Welcome to the Night Sky

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Welcome to the Night Sky
Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by Wintersleep
Released October 2, 2007
Recorded April–May 2007
Genre Indie rock
Length41:43 (special edition 49:49)
Label Labwork
Producer Tony Doogan
Wintersleep chronology
untitled
(2005)		Welcome to the Night Sky
(2007)		 New Inheritors
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
BBC Music (unfavorable) [1]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [2]
Pitchfork Media (7.0/10) [3]
Rock Sound (8/10) [4]

Welcome to the Night Sky is the third album by Canadian indie rock band Wintersleep. It was released October 2, 2007, by Labwork Music. In 2008, just after the album's release, Wintersleep won the Juno Award for New Group of the Year.

Wintersleep is a Canadian indie rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The band received a Juno Award in 2008. In 2016 the members of Wintersleep are Paul Murphy, Loel Campbell, and Tim D'Eon.

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies.

Contents

The album was produced by Tony Doogan, famous for his work with Mogwai and Belle and Sebastian, among others.

Tony Doogan is a Scottish record producer who runs Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow. He is perhaps best known for his work with Mogwai and Belle & Sebastian. He has also worked with numerous other artists, including Teenage Fanclub, the Delgados, Wintersleep, Els Amics de les Arts, Hefner,, Oohyo and the Young Knives on their album Superabundance. He began working on sound recordings when he was 14, helping the PA guy at his local church with the amateur shows being performed there. He has also collaborated with producer Dave Fridmann, whom he originally met when working on the Delgados' album The Great Eastern, on Wintersleep's album Hello Hum.

Mogwai Scottish post-rock band

Mogwai are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite, Barry Burns, Dominic Aitchison, and Martin Bulloch (drums). The band typically compose lengthy guitar-based instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, melodic bass guitar lines, and heavy use of distortion and effects.

Belle and Sebastian Scottish band

Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in January 1996. Led by Stuart Murdoch, the band has released nine albums. Much of their work had been released on Jeepster Records, but they are now signed to Rough Trade Records in the United Kingdom and Matador Records in the United States.

Track listing

All songs were written by Wintersleep.

No.TitleLength
1."Drunk on Aluminium"4:02
2."Archaeologists"3:37
3."Dead Letter & the Infinite Yes"4:08
4."Weighty Ghost"3:39
5."Murderer"4:23
6."Search Party"4:12
7."Astronaut"2:18
8."Oblivion"2:58
9."Laser Beams"4:17
10."Miasmal Smoke & the Yellow Bellied Freaks"8:09

Special edition bonus tracks

  1. "The Kids are Ultra-Violent" – 3:33
  2. "Early in the Morning" – 4:30

Wintersleep.com MP3 download bonus tracks

  1. "The Kids are Ultra-Violent" – 3:33
  2. "Oblivion (Acoustic Live at SXSW 2008)" - 2:57
  3. "Weighty Ghost (Acoustic Live at SXSW 2008)" - 3:04
  4. "Nerves Normal, Breath Normal (Live at Summersonic)" - 14:00

Credits

Reception

"Weighty Ghost" and "Oblivion" both received extensive airplay on Canadian modern rock radio. The song "Weighty Ghost" was the opening theme of the Canadian TV show Cracked and was also featured in the show Being Human. Wintersleep also performed "Weighty Ghost" on The Late Show with David Letterman.

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Being Human is a Canadian supernatural horror comedy-drama television series, based on the BBC series of the same name. It followed the same premise as the original, and starred Sam Huntington, Sam Witwer and Meaghan Rath as a werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost, respectively, who live together as roommates.

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References

  1. ↑ White, Chris (January 29, 2009). "Review of Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky". BBC . Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ Tudor, Alexander (January 20, 2009). "Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ Clarke, Mia (December 3, 2008). "Wintersleep: Welcome to the Night Sky". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  4. ↑ Phull, Hardeep (February 3, 2009). "Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky". Rock Sound . Retrieved November 13, 2011.
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