For Sam Kogon‘s latest 2-track EP the dream pop crooner, and lead singer for The Vanderbilts, paints a lush soundscape that negotiates some of the benefits and consequences of sleeping too much. Opener ‘Wake Up Your Kids’ pleads for you to spend as much time with your children as possible (even if that means they get no sleep), while ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is a wandering ode to the possibilities of love spent unconsciously. Check it out below and see him when he plays with a full band this Sunday at Silent Barn with Montreal pop band Sheer Agony (Feb 9). – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)