Inspired & The Sleep are a Los Angeles-via-San Diego based duo, consisting of songwriter/producer Max Greenhalgh and multi-instrumentalist Bryce Outcault. They came on my radar last year, with their aptly titled single First Time. However, by then they were already making music for four years. During these years, they perfected the art of making radio-friendly dream pop. You could have guessed from the band name 😉 .

Getting Through is Inspired & The Sleep’s fourth single of 2019, and likely to become their most successful yet. It’s a well-crafted pop song, built around danceable piano chords and a strumming bassline. If you wouldn’t listen to the lyrics, you might think it’s a happy song. But in reality, Greenhalgh says, “Getting Through describes the desire/hopes to overcome emotional blocks and walls towards the ones closest to you.”

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.