With the release of their brand new album, NEW INHERITORS, Wintersleep are very excited to hit the road and introduce fans to their new collection of songs. Praised as their “best release and playing to all of the band’s considerable strengths” No Depression raves “strong songs, great playing, daring arrangements, and impassioned singing throughout make this an indispensible album.” Beginning this Friday, June 4th in Philadelphia, PA, the Halifax rockers will join Matt Pond PA for a 4-week North American tour. In addition, the band will perform with The Hold Steady in Philadelphia on October 5th and at The Beacon Theatre in NYC on October 7th. NEW INHERITORS is now available at your local retailer and on iTunes.

The follow up to the critically acclaimed album, WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY, which saw the band win a Juno Award for “Best New Band,” NEW INHERITORS is an intoxicatingly beautiful album full of meticulously-crafted rock songs that may be some of the most expansive and dynamic rock music you’ll hear this year. Canada’s Globe and Mail raves “Grand, dramatic tension comes from the Halifax rockers who pair Verve-like strings and staccato guitar riffs with words about an all-consuming condition. This thing hits like a heart attack on heroin” while One Mind Track goes on to say, “it’s easy to see why so many people fell in love with the band and why so many more will this time around.” London Tour Dates declares “Wintersleep have delivered one of the most fearless rock albums of the year.”

Check out a very cool acoustic performance of new song “Preservation” and the official video for “Black Camera” at www.wintersleep.com

TOUR DATES:

With Matt Pond PA

June 4 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA /> June 5 Great Scott Allston, MA /> June 6 Iron Horse Northampton, MA /> June 8 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL /> June 9 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN /> June 12 High Dive Seattle, WA /> June 13 Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR /> June 15 The Independent San Francisco, CA /> June 16 Detroit Bar Costa Mesa, CA /> June 17 Troubadour Los Angeles, CA /> June 18 Sail Inn Tempe, AZ /> June 19 Corazon Santa Fe, NM /> June 21 Mohawk Austin, TX /> June 23 Bottle Tree Birmingham, AL /> June 24 Earl Atlanta, GA /> June 25 Soapbox Laundrolounge Wilmington, NC /> June 26 The 9:30 Club Washington, DC /> June 27 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY

With The Hold Steady

October 5th The Trocadero Philadelphia, PA /> October 7th The Beacon Theatre New York, NY

FIRST TRACK NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AND POSTING /> “I Can’t Feel” mp3 FREE at Matthewdear.com with email sign up

Black City arrives on Ghostly International on August 17th in North America and August 16th worldwide. Now is Matthew Dear’s moment, and it sounds like nothing else. You can grab the first MP3 from the album if you sign up at Matthewdear.com

Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dance floor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes commissioned by the XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers; he’s made mixes for the Fabric mix series and Get Physical’s Body Language. He maintains four aliases (Audion, False, Jabberjaw, and Matthew Dear), each with its own style and distinct visual identity. His highly anticipated third album, 2010’s Black City – follow up to 2007’s critically acclaimed Asa Breed – is the culmination of years of hard work and experimentation, a darkly playful sound-world that envelops the listener like the arms of a malevolent lover.

Matthew Dear’s Black City can’t be found on any map. It’s a composite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives. Like most literary Gothams, Black City is a place to love and hate, as seedy and seductive as a nightclub’s back room. Matthew Dear, the musician, may live in New York City, but the Matthew Dear of Black City inhabits a sound-world unlike any other: a monument to the shadowy side of urban life that bumps and creaks, shudders and wakes up screaming in the middle of the night. Black City is Matthew Dear’s darkest and most engrossing work to date.

As well as the usual formats, Black City will also be released in a limited edition design package made by an award winning design firm, Boym, who won the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s National Design Award in 2009

CD & LP Tracklist /> Honey /> I Can’t Feel /> Little People (Black City) /> Slowdance /> Soil To Seed /> You Put A Smell On Me /> Shortwave /> Monkey /> More Sugery /> Gem