January 28, 2024

Episode 107 – The Saturnine Sleep: Tiamat’s A Deeper Kind of Slumber

1 hour 22 minutes

For a podcast that traffics in all things wild and mind-expanding, the subject of our 107th episode makes everything else feel stone-cold sober by comparison. The fifth album by Sweden's Tiamat, A Deeper Kind of Slumber, luxuriates in the wan, reclined possibilities of Leary biscuits and Psilocybin dreams. This episode paddles along the hallucinatory waters of Tiamat's final masterpiece and resolves itself to the album's irreconcilable mysteries.

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Music cited in order of appearance:

Intro: “The Ar” (Wildhoney, 1994)

“The Southernmost Voyage” (The Astral Sleep, 1991)

“A Caress of Stars” (Clouds, 1992)

“Do You Dream of Me?” (Wildhoney, 1994)

“Cold Seed” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Teonanacatl” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Trillion Zillion Centipedes” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

‘The Desolate One” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Atlantis as a Lover” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Alteration X 10” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Four Leary Biscuits” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Only In My Tears It Lasts” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“The Whores of Babylon” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Kite” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Phantasma De Luxe” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“Mount Marilyn” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

“A Deeper Kind of Slumber” (A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997)

Radical Research is a conversation about the inner- and outer-reaches of rock and metal music. This podcast is conceived and conducted by Jeff Wagner and Hunter Ginn. Though we consume music in a variety of ways, we give particular privilege to the immersive, full-album listening experience. Likewise, we believe that tangible music formats help provide the richest, most rewarding immersions and that music, artwork, and song titles cooperate to produce a singular effect on the listener. Great music is worth more than we ever pay for it.

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