Arms and Sleepers

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Boston, MA

Arms and Sleepers is Max Lewis (Boston, MA) and Mirza Ramic (Portland, ME). The band was formed in 2006 and has since released a handful of albums and EPs. Arms and Sleepers have extensively toured North America, Europe, and the UK. Upcoming rele... view more

Praise for Matador

"...a foreign, yet strangely familiar place to feel right at home in." -Redefine

"An absolutely beautiful album." -Tome to the Weather Machine

"Absolutely stunning." -The Sirens Sound

"Lewis and Ramic are getting good at what they do. Quite damn good." -Babysue

"Arms and Sleepers has made a record that is refreshing and engaging." -Star City Blog

Praise for Arms and Sleepers: Live Shows, Black Paris 86, and Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive

"...soft, dreamy compositions—warm, textured, heady as a summer night, watching stars sparkle in the blackness..." -Portfolio Weekly (VA)

"Lush, delicate, and expertly textured..." -Mountain Xpress (NC)

“Soft, intricate, pensive, and soothing...this is an album with a ton of staying power” –Babysue

"For anyone looking for a refreshing new change of pace, I have little doubt that Arms and Sleepers could be the stimulus you are looking for." -The Silent Ballet

"Arms and Sleepers' music is about evoking stories from the subtle disintegration and regenerations of life, capturing fleeting moments when humanity reaches a crescendo but there's no one there to witness it." -Eugene Weekly (OR)

"Moody, strange, atmospheric, mysterious. The ambient avant-garde sound of electronica duo Arms and Sleepers eludes easy description." -The Charleston Gazette (WV)

"Arms and Sleepers have chosen to go the path of originality and have really created a marvelous groundwork for their musical career." - N/A Reviews

"...the overriding vibe is so laid back as to be supine, with the horns and voices used to enhance the dreamlike textures generated by the keyboard-bass-programming mix." -The Times of Acadiana (Baton Rouge)

"If nature could digitally remix its collection of summer night sounds, the disc would be a sister to the music Arms and Sleepers produce. Soothing, earthy, and electronic, it's nature plugged into the wall socket..." -City Pages (Minneapolis)

"...jazz- and trip-hop-influenced electro-pop, IDM-pop punctuated by effective and never-distracting vocals..." -Newcity Chicago

"It's hard for some people to believe that electronic music can have a real emotional core. Cambridge, MA duo Arms and Sleepers leaves little doubt that such machine-generated soul is possible." -Centerstage Chicago

"Black Paris 86 from electronica duo Arms and Sleepers sort of plays like the soundtrack of an introspective indie flick or a deep space sci-fi movie." -Lansing Noise

"Early contender for Best of the Year, easily." -The Speed of Silence

"Arms and Sleepers make ethereal, noir electronic music just this side of other sex-inducing acts like Portishead and M83." -Boston's Weekly Dig

"...a quiet, introspective rainy-day soundtrack..." -Eugene Weekly

"Evoking everything from Saxon Shore, Sigur Ros and Sleeping Kings Of Iona to Mogwai, Portishead and Radiohead, Arms and Sleepers seem in step with a lineage of bands whose purpose is more to make art than millions." -Jamestown Post-Journal

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