Cepheide "respire"

I've been having a hard time falling asleep lately.  This political climate has me all wound up in knots. I am dog tired but when I lay down my mind races with apocalyptic fear.  To distract myself I listen to music wearing headphones and wait for slumber to wrestle me down.   Lately my lullaby has been atmospheric black metal.  It's one of those lifelong anomalies.  I always fall asleep to blistering music.  Many of my past roommates have laughed at my choices of bedtime playlists.  The steady fast chugging of death metal riffs have always been a favorite of mine, the blurry rhythms relax me.  Familiar '80s hardcore does by he trick too.  If I'm anxious when I lay down the familiarity of that stuff will knock me out. Lately the stuff to do the trick is atmospheric black metal.  I suspect I find this grim brand of psychedelic music a fitting end times lullaby due to it's wall of droning staccato guitars and buried howls as soundtrack to my inner turmoil. Angst made darkly sonic.  This #cepheide album "respire" fits that bill to a tee.  Long passages of churning guitars broken up by half time drums and atonal howls buried in the mix that sound like a lost soul struggling to break into our Astral plane. The stuff is epic. I drift along the long songs eventually listening in a half awake dream state and when I realise that experience is happening I half try to sustain it, to keep the trance going.  Eventually I lose the battle and pass into unconciousness.  At some point later in the night I partially rouse to rip the headphones off my head and return to the needed slumber.  Thankful for the reprieve this french duo have afforded my senses.