Night Beds – Country Sleep (2013)

Welcome to the sound of Winston Yellen and Night Beds, who in one stunning ten-track debut album Country Sleep, have shown that there is plenty of life left in the world of American music if you have the voice, the songs and the gift to touch hearts and souls. Think of a space between Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon), Gram Parsons and the dreamier side of My Morning Jacket; a heavenly place of pure country soul, touched by an endearing innocence and honesty that can only come from someone still in their early twenties


From Colorado Springs, and now a resident of Nashville where he first moved to study, Yellen's road to Country Sleep has been anything but the straightest and easiest. In 2006, he formed Night Beds and self-released three rudimentary EPs between 2008 and 2011.
Night Beds was conceived in a place that is usually just the domain of dreams. As Winston Yellen explains, "the name is tongue in cheek, but a lot of the music was developed at night, from listening to, or writing in my bed." And it feels very nocturnal. Night Beds is a landscape, or an ethereal escape for the soul.