Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, DREAM THE ELECTRIC SLEEP return with their third full-length Beneath The Dark Wide Sky. The trio already caused some media rustling with the first two releases Lost And Gone Forever and Heretics and they will, for sure, do it again with their new effort, this time even more distinct. 
Beneath The Dark Wide Sky turns out to be an epic, bombastic and melodic art of sound. This new record almost effortlessly balances between spherical transcendence, musical sophistication and near Pop-like melodies. Guitar walls meters high, spacy keyboards and the voice of singer Matt Page that thrones above all, create an image that is almost too homogenous, you know, hardly edges, outbursts or complex passages. But it doesn’t narrow the listening pleasure any bit as Beneath The Dark Wide Sky offers enough variety and dynamics.
To give an impression what Beneath The Dark Wide Sky is about I’d like to recommend not only one but a few songs that display the whole spectrum DREAM THE ELECTRIC SLEEP span: Let The Light Flood In is, despite its atmosphere, a strongly rocking track with a catchy refrain. We Who Blackout The Sun is a bloody great instrumental with an affinity to Post Rock, and The Good Night Sky is a Pop-like, good-humored song with an AOR/Melodic Rock-like refrain.
To sum it up: Beneath The Dark Wide Sky ranges between the poles “melancholy” (but never too dark), and “euphoria” (but never too cheerful), offers dynamics due to its bombastic moments and develops a breathtaking balance between Pop and sophistication.
Compared with the previous albums, Beneath The Dark Wide Sky is significantly more compact, 20 Minutes shorter what benefits the tracks.
Some name dropping: Ok, if you say Art Rock, Riverside immediately comes to mind. Fits but doesn’t go far enough. Faded Oceansize had a similar approach, and early Pure Reason Revolution would help as well. For the Pop-like side of music the good old times of Coldplay come to mind. Great record anyway!