"Leagues Beneath" is a single by the American

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band

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. The song was released for free digitally on May 23, 2018 through

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's 2017 singles series, marking Sleep's second entry following 2014's " The Clarity". "Leagues Beneath" was released a month after the band's 2018 return album, ''

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'', which marked Sleep's first full-length studio release in twenty years. Later in 2018, "Leagues Beneath" was released on etched vinyl through Third Man Records.

Composition

Musically, "Leagues Beneath" is a long, slow epic that begins with B-tuned guitar and gradually builds by introducing new elements.

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' vocals are not heard until nearly six minutes into the track. After the song's protracted crescendo, it concludes with a somber passage where layers strip away and give way to clean, psychedelic string sounds. Phil Witmer of ''

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'' praised "Leagues Beneath", writing that it is "possibly bigger than anything on ''The Sciences''", and Brock Thiessen of ''

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'' called it "sprawling" and "a total scorcher". ''

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'' wrote that the song is "droning, transcendental, ndpunctuated with next-level riffing." At nearly seventeen minutes, "Leagues Beneath" is the group's longest track since 1999's "

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" and, by some metrics, constitutes an EP.

Track listing

Personnel

Sleep *

– vocals, bass *

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– guitars * Jason Roeder – drums

References

External links

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