Sleepers Club: Shoegaze Sun for Nothing Feels Right
Nothing Feels Right, the debut record from Atlanta duo Sleepers Club, comes out November 20, and it has been five years in the making in the most literal sense. Sydney Ward and Damon Moon wrote and recorded these ten songs in the spring of 2020, then shelved them on a hard drive and went back to their lives. The record sat there until the same uneasy energy that made it started humming again, and the duo decided it was time to let the songs out.
That backstory is baked into the sound. Ward calls Sleepers Club "dreamy sleezepop," and the label fits. Guitars undulate in a warm haze, Ward's voice carries the same sun-drenched shimmer she brought to Sydney Eloise and the Palms, and underneath it all sits an autumn melancholy that keeps the brightness from turning breezy. Moon, who also records as Bathe Alone and produces for Lunar Vacation, produced, engineered, and mixed the record at Standard Electric Recorders Co., with mastering by Greg Hendler at Meadowlark Audioworks. The two have been creating music together for over a decade, and the cohesion shows.
Seven of the record's ten songs have already trickled out as singles over the past year, which makes the album feel less like a debut than a reunion with songs that have been quietly circulating. The title track leads the way. Released in August 2025, "Nothing Feels Right" is about the quiet grief of a friendship dissolving, the slow realization that a whole chapter with a friend group has closed. "Were we really ever connecting well?" Ward asks in one line, and the question hangs over the whole record.
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The full tracklist runs "Alone," "Freakin Out," "Island," "Done Sailing," "Ya Dunno," "Nothing Feels Right," "Mirror Mirror," "Capricorn Moon," "Poolside," and "Fear Tower." The three songs that have not appeared as singles yet, "Alone," "Capricorn Moon," and "Poolside," are the ones to watch when the record lands. Pre-orders are open on Bandcamp, including a limited edition blue vinyl LP run of 200 copies, and the duo celebrate with a record release show on November 19 at The Supermarket in Atlanta.
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- "Nothing Feels Right," the title track and the emotional center of the record.
- "Fear Tower," the most recent single, and the darkest corner of the set.
- "Mirror Mirror," the August single, all shimmer and unease in equal measure.