# Sleepwalker: The Kinks' Hidden Gem

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Podcast: [Crossed Channels with Tony Fletcher and Dan Epstein](https://stenobird.com/podcast/crossed-channels-with-tony-fletcher-and-dan-epstein-6711463)
Published: 2025-01-16T11:15:49+00:00
Episode link: https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/p/sleepwalker-the-kinks-hidden-gem
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Duration seconds: 820

## Resource

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit tonyfletcher.substack.com Welcome to the first 2025 episode (and 13th episode overall) of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast — a.k.a. the podcast in which music journalists/obsessives Dan Epstein (the Yank) and Tony Fletcher (the Brit) clash and connect over music from either side of the pond. And this time out, our subject is one of the great British bands of all time: The Kinks! Rather than talk about one of the band’s widely acknowledged classics like 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society or 1969’s Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) , we’re discussing a Kinks album that’s largely underappreciated: 1977’s Sleepwalker .

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