Sleep Token is the band we deserve. A superficial cross-section of the entire English-language music landscape. This is music that has spawned itself. And like any average creation, it drowns in its own predictability. It's not terrible, just as the abstraction called “musical majority” or “average hospital temperature” cannot be terrible. It is lazy and banal in every aspect: from the cringe-worthy and annoying vocal effects to the seemingly neural network-written ... read more