Single Review: Sleepy Sun – Marina
California’s Sleepy Sun are fairly well known for taking inspiration from Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young amongst others in order to produce their blend of acid tinged psychedelic rock. In single Marina they seem to have gone a step further – the intro sounds like a slowed down, psyched up, lo-fi version of the Beatles ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, before leading into more familiar territory of pleasant enough dual vocals courtesy of Rachel Fannan and Brett Constantino backed by psychedelic rock.
The song is pretty good for the first 3.45 minutes, where it succeeds most is that it evokes an amazing feeling of being in the sun drenched Californian desert, while in reality I’m sitting in my lounge on a grey, windy day in the Medway Towns! Then at 3.46 minutes the song takes a sudden twist, the guitar drop out and the drums turn tribal (think Santana’s Jingo), which lasts for about a minute before normality resumes for the final minute of the song. Now I don’t mind songs being unpredictable but the change is so drastic that at first I thought the song had ended and we were on the next track. It just doesn’t work. It’s a shame because I really like Sleepy Sun, on the whole their album is very good. Maybe they need some to keep them in check and pull things back when they let things slip into self-indulgence like this. 3/5
Mark Cousens
Out 6th September
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