Breaking with past traditions of leaving albums unnamed, Halifax indie-rock bookworms Wintersleep returned in Oct. 2007 with their third full-length Weclome To The Night Sky. Recorded close to home at Halifax's Sonic Temple by producer Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Super Furry Animals), Welcome earned the band a Juno award, radio and video play for the single "Weighty Ghost", and it was picked up for release in the US, Europe and Japan. As a result, the staggered release of the album kept the band on the road for the better part of 2 and a half years. In those years, the three original founding members Paul Murphy (Vocals, guitar), Loel Campbell (drums) and Tim D'Eon (guitar, bg vox) spent more days together in a moving vessel than they had in all the days since the release of the first album in 2003. It's no wonder then, that the songs for the band's May 2010 follow up, New Inheritors was born on the road. "We were touring constantly, so I guess we jammed ideas fo! r this record pretty much everywhere. We have folders with different jams marked down by the cities they were worked on in... LA, Seattle, Milan, Belfast, in Japan, Stellarton Cottage, Hamilton, ON... we sorted it out whenever we had time. It came together in Montreal eventually, but yeah, these songs have touring legs." While touring the new album, Wintersleep performed shows with The Hold Steady in the UK and America, traveled throughout Canada, and made an appearance on The Late Show with David ...
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