Sterile Cuckoo Evokes a Waking Dream State With “Details in Feathers”

SterileCuckoo1_crop — Sterile Cuckoo, photo courtesy the artist

Sterile Cuckoo’s music is designed to be the soundtrack for the hypnagogic state, that state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. The hazy composition of “Details in Feathers” with lightly echoing sounds seeming to drift down upon one another in a flow of organic melody. Even the vocals sound like bits of consciousness caught in the fractal of long term memory given voice and swirling with the other leaves, the other motes, of sonic presence that gently synergize with the spare guitar melody as the through line, accented by electronic bass and luminous, impressionistic keyboard work. Though short, the song is something that your head can get lost in taking in the dream logic of its flow of tone and mood. Listen to “Details in Feathers” on YouTube, follow Sterile Cuckoo at the links provided and, should you be so inclined, listen to the rest of the album Elysian on Bandcamp.