Q&A with The Sleeping Cliffs – ( Indie Electronica / Pop )

In the first of our new Interview series, I talk to Todd Glidewell of The Sleeping Cliffs about his music, promo, social media, and his goals.

Quote – “I want to say this just before I say my other piece, like I get it. This it feels like screaming into the void sometimes. Yeah, I get that! ”

Hi guys, welcome to this new series of Q&A’s with new artists. In this first episode we’re going to be talking to The Sleeping Cliffs.

Extract Below –

NMR – Tell us who you are, what you’re all about, what sort of music you do.

TG – Awesome, yeah, my name is Todd Glidewell. I am here representing my solo project The Sleeping Cliffs, something I’ve been doing for two and a half years now.

I have a new EP coming out starting this month. I’m going to be releasing two singles and then the full EP in November, and that’ll be my fourth. So two full albums and two full EPs coming out here soon.

So I have described it as analog electro-acoustic rock. I have post-rock influenced indie-tronica. The basic gist of it though is it’s very guitar, drum and bass heavy, so like all the instruments of a rock band, but I use a lot of synthesizers and I weave in a lot of electronic elements.

I won’t even call them EDM elements because in a lot of cases I’m just using like vintage synths and things like that. But I am not trying to create something that I could play live. I am creating whatever you want to create.

I’m creating anything that’s in my brain, so that’s the other like electronic piece of it, is that yeah, even though I’m using a real guitar, real bass and real drums, sometimes the end effect that ends up on the album is sometimes, I don’t know, hyper-experimental sometimes.

NMR – Is it full-time for you or do you do a day job?

TG – Day job, definitely day job. This is nice though, this is by far the most money and the most fans I’ve ever made as a musician.

Amidst the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, The Sleeping Cliffs unleash powerful soundscapes with amplifier feedback and pulsing bass drums. The music is a layered mosaic of fuzz drenched guitars, bombastic percussion, and vintage synths, melodically engineered as a turbine of soulful, rhythmic, electro-rock.

Todd Glidewell, the multi-instrumentalist behind the project, describes himself as “genre-fluid”, drawing from rock, indietronica, funk, soul, psychedelia, post-rock, and alternative. Wearing those diverse influences like a technicolor cape, his tracks consistently showcase a distinctive analog/electronic groove that defines The Sleeping Cliffs’ signature sound.