#sleep token posting

[yearnforarcadia]

They're talking shit

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[tedzyrotten]

vessel air guitar will never not be funny

[nosadstosads]

I made some Sleep Token memes

enjoy

[that-unfortunate-crow]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the quiet crying at the end of "Bloodsport", the soft sighs at the end of "Jaws", or the Barely Concealed Rage at the end of "Gods"????!!!

[hypnotise-the-vessel]

Ya’ll I think we kinda went past the implication that Vessel is like, a whole ass deity himself now? Like? Seemingly within the lore? He’s a whole ass deity?? Or did I misunderstand? I need to read the graphic novel still. But he totally has powered up after the last album. And something about that?? Makes me even MORE obsessed with Look to windward. Like?? He’s full on badass mode and I’m in love?? Even more creature than before

[tech-depression-inventory]

me: i need to save money, i am an adult

my inbox:

me:

[bulbasaur-gone-rogue]

Very bravely blorbo posting on blorbo site.

THIS POST IS ABOUT SLEEP TOKEN. EVERYONE BE NORMAL. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHO PEOPLE “REALLY ARE”, HALF OF THE POINT OF MAKING ANONYMOUS MUSIC IS TO SEPARATE THE ART FROM THE ARTIST. LEAVE THAT TORMENTED WHITEBOY ALONE.

Aro/ace perspective on the sleep token albums as someone who has experienced emotional abuse in the form of someone using their mental health and their life as a bargaining chip or lever to gain intimacy and then went to a lot of therapy about it.

I think that it’s actually really important to have the art be anonymous and also be actively known and stated to be about an abusive relationship. It’s important that people have a thing where they can go “omg that’s so me WAIT. WAAAAIT.” Especially in the face of a lot of media that blurs the line between unrealistic fantasy and what people should actually be looking for in a relationship.

Nasty un-lore takes beneath the cut because I don’t want to longpost the people who don’t care about my distorted British boyband.

First up, I’m gonna go ahead and say that while Vessel is the frontman of the band, I’m not sure if the experiences that this band talks about are solely his, or his at all. It seems likely, but I’m going to talk about the band as a collective unit, because they’ve all worked on and contributed to this music, and not talk about things solely in relation to Vessel. Again, I’m not really talking about the Deity Sleep aspect of the music, I’m talking about the narrative involving emotional abuse.

Sundowning’s limitless devotion that looks like self-sacrifice. “I would move Heaven and earth for you, no matter the cost”, the “you don’t want me as much as I want you, and I’ll do whatever it takes to make up the difference”.

This Place Will Become Your Tomb is… hard to listen to. It’s probably the darkest and most hopeless of the albums so far, and feels like reaching a breaking point. You’ve given all of yourself until there’s nothing left and it’s still not enough. You tried to keep the other person afloat, but now you’re both drowning.

Take Me Back to Eden feels like the Oh Shit realization that I think this band has been for other people (I pretty consistently think about the picture of that one show where a girl is holding a sign that says “Sleep Token woke me up”. Whether or not this is what she meant, I think about it like this). There’s an element of “I want to get off this ride, you don’t see me as a person” that was kind of happening in the previous album, but it’s more aware. It’s not “am I even a person”, it’s “you don’t see me as a person, do you” and there’s this element of realizing that the relationship is bad you, and kind of wishing you could go back to before you realized because now you Know and everything is different and you can never go back, but also knowing you can never go back to not knowing. You’ve learned something that can’t be unlearned and the only way is forward. Maybe it was easier when you could pretend everything was perfect and that this is what love looked like.

My horrible terrible cold take is that Rain didn’t start out as a happy hopeful song. It’s BEFORE Take Me Back To Eden on the album. It didn’t start out as “you make everything better, you’ve made me new and clean of my past”. Maybe that’s what it is now, but I don’t think it started as that.

I think it started as the honeymoon period. The part where the person apologizes and says it won’t happen again and everything feels like this time it’s going to be better. Maybe, as time has progressed (and especially with the addition of Even in Arcadia), Rain has become more of how I typically see it read. But I don’t think it started out like that, or when listened to within the context of the album as a whole.

