 14th 2014.

released December 5, 2013

Written by Fabio Andres

Lyrics by Fabio Andres

Arranged and played by Asleep.

Asleep. are Fabio Andres, Nicolas Sciarrone, Marius Lapagna, Patrik Schmid, Sascha Jösler

Produced by Roman Frischknecht and Asleep.

Online release only