Wintersleep
Pre-order Wintersleep’s The Great Detachment now!
The Great Detachment — the new record from beloved Halifax indie rock group Wintersleep, is now available for pre-order. The album is set for release on March 4, 2016. Pre-order now on iTunes and receive lead single “Amerika” as an instant grat. Physical products, including limited edition vinyl, cassettes and CD’s are also available for pre-order on our webstore.
Two years in the making, the album marks a return to the organic approach of the band’s earlier works that simultaneously sees them reaching new pinnacles of songwriting and production. The 11-song collection was recorded at Halifax’s Sonic Temple (the birthplace of Welcome To The Night Sky and its preceding 2003 self-titled and 2005 untitled efforts) with producer Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai).
The band recorded the majority of The Great Detachment live-off-the-floor, adding an organic and transparent aural aesthetic to the collection. The album is very much an introspective work, both conceptually and thematically. It delivers a welcome dose of the atmospheric, entrancing alt-rock for which the band has become known, with beautifully orchestrated arrangements anchored by haunting, almost hypnotic vocal melodies. “It’s a very different energy,” vocalist/guitarist Paul Murphy opines, “and one that we kind of missed.”
TRACKLISTING
- Amerika
- Santa Fe
- Lifting Cure
- More Than
- Shadowless
- Metropolis
- Spirit
- Freak Out
- Love Lies
- Territory
- Who Are You