“Zelienople” Archives

The ambient trio’s lush new single is especially atmospheric, even by their standards.

The Chicago trio’s shadowy post-rock is hypnotic, meandering, and consistently captivating.

We discuss the band’s “new” sound, their new member, and what it’s like to record in a haunted apartment.

Sleeper Coach is much more oriented towards deep guitar drones and layers of noise and fuzz, with the only real structure provided by rhythmic loops, themselves fairly indistinct and gauzy.

There’s a breathtaking quality to these songs, a sort of wonder that only comes when a band is more concerned with aesthetics than academics.