Tracks:
- Glacia
- Indie
- Elena
- You Have Cured a Million Ghosts from Roaming in My Head
- Inebria
- The Ice (Feels 3 ft thick between us)
- Welcome Home
- I Remember Life Above the Surface
Somewhere sound becomes music & music becomes sound. Swollen & bursting guitar tones varying from freight trains to falling snow. Memories of isolation that don't kill off hope. Like winter, reminiscent of the past & the future, immediately recognizable, but always new.
"Listening to these shimmering night-ocean songs of perception slowed nearly to a stop melted that world-self barrier to a point I'd never reached before. Both grandiose and dissolute, 'No Solace in Sleep' is what it might be like to dance with a 'hungry ghost' of the Bardo Thodol just as it began to realize that being All might be preferable to being a frustrated fragment. There's an unspeakable tenderness to this ponderously gentle music, like the sea who lets the sailor live just because it can. Softly ringing, echoing rhythms seem almost buried under the shifting ultramarine layers until you realize that the full ambience is no more than the dance of the individual themes. 'Rapture of the deep,' the divers call it. Now I can say I've been there."
- Gothic Preservation Society
"What loneliness sounds like if ever it occurs to you to listen."
- Catgirl Elocution
"This debut album from Aarktica is simply beautiful. A captivating musical experience that is a story without words, yet completely within the realm of human understanding. No Solace in Sleep made my whole body chill as if it had just been dipped into fresh snow. But the chill it delivers is more comforting than anything. The music locks you in a trance that can only be comprehendible through direct experience. There is a rare beauty delivered with the CD...a striking combination of mystery and familiarity. I can honestly say this release sent a shiver straight through my heart. Although I'm not usually a big fan of experimental music, No Solace in Sleep managed to generate a feeling of serenity inside of me that no other performer ever has."
- Bleeding Minds
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