I’m totally grooving on a track from the band Wintersleep, the song called “Weighty Ghost” off of their 2007 disc Welcome to the Night Sky.
The song’s available for download on the wonderful Songs: Illinois blog, and you can find the post at this link right here. Also, you can listen to some other tracks on their website or on their myspace page.
I don’t know much about this band, but I discovered them last week thanks to that Songs:Illinois blog (along with a bunch of other great bands that I’ll mention at a later date), and I’ve been listening to the song every day. Sometimes more than once.
A quick look at their reveals that they’re from Halifax, Nova Scotia, that this is their third album, and that they’re about to tour Europe.
Here’s the video for “Weighty Ghost,” via YouTube:
Land of Talk does a nice cover of Weighty Ghost, it’s streaming on their MySpace =) Welcome to the Night Sky is such a great album!
In the first moments of hearing this song I thought it was Ron Sexsmith.Do you hear that in the voice,too? A similar timbre?
Great song. I love it when the lyrics are unusual and keep your ears alert.