Wintersleep are well underway with the recording process for their next album and are planning a tentative May release date for it. More word on that and related side projects can be found below:
“We’ve just finished up our 2 and half month, 50 shows and some change run in the UK and Europe with our friends the Editors. Aside from having an amazing time we got really good at ping pong, learned how to make the queen smile, and best of all, got to play in some new countries we had never had the chance to before. Poland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic… welcome aboard! Much thanks again to Editors and crew for a fantastic trip as well as the wonderful Maccabees who were on the European portion with us!
We are currently held up in Glasgow at the new Castle of Doom studio location. Vocals and guitars are getting finished up this week! After the holiday break we will track for a couple days starting on the 8th of January and start mixing right after that, finishing up on the 22nd of January.
We are gathering artwork ideas with a certain person we have been fans of for a while now. Very excited to see it all come together. We are even at the point of playing around with a few working titles for the new album. Still just thinking though really so our lips are still sealed in that department. We are almost ready to say “It’s ALIVE!” in that Dr. Frankenstein sort of way. A tentative release in May of 2010. Hurray!
The Postdata record will be available for order in January from the newly launched website www.postdatamusic.com. Postdata is comprised of Wintersleep member Paul and his brother Michael Murphy. Postdata also has tour dates in Europe to boot in the near future with David Bazan.
It has been another whirlwind year for us and we are so excited to start the next one. From all of us here at the Wintersleep camp we wish you a very merry holiday season. Please be safe and we can’t wait to see you in the new year.”