The Best Band In Wisconsin Is Arctic Sleep

Back in August 2014 we asked you to help us find the best unsigned bands in America. After listening to hundreds of submissions and fighting a lot, we finally narrowed down our pick for the cheesiest state. The best band in Wisconsin is Arctic Sleep.

Let me preface this by saying that I have done zero research on the state of Wisconsin for purposes of this write-up and that I’m relying entirely on what little I know about the state based on my exposure to what it’s most known for. Allow me to illustrate in bullet point form:

• Wisconsin’s union busting Governor Scott Walker has been elected to different positions on twelve different occasions based solely on the pretty presentation of his hair and teeth. This is just my opinion but you can thank poorly educated voters for the result. It’s also rumored that he snorts a lot of Koch.
• There’s this football team called the Green Bay Packers who have this popular guy on their team named Aaron Rodgers. He’s down with State Farm’s Discount Double Check and he wears khaki pants when he’s not throwing around a torpedo shaped projectile made of pig skin.
• The state is also famous for cheese which winds up on a lot of sub par death metal records.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way we can talk about the best band in Wisconsin: Arctic Sleep. This band does a lot of things that I vehemently despise musically; they have long songs, pristine production, they rarely ever mix up the tempos. Despite my contempt for all those attributes, I cannot deny that their latest album, Passage Of Gaia has all those things working in their favor. Arctic Sleep transports you high above the clouds and opens up a portal so that you can sit down Indian style while you find yourself entranced in their style of progressive atmospheric doom. There’s some auto tune going on in the vocals but it meets the needs of Goldilocks and her porridge specifications, it’s just right (and doesn’t reach T-Pain levels of absurdity). Arctic Sleep sounds like Intronaut‘s tender side clashing with the spacey elements of the Deftones Koi No Yokan. Listening to these guys makes you want to lie down on a hammock and drift off into space or focus your level of concentration while doing rad yoga poses and pilates. If you tune out all distractions and immerse yourself in this album, you will find that there is truly something special going on here. Arctic Sleep strikes a balance between beauty and heavy that so many have tried but few have achieved. How is this band not signed?

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