Review: Dream The Electric Sleep – Lost and Gone Forever
When Neon Rain guitarist and frontman Trever Willmott announced that he was taking some time to work with his other band, I really thought nothing of it. I was thinking we might hear a good solid acoustic folk/shoegaze demo from his solo efforts. Boy was I wrong. Dream The Electric Sleep turned out to be so much more than a follow on project. I hate to use the word due to it not being respected, but it is suffice to say that DTES’s debut album Lost and Gone Forever, is “epic”. This album is about as perfect of a conceptual based indie Dream Theater-esque as you will ever hear.
The guitars from Page and Willmott are an obvious highlight, as there are constant absences of Pages chilling yet beautiful vocals spread throughout the album. When he does sing, Page tells the tale of a coal miners plight through such an important, but hardly understood way of life. Through cryptic and sometimes down right frightening tones and mannerisms, Lost and Gone Forever comes off as a progressive answer to the new wave of indie rockers who seem more oriented towards confusion and pretentiousness, rather than full fledged rock and roll abilities. Dream The Electric Sleep is a band that could definitely bring the concept of the power anthem back to a world that has discredited such a tool.
You really will not find a single faulting element throughout the tracklist of this album. If hard hitting drum and bass lines, ear splitting guitar solos, and illustrious and visual storytelling (all done in a mild mannered sense of chaos) are your forte, Dream The Electric Sleep’s debut album might very well be one of the finest albums you will hear all year long, and will surely become a staple in your already (probably) impressive music collection.
