Wintersleep
Wintersleep announces The Great Detachment
After much anticipation, Wintersleep has debuted their new single “Amerika” today via The Wall Street Journal. Click here to listen! The track is the first off of their new album The Great Detachment, which will be released on March 4, 2016. The song will be available as an instant grat on the album pre-order beginning on January 15.
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.”
The Great Detachment track listing:
- Amerika
- Santa Fe
- Lifting Cure
- More Than
- Shadowless
- Metropolis
- Spirit
- Freak Out
- Love Lies
- Territory
- Who Are You
