Sleep Cycle is the debut solo studio album by Animal Collective member Deakin (Josh Dibb), released on Bandcamp on April 6, 2016.
Background
Dibb originally started raising funds for
Sleep Cycle through a
Kickstarter campaign in 2009.
Dibb intended to use the funds to perform at the Festival au Désert in
Mali,
Africa, the creation of a book and CD, and a charitable donation to
Temedt, a Mali organization working to help enslaved black
Tuareg people.
Dibb's Kickstarter campaigned amassed 205 backers who pledged $25,985 to help bring the project to life.
[ All the funds that were raised through the Kickstarter campaign were eventually donated to charity and the album was ultimately self-funded by Dibb.]
Reception
The album received acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a Standard score rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album has received an Weighted mean score of 84, indicating "universal acclaim", based on 6 reviews.
Track listing
Personnel
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Deakin – recording (1-3, 5), mixing (1-5), artwork
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Dutch E Germ (Tim DeWit) – drums (4), samples (6)
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Nicolas Vernhes – recording (4, 6), mixing (4)
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Peter Kember – mixing (6)
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Greg St. Pierre – artwork
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Rob Carmichael – artwork
Further reading
