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    LUCID DREAMING

    May 21, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT DORIA.

    If the name Alex Wilson sounds particularly familiar, it may be due to the fact he’s been a valued contributor to Australian Guitar since long before I even started interning here (and now I run the show!) – or, perhaps, because you’re into cerebral, sizzling instrumental post-rock, and you’ve found yourself deep in the rabbithole of sizzling riffs and sprawling soundscapes that only Sleepmakeswaves can offer. Wilson is the dude noodling on the bass in this Sydney-native trio of transcendence, and as of late, he’s also stepped into the role of taking their inspired ideas from the mind to the masses as a producer and engineer.

    The band’s first full-scale project with Wilson at the helm is perhaps their most ambitious yet: three EPs, each with its own thematic framework and series of unique concepts, trickled out across 2020 and forming one intensely

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