Sleep Research Facility or SleepResearch_Facility or even SRF, sometimes, is the solo work of one Kevin Doherty from Glasgow, Scotland.Kevin’s music is dark glacial ambient music inspired (at least this album) by the cold Antarctic region. The music is mostly slow paced ambient music with swirling drones of synth and manipulated noise and environmental recordings. Since Kevin’s music is indeed intended for sleep or relaxing at least, the music never has any sudden disturbances, such as harsh noise or sudden musical shifts. The music is very sluggish but evolving, and if you close your eyes and began to drift into sleep while listening to this recording you can really picture the freezing coldness of Antarctica tundra. Think about it; snow blowing in the wind, ice everywhere, frozen water, and heck if you want throw in a fucking penguin or polar bear in there somewhere. Point is this is some really stunning dark cold ambient music, which of course always works wonders with the ultra hot summer ‘round these parts, but I'm somewhat wondering if they'll arrive this year.
Of course there isn’t much melody to speak of in Kevin’s work, but I don’t think it’s really necessary since this music is for resting. Even though the five songs and the fifty eight minutes of music are enjoyable from start to finish it does sound somewhat like one long piece broken into five. Additionally the albums booklet folds out to form a map of Antarctica, which is certainly a novel idea if I ever saw one. Fans of dark icy cold ambient music should definitely enter Kevin's facility.
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