Even in Arcadia is. God. I don’t think that these albums (or at least the narrative parts) are actually reflective of how the band feels at the time the album is written, because they’re too evenly spaced, and the story is a bit too linear and self-aware. I think that there’s a general arc outlined based on a past recovery, and that time-specific tracks like Damocles and Caramel are added as the album is actually written. (though to be fair, I am a bit late to the party, so I don’t know if tracks like Atlantic that are a VERY specific emotion have been performed live in the past. That specific song is one that I hope people have treated with due respect, but I am aware that people don’t tend to treat this artist well.)

BUT ANYWAY. EVEN IN ARCADIA.

I’m in shambles. It’s so bittersweet and hesitant and scared but also so hopeful in a way that we haven’t really seen in the other albums. It sounds like the beginnings of healing, the beginnings of self-forgiveness, but also the “I am always going to be impacted by what you did. For better or worse, you’ve changed me permanently. Maybe broken me permanently” but also there’s a song about water ACTUALLY FEELING WARM. about an infinite warmth that never runs out. This could be a metaphor for anything, but it feels like finding a purpose to keep going.

Even in Arcadia is an important album because it shows how that there is an “after”. Things get better. Not immediately and not all the way, but that the drowning isn’t forever, and that getting out IS the right move. That it’s a hard move, and a scary one, but that it ultimately pays off.

Side note that probably comes from me poking romantic and sexual relationships with a stick. There’s an element of things in tracks like Granite and Gethsemane of physical intimacy being transactional or used as a bargaining chip or being one sided in a way that only benefits the abuser. Of the narrator being seen and used as an object for the other person’s enjoyment, and not in a fun or sexy way, and then discarded when they aren’t convenient. Hey guys. Hey. I’m just gonna put that there next to Caramel and Damocles and let y’all think about that one.

Anyway what’s going on with House Viridian and Feathered Host. Those feel like two opposing factions and I want to know what’s going on with them before picking a side. I know about the Instagram accounts and the sheet music as hype for Even in Arcadia, but they feel like something else with the ongoing narrative themes of the cycle of abuse and perseverance in the face of hopelessness.

[bubbles-floating]

In a city of ice, there are burning cathedrals

Turning the skies into glass

And through echoing futures are the buckling sutures

That hold shut the wounds of the past

[gothheathenhimbo]

Hot take, I don’t ever want to “love someone like a sleep token song” again. I love their music, it is bracing and deep and connecting. And listen to me, while I’m aromantic, I have loved like a Sleep Token song. The reason I am so wrapped up in their music is because I have loved like they sing about. If it were just about being deeply and lovingly devoted to someone, I’d be all for it even despite my identity. The thing is, a massive portion of the themes of their songs is that that devotion and love isn’t what it seems. It’s rose colored glasses that are so deceivingly beautiful you ignore the reality beyond them. You ignore the toxic person you are chasing after, lusting after, loving but never being loved in return. In your need to be close to them you mistake their bad traits for good ones, it’s not till the glasses wear off that their eyes turn black in the low light. But it’s a cycle you get trapped in, preferring the glasses to the reality and going so far to keep convincing yourself the glasses are reality and if you just give them another chance, give them more of you, worship them more. They’ll love you. But they won’t, and the scars that you carry forward when you do break the cycle, you’ll carry them with you for a long time, if they heal at all. Real deep love doesn’t mean losing yourself to someone, if it does it’s not love, it’s a mockery of it.

[august--and-everything-after]

New sleep token single tomorrowwww

[vowelchart]

[yearnforarcadia]

Making this sign has been a joke between me and my partners for almost two years 🤣

Tiktok/twitter: yearnforarcadia

[tedzyrotten]

oh okay that’s vessel being cute for the thousandth time…

[nosadstosads]

when is it MY turn

when will someone talk about MY chemistry

[that-unfortunate-crow]

I have descended into madness-

The things I do for slight obsessions.

The language translations-

[Edit- I have found the rest of the symbols!]-

[YAY COMPLETE ALPHABET]

[tech-depression-inventory]

GET TF OUT OF MY INBOX RIGHT NOW.

GET. OUT.

I CANT AFFORD THIS