Combining underground avant-garde electronic elements, crushing guitar melodies, and sparing but evocative lyrical content Sleepersound injects intelligence and artistic originality into the Midwest music scene. The key to Sleepersound’s continued success is their knack for never underestimating their audience. Whether composing with noise and electronic soundscapes or bucking a paint by the numbers musical approach, the band has consistently stayed unique and experimental. Always discerning while releasing challenging albums of exceptional quality, Sleepersound continues on a journey towards an even wider audience.

Sleepersound is a development from a previous project that David D’Antonio rooted in St. Louis and Chicago — the latter where David was born and raised, coming to Milwaukee by way of Chicago, then Naples, Italy, and St. Louis. Started in 2016, the band formed by a chance Craigslist ad with Chicago native Mike Campise, Guitarist Kenny Buesing and Drummer Dan Niedziejko all now residing in the Milwaukee area.

Teaming on their first EP in 2017’s “Pilots, Passengers, Portals” the band began to develop their expansive indie-dreampop sound, layered with guitar crescendos and a driving rhythm section. Their collaboration centering around their practice space and studio, they captured all nuance and ideas that would become their next album. With their homebase being a workshop and the studio space built by drummer Dan Niedziejko, the early work was forged by these sessions and live show experimentation, sometimes set to films and imagery as impromptu soundtracks.

2018 saw the next album “In medias Res” combining ambient electronic elements with fluid guitar hooks while further honing ethereal ballads. It was the first complete album and served as a blueprint for future releases. Rock and Roll Globe described Sleepersound’s work on the album “Without any hyperbole, they are creating a new sound. Their approach is defined by the twin guitar pyrotechnics… atmospheric effects that ebb and flow, as if connected to a universal heartbeat.” Additional press continued to roll in, with Musoscribe declaring a “somnambulant feel…squalls of distorted-yet-far-away guitars, drumming that has a Revolver-esque tripping-over-itself feel… adding in hypnotic processed sounds and a more sinister feel…” The positive attention and incendiary shows that followed fueled the bands continued efforts.

2021 introduced audiences to yet another chapter in Sleepersound with the “Idle Voices” album. Written and recorded during the pandemic, it served as a document to the darker and uncertain times. The album proved to be yet another critical hit with a May feature on NPR’s All Songs Considered, where Bob Boilen proclaimed “The group Sleepersound has an album coming in August that I love”. Featured national play of the track “Silence Otherwise” stoked growing interest and fans, amidst the chaos of on again, off again live shows victim to the pandemic. Others took note, with Nigel Gotrich of Vikings Choice summarizing “Sleepersound pays homage to a slower, sadder slice of ’90s indie rock near and dear to my heart (Low, Codeine) while opening vistas with a GY!BE-y vibe. Even so, it’s hard to pull off that era without total mimicry, but Sleepersound’s cooing dual vocals and dramatic sense of space keep everything moving.”

2023 saw the band pushing further, with a completely instrumental composition commissioned for the HYBYCOZO art installation in downtown Milwaukee entitled “Lightfield”. This one hour compostion by Sleepersound entitled “Soundfield” explores more experimentation and electronic elements into recurring themes stoked by  trance inducing jazz lines that intertwine the listener into signature Sleepersound moves while further pushing boundaries into vast soundscapes.

Constantly writing and rewriting songs, Sleepersound settled on the idea of creating a sonically experimental studio album without giving any thought to live presentation. The resulting “Soundfield” was an integration and interpretation of 6 years of experimental ideas caught in the studio, then trimmed and distilled into 60 minutes of ambient electronic textures and rolling pseudo jazz experiments. While this work has been heard alongside the art installation, it has not been released, with the band looking to release it in the next year.

2024 also finds the band finishing their next full length album, which promises new recording techniques, new songs of even greater inventiveness and a fresh take on the dreamy experimental music that Sleepersound is known for.