Mismatch in the Night

“Once we slept in circles — now silence divides us all.”

A slow-burning descent into the evolutionary cost of modern sleep, Mismatch in the Night channels the research of Dr. David Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and sleep scientist at the University of Toronto.
The track explores how humanity’s ancient rhythms — tribal rest, shared vigilance, firelight safety — clash with the isolating glow of our artificial age.

Built on polymetric riffs, whispered layers, and Tool-style dynamics, it merges progressive metal and dark atmospheric rock into an existential meditation on insomnia, anxiety, and disconnection.
Each lyric echoes the tension between our ancestral biology and our technological reality — a “circadian fracture” rendered in sound.

🧬 Concept: The evolutionary mismatch between modern sleep and ancestral rhythm.
🎧 Genre: Progressive Metal • Experimental Rock • Dark Atmospheric
🎙️ Artist: Redneck Infidel
🌙 Mood: Brooding • Hypnotic • Philosophical • Tribal
🧠 Inspiration: Dr. David Samson — Sleep, Evolution & Human Cognition

🔥 Part IV of the “Tribal Cognition Cycle” with “Fractals of the Tribe,” “Sentinel Dream,” and “Dream Scaffold.”