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Sleep Token ‘Even in Arcadia’: All 10 Songs Ranked

Billboard ranks all the songs on Sleep Token's new album 'Even in Arcadia.'

While any sort of genre hopping usually makes metal heads recoil, Sleep Token has accrued its own gravitational pull, collecting fans who both worship heavy giants like Knocked Loose and Lorna Shore but know how to catch a vibe to Bad Bunny and Drake. While “Past Life” works on its face as a groovy pop track, the issue is that it feels incredibly boilerplate for a Sleep Token song: The band has always known how to fill its space, utilizing multiple genres into lengthy anthems that toss the listener around like a rag doll (“Take Me Back to Eden,” “Ascensionism”). So when Vessel cries out: “I wanna do more than just bend the rules/ ‘Cause you been hittin’ my phone so hard,” it feels weird to picture the singer — clad in black body paint, shimmering armor, a sword and his white bedazzled mask — doing something as mortal as answering a late-night booty call.

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