Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Gatefold, Repress, Reissue
- Description
- Tracklist
This 2019 reissue comes in a gatefold sleeve with nicely printed inner sleeve. Highly regarded pressing.
On Sleeping With Ghosts, Placebo trade distortion for atmosphere, revealing a more vulnerable and expansive version of themselves. The band’s fourth studio album is full of slow burns, electronic textures, and emotional unraveling—less glam snarl, more bruised reflection.
Themes of memory, trauma, and complicated love permeate every track, framed by Brian Molko’s signature vocal ache. From the propulsive ache of “The Bitter End” to the icy calm of “Special Needs,” this is Placebo at their most emotionally exposed.
Standout Tracks
“The Bitter End”
“Special Needs”
“This Picture”
“Protect Me From What I Want”
For Fans Of
The Cure (later era), Muse (before they went to space), dark alt-rock with a synthetic pulse
Mood
Reflective. Slow-burning. Beautifully wrecked.