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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

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An experimental, avant‑garde music group from Oakland, California, centered on former Idiot Flesh members Nils Frykdahl and Dan Rathbun and featuring Carla Kihlstedt; noted for theatrical performances and unconventional instruments.

Reviews and public sources note: formation in Oakland; key members include Nils Frykdahl, Dan Rathbun and Carla Kihlstedt; associations to Idiot Flesh and Charming Hostess are documented; the band is known for theatrical live shows and for using self-made instruments.

DeBaser reviewers praise Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's intense, genre-defying avant‑garde work. Albums are described as theatrical, dissonant, eclectic and unsettling. Strong recommendations appear for In Glorious Times? and Grand Opening and Closing.

For:Listeners of experimental/avant‑garde rock, fans of theatrical live shows and genre‑bending music.

 Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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 Forget about this album if you are proud to be human.

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 A surreal and dreamlike atmosphere prevails throughout the work, touching a wide range of sensations: it goes from more violent and frantic episodes ("Sleep is wrong", "1997"), to calmer ones with melancholic and twilight features ("Ablutions", "The Stain").

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