Review: Team Sleep were never designed to exist in the music industry most of us recognise. First of all, their music doesn't really fit into anything that's easy to categorise - dream pop, trip hop, indie, post-punk, lo-fi, psychedelic, shoegaze, electronica. In 2024, that hybridity is standard, but in 2005, when their self-titled debut album first landed, things were far more shoe-boxed, if that's even a word. This is only part of the issue, though, from a sales perspective. Almost 20 years after it's initial release, Team Sleep remains the band's only studio album. They disbanded one year later, returning in 2014 for another 12 months before disappearing again. Their hiatus continues to this day. Now if that's not reason enough to dig deeper into the legacy, we don't know what is.
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