Sleep (Max Richter album)
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| Studio album by Max Richter | ||||
| Released | September 4, 2015 | |||
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Avatar Studios (Manhattan, New York) AIR Studios (London, England) StudioKino (Berlin, Germany) |
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| Length | 504:21 (8:24:21) From Sleep – 59:59 |
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| Label | Deutsche Grammophon | |||
| Producer | Max Richter Christian Badzura (exec. producer) Yulia Mahr (exec. producer) |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 |
| The Line of Best Fit | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork | 7.0/10.0 |
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Sleep (also stylized as SLEEP) is an album by the neo-classical composer Max Richter. Released on September 4, 2015 on Deutsche Grammophon, as a digital download, and on December 11, 2015 – as an 8-CD/1-Blu-ray set. The album serves as a concept album based around the neuroscience of sleep, hence its length of over eight hours (in total, eight hours, twenty-four minutes, and twenty-one seconds).
Sleep was accompanied by simultaneous release of the one-hour-long album, From Sleep (stylized as from SLEEP), with seven additional tracks (different variations of tracks from the main album), and later by the remix album Sleep Remixes.
According to Richter, as described in the album's credits, Sleep is "an eight-hour lullaby", "a piece that is meant to be listened to at night ... structured as a large set of variations."
Richter conferred with American neuroscientist David Eagleman while working on the album's piece to learn about how the brain functions during sleep. Richter stated, "Sleeping is one of the most important things we all do ... We spend a third of our lives asleep and it's always been one of my favourite things, ever since I was a child. ... For me, Sleep is an attempt to see how that space when your conscious mind is on holiday can be a place for music to live."
The release of Sleep was accompanied by the one-hour-long album, entitled From Sleep (stylized as from Sleep), with seven additional tracks, not present on the eight-hour release, recorded during the same sessions.
From Sleep was promoted by music videos for three tracks: "Dream 13 (Minus Even)," "Path 5 (Delta)" and "Dream 3 (In the Midst of My Life)." Additionally, remixed versions of the three tracks, by Mogwai, Clark, Digitonal, Jürgen Müller, Kaitlyn Aurelia and Marconi Union, have been featured on a subsequent remix album Sleep Remixes, released digitally on February 19, 2016.
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