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''Sleep No More'' was released on August 21, 1981 on Polydor Records. It was The Comsat Angels' second album and is widely regarded as a masterpiece that had a major influence on bands such as U2 (who toured with the band) and latterly Editors and Interpol. The album was reissued on CD twice, in 1995 by RPM Records and in 2006 by Renascent Records, with different track listings (see below). ''Sleep No More'' produced no singles, but it had the highest UK chart ranking for any Comsats album, peaking at #51.〔Sleeve notes from Renascent re-issue of ''Sleep No More''〕 After the rushed production of the first album, ''Waiting for a Miracle'', the band was able to put a lot more craft into ''Sleep No More''. Frontman Steve Fellows described how they achieved a resonant sound on a couple of the tracks: "Pete Wilson suggested taking the drums out of the studio – on the fourth floor at Polydor – and putting them near the lift-shaft (elevator shaft) by the stairs. We then put microphones on the three floors above and below....Obviously we were only able to do this sort of thing in the evening when the offices were closed!"〔 Fellows felt the album ''Sleep No More'' had a unique quality among the band's work: "The only () which had a 'thread' through it was ''Sleep No More'', the 'thread' was the sound we wanted to get."〔Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows Q & A Session May 2002 (The Comsat Angels - The Sleep No More Web-site )〕 Critics recognized it as a great followup to ''Waiting for a Miracle''. Allmusic later said, "''Sleep No More'' is certainly more powerful, and it's also a greater achievement. Here The Comsat Angels became one of the era's exceptional bands."〔Allmusic review of ''Sleep No More'' []〕 Mark Cooper of ''Sounds'' magazine wrote in a 1981 review that it was "an album that is head and shoulders above anything else recorded this year",〔 while Jack Rabid of ''The Big Takeover'' magazine summed up the album by saying, "I think ''Sleep No More'' is one of the greatest pieces of music ever released!"〔Springhouse forum, comment posted by Jack Rabid, December 9, 1997 [http://tripalot.com/springhouse/post01.htm Springhouse - Forum - Archives 01]〕 When ''Sleep No More'' was released, it sold out very quickly. Unfortunately Polydor took two weeks to ship additional stock to the record stores, an issue which was believed to have had a negative effect on the album's momentum.〔 == Track listing (1981) == ''All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake'' # "Eye Dance" # "Sleep No More" # "Be Brave" # "Gone" # "Dark Parade" # "Diagram" # "Restless" # "Goat of the West" # "Light Years" # "Our Secret" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sleep No More (The Comsat Angels album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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