Album Info

They Will Find You Here

Indie Rock - 2011

The Tampa, Florida-based Sleepy Vikings invoke twilight landscapes and haunted characters on their debut album They Will Find You Here.... more

Tracklist

1

These Days

4:12 min
2

Calm

3:52 min
3

Hunters

3:33 min
4

Flashlight Tag

3:56 min
5

A Backyard Funeral

2:37 min
6

Twin Peaks

3:58 min
7

Corson Park

3:55 min
8

Dear Long Distance

4:23 min
9

White Wolves

4:34 min

About They Will Find You Here

The Tampa, Florida-based Sleepy Vikings invoke twilight landscapes and haunted characters on their debut album They Will Find You Here. There’s a Flannery O’Connor-like gothic weirdness evident in their lyrics, lent poignancy by the bittersweet paired vocals of Tessa McKenna and Julian Conner. Tunes like “Hunters,” “”Corson Park” and “Twin Peaks” are laced with visions of skeletal trees, rusted railways and vampire towns; ghosts flit about to mock alienated teenagers and deserted lovers. Even musically upbeat numbers like “Calm” seem emotionally bleak. For all their downbeat sentiments, there’s a kind of defiant jauntiness running through these songs, conveyed by their propulsive, swelling tempos and the band’s overall communal spirit. When the Vikings launch into extended instrumental passages — as in “Flashlight Tag” and “White Wolves” — they escape the confines of their collective angst and ascend into high, free flight. If this is shoegazer music, it’s the sort that can shake you awake with bursts of unexpected revelation.