Credits:

Team Sleep

Description:

Team Sleep’s debut was in the works for a long time — something like ten years. Head Deftone Chino Moreno used to do four-track stuff with high-school pal Todd Wilkinson, and those casual recordings essentially were the genesis for this self-titled set of modernized mood music. The indie rock and dream pop influences drifting throughout Team Sleep appear in Moreno’s day job, too, but barring a few stretches here and there (“Blvd. Nights,” the end of “Live from the Stage”), hardness and volume are left largely to the Deftones. In fact, besides Moreno’s distinctive vocals, there’s little connectivity to his other band. There doesn’t need to be. Team Sleep is its own thing, a drifting fog of electronic and analog texture with a pool of interesting collaborators and the distinct feel of late-’80s/early-’90s alternative rock. (Team Sleep could probably do an awesome cover version of Catherine Wheel’s “Bla