Alex Wilson
On 2020’s These Are Not Your Dreams, Australian post-rock trio Sleepmakeswaves threw caution to the wind. Swerving producers and deadlines, they did things on their own terms. For a band that guitarist Otto Wicks-Green says are “always learning”, that process left them with plenty to consider for its follow-up. Multi-instrumentalist Alex Wilson traces the record’s origins back to the global shutdown that resulted in a wealth of material, which the band will continue to work through in the years ahead.
“We were suited to being confined to our home studios,” says Wilson today. “We wrote close to two hours’ worth of material during that period.”
“We’ve been in situations before where we’veWicks-Green responds. “We’d be freaking out that we didn’t have enough material or start second-guessing it. This was the opposite. We wrote the hell out of ourselves.”
