INFORMATION:
Sleepingdog is the project of Belgium-based songstress Chantal Acda. 2008 saw the release of her second album 'Polar Life' on Gizeh Records to critical acclaim. Joined on record and occasionally live by Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid), who provides the sonic landscapes to compliment Acda's celestial vocals and maudlin piano melodies. A new Sleepingdog record is due out 2011.

PRESS:
“a beautifully conceived and touchingly faint and tender ten track suite. Both bewitching and impeccably elegant, Acda and Wiltzie have crafted a rare thing of unfailing beauty that manages to simultaneously hurt, humble, heal and seduce. These winter worn fancies delightfully caress and enchant, like fading memories captured in celluloid they are tinged and dispatched with a timeless aura, the melodies classically trod - sensual, sensitive, sparse and scenic though bitter sweetly forlorn in their woven intimacy to provide an achingly fragile and beguiling backdrop for Acda’s shyly recluse and retiring like alluring intonations - none more so is the case than on the captivating and hymnal like ‘the sun sinks in the sea‘.”
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“Some music is quiet, no matter how loud you turn it up. Quiet is the new loud. Possibly. Anyway, there's an almost complete lack of any percussion, as minimal acoustic soundscapes swirl around Chantal Acda's quavering, vulnerable voice. There are suggestions of Mazzy Star, Stina Nordenstam and even Bjork at her very, very quietest. There's even a banjo on one song. Awesome.” DSD 

“‘Polar Life’, like the work of Nico circa ‘Desertshore’ and ‘The Marble Index’, or the cabin-folk of Bon Iver, speaks of solitude and emotional twilight, and should speak to the hearts of the beautifully glum.” PENNYBLACK

RELEASE DATE:
September 2008

TRACKLISTING:
1. Prophets
2. Your Eyes
3. Polar Life
4. The Sun Sinks in the Sea
5. Sunshine Daylight
6. When It Lies
7. Alleys
8. Little One
9. Ardennes
10. If Only

CREDITS:
Chantal Acda / Adam Wiltzie
with Boris Gronemberger

ARTWORK:
Christina Vantzou

LINKS:
Sleepingdog website

RELATED:
Gizeh Records Winter Sampler
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