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Album: Welcome To The Night Sky

Sounds Like: The space between how things are and how they should be.

Sorry I’m late to the party guys, I just found out about this brilliant group from Halifax. Wintersleep released their third album, Welcome To the Night Sky, in October of last year and I must say it is one of the best albums I’ve heard in several months. I was unassumingly looking for new bands when “Weighty Ghost” started to play. Ten seconds into it I thought “this is a great opener,” by the time Paul Murphy’s vocals had piped in I thought “this track is incredibly well grounded in it’s writing,” and by the time the chorus was asking “have you seen my ghost?” it was clear that I was listening to one of the greatest songs of 2007. Needless to say, I promptly bought the album and scrutinized the rest of the songs. There are ten tracks; each is unique, most are memorable, and a few are what I consider instant classics. My only complaint about the LP is that on a few tracks I couldn’t make out the lyrics and wished the vocals had been boosted slightly. It’s hard to describe exactly what makes Welcome To the Night Sky so good because it is a disc that has the ability to evoke unique emotions even after repeat plays. What I liked most about it is that the album feels effortless; although not every track is as superb as “Weighty Ghost,” none of the songs make me feel as if the band was trying to create something that makes everyone say “look at how great we are.” Ironically enough, they made an album that you can’t help but take notice of.

Why They Don’t Suck: Like an anthem for those feeling displaced and discontent, Welcome To the Night Sky voices the questions and cries of this modern generation so eloquently that it feels as if Wintersleep is trying to speaking for you and you’ve been invited to sing along.

Weighty Ghost.mp3 (right click to save)
(Thanks Janesta for letting us share the song.)

Wintersleep’s Website

Author: Ryan Shook
Date: January 30, 2008