The Sleeping- New album out this Friday

The Sleeping - Douglas Robinson (vocals), Joe Zizzo (drums), Sal Mignano (bass), and Cameron Keym (guitar/keys) - will return with their first album in thirteen years, I Feel Like I’m Becoming A Ghost, on August 18th. Taking their post-hardcore and alternative roots and blending it with a post-punk influence, the band has created a dynamic and emotive ten tracks.

The Sleeping first broke out in 2003, and led an impactful career releasing four albums and touring with fellow Long Island, NY acts like Taking Back Sunday and Bayside. The band frequently had their music featured in video game soundtracks like Guitar Hero, Madden, and FIFA, as well as on television shows, including performing on an episode of MTV’s My Super Sweet 16. Fast forward to today and the band are feeling as vigorous and creative as ever. Preparing for the release of their fifth album, the band wanted to turn it back to the fans and launched a Kickstarter to self-release the record. The response was incredible, hitting their goal in just ten days and seeing an outpouring of support from fans and friends across the globe

Heading into writing I Feel Like I’m Becoming a Ghost, The Sleeping’s only goal was to make a high energy, refreshing record based off the natural chemistry of the band. Marking their fifth album (following 2010’s The Big Deep) and first with Keym since the 2006 record Questions and Answers, it was important for the band, take the sound they were known for and build it into something new. Venturing into Applehead Studios in Woodstock, NY, it only took them two weeks to write and record the ten songs that appear on the record. You’ll hear tracks ranging from straight up alternative rock to post-punk inspired to seething post-hardcore, and some combination of all three. The album strongly focuses on mental health, while sonically gliding through melody, chaos, grooves and energetic parts to fit the theme of the lyrics. I Feel Like I’m Becoming a Ghost was produced by the band alongside the dynamic duo Mike Birnbaum and Chris Bittner (Coheed & Cambria, Medeski, Team Sleep) and mastered by Chris Athens (Beastie Boys, Blink 182).

I Feel Like I’m Becoming a Ghost Tracklist:

1. Redder Than Red

2. Tainted [watch]

3. The Animal

4. Halcyon

5. OCD

6. Trend Meds

7. No Shadow In The Sun

8. No Light [watch]

9. Leo

10. Paranormal Hologram

11. I Feel Like I’m Becoming a Ghost