Doc Sleep returns to Dark Entries with Cloud Sight Fade, an album of ethereal house and techno. Doc Sleep is the alias of DJ and producer Melissa Maristuen. Following 2023's Birds, her ambient and IDM-leaning debut album, Cloud Sight Fade shows Doc drawing on her years of queer clubbing to bring seven diverse tracks sitting between muscular New York house, Berlin twilight techno, and funky West-coast breakbeats. Production began in the Bay Area and was completed in Berlin; Maristuen says that this work became a love letter to the West Coast's magnificent natural landscape, the light of the Pacific sunrise. While draped in dreamlike textures and melodies, this is also a record about embodiment and the memories that live within corporeal forms. The powerful grooves on the breakbeat-inflected 'Lemon Zest' and the propulsive 'Cloud Sight Fade' remind listeners that dance music is for bodies dancing. Meanwhile, tracks like the sparkling album-closer 'Enchanted Static' or the brooding groover 'Water Sign' plunge listeners deeper into hypnotic depths. On Cloud Sight Fade, Doc Sleep guides through slumber and wakefulness, in and out of bodies, with the mastery of a seasoned DJ and clubgoer.
| A1 | Professor Eucalyptus |
| A2 | Lemon Zest |
| A3 | Palm Reader |
| A4 | C. Echo Azure |
| B1 | Water Sign |
| B2 | Cloud Sight Fade |
| B3 | Enchanted Static |
