Review Summary: 5/5 Stars. Sleep Well, Beast!
After the bedbug exterminators overcharged me I was still having a lot of trouble sleeping. I couldn't afford a copy of Infinite Jest so I started searching for a sleep aid and with a simple search of "Sleep Well" in google, I found this. It arrived in my mailbox in just three days but some kids thought it would be HILARIOUS to smash my mailbox. Somehow, the CD was unharmed and I took it inside, where I fell asleep almost immediately. After using the CD successfully over a hundred times, I feel like I can accurately review this album.
1. Nobody Else Will Be There
A good song. I do not like to be disturbed when I sleep.
2. Day I Die
In this song, the singer keeps asking where he'll be when he dies. To which I say, thankfully not here disturbing me as I sleep, as established by the first song!
3. Walk It Back
In this song, the singer starts muttering and cursing, which takes me back to my childhood when I was trying to sleep and my dad would come home late and watch Dallas really loud.
4. The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
Sometimes I pretend this album is my imaginary friend who nicknamed me Beast. In this song, he forgets my nickname and calls me The System, which is also a cool nickname but not accurate because it is not Total Darkness I need for sleep but rather the complete absence of bedbugs.
5. Born to Beg
I really relate to this song as it reminds me of trying to get the bedbug exterminators to lower their price and it makes sense that the song sounds sad because it is about failure.
6. Turtleneck
I hate this song because it always wakes me up and because my mom made me wear turtlenecks all the time as a kid even though they were itchy.
7. Empire Line
I fall asleep almost immediately when this song comes on, so it is my favorite song on the album.
8. I'll Still Destroy You
Sometimes I pretend that the 'You' in this song is the bedbug exterminators and I tie them onto my bed and watch the bedbugs eat them alive, but in a sort of artistic way.
9. Guilty Party
This is where I forgive the bedbug men, telling them that 'there's no guilty party' anymore, because they are dead.
10. Carin at the Liquor Store
I relate to this song a lot.
11. Dark Side of the Gym
A great place for putting things that you don't want other people to see.
12. Sleep Well Beast
By the end of the album, I'm pretty much fast asleep dreaming about a beautiful world with no bedbugs. When I wake up, I'm well-rested, the birds are singing, the house is quiet, and the world just seems a little bit better than it was the night before.
