Sitting in his bedroom in Copenhagen one evening in 2008, arched over a shivering piano in the twilit cool, Brian Batz found himself measuring out sounds in cascading waves. Centuries earlier, beloved avant-garde composer Erik Satie declined the term musician, instead declaring himself a phonometrician-someone who measures sounds. The aching and otherworldly "Third Drawer Down"-the product of Batz's 2 a.m. chording-reflects an ecstatic phonometric approach for his first album under the moniker Sleep Party People. Full of arcane arrangements, broken and secondhand instruments, and manipulated vocals, the self-titled record has redoubled in mystic strength on the verge of it's 10-year anniversary reissue, due TK via TK

• 1 In the Morning Sun We Stand
• 2 Our Falling Snow
• 3 10 Feet Up
• 4 Notes to You
• 5 An Iris Pseudacorus
• 6 The Dwarf and the Horse
• 7 A Sweet Song About Love
• 8 Third Drawer Down
• 9 I'm Not Human at All
• 10 Everything Has An End