Eric Sleeper's Beautiful Lies is out now - one bold, no-nonsense debut from the New York-based alternative artist that exposes the disconnect between modern life’s facade and the raw feelings that lie underneath. Sleeper proudly embraces the Sahara Desert’s grunge aesthetic, weaving 10 gritty tracks of lyrical sharpness and a punk heart into an amalgam of self-assessment that feels personal yet emits universal a feeling.
Sleeper grunts through the moody swagger of "White Fences" and the punk charged pulse of "Midnight Robber," charting a path through deception, addiction and internal conflict honest and free of sugar-coating. The album's standout track, "Ghost," speaks perfectly to the album's theme about the most delicious lies often take us the farthest from ourselves.
The songs "Burn" and "What You Do To Me" are beautifully melodic, yet while equal parts angst, Suffused with that matching feeling of seeking some Nirvana and the Cure without it feeling sheepish.
This album was produced by Simon Ficken at Backroom Studios and has an appearance that is polished but not too polished, like the truths which Beautiful Lies seeks to surface. Beautiful Lies is an unapologetically confident and gripping introduction to an artist who is capable of speaking truth with distortion and depth.