Brian Batz in a Rabbit Mask, Breaking Your Heart

Sleep Party People is a Danish project that insists on performing in rabbit masks, which sounds like an affectation until you actually hear what Brian Batz does underneath them. A Dark God Heart, the debut album, is built from smeared reverb and bedroom-pop fragility—lullabies for people who’ve given up on sleep. It’s the kind of record you put on at two in the morning not because you’re sad but because it understands the particular texture of being awake when you shouldn’t be. The masks make sense after a while. Some music is too delicate to deliver with a human face.