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The Sleeping Planes
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Out of 16 votes - Similar Artists: Iron & Wine, The Shins, Jayhawks, Wilco, Bright Eyes
Out of 16 votes
- Location: Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Alternative Folk
Editor's review
Kansas has the Jayhawks. Nebraska has Bright Eyes. Now Iowa gets on board with the Sleeping Planes, who toil at the indie-folk end of the alt-country spectrum. The Planes' dramatic, inverted rhyme schemes recall their contemporaries in the lo-fi school, while anguished harmonies remind listeners that misery loves company.
Biography
The Sleeping Planes are JJ Alberhasky (Sidehill Winders), Martin Carpenter (The Little Achievers) and Cory Hutchinson-Reuss (Seven Story Cory). Formed in 2005 in Iowa City, The Sleeping Planes have been quickly gaining momentum with their unique brand of emotionally vulnerable folk-pop. Carpenter and Alberhasky are both experienced songwriters and together with Hutchinson-Reuss have synergized into a creative force greater than the sum of the parts.
Driven by the innate desire to be people who create and the urge to give voice to the hard and real moments of the human experience, The Sleeping Planes combine their voices into ethereal three-part harmonies layered onto spacious instrumentation in lush satisfaction of their call. The Sleeping Planes immediately connect with people, but not because their music is simply a pleasure to listen to (and it is). People pay attention because they manage to target with pinpoint accuracy the realities that lie under the surface of the human existence.
