New Inheritors

New Inheritors
Studio album by Wintersleep
Released May 17, 2010
Recorded September 2009 – February 2010
Genre Indie rock
Label The Tom Kotter Company
Producer Tony Doogan
Wintersleep chronology
Welcome to the Night Sky
(2007)
New Inheritors
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Sputnikmusic (4/5) [1]
Rock Sound (7/10) [2]
God Is In The TV (6/10) [3]
PopMatters (8/10) [4]

New Inheritors is the fourth album by Canadian indie rock band Wintersleep, released on May 17, 2010 in Europe, and in North America on May 18.[5]

The band began working on the album on September 2009. The mixing process finished as of January 2010, and the masters were done by February.

Several songs that are featured on the album have been played live throughout 2009 and 2010, including "Encyclopedia", "Baltic", "Black Camera", "Experience the Jewel", and "Blood Collection".

The song "Black Camera" was made available for streaming, while the title track, "New Inheritors", was released as a free download in March 2010. On May 3, 2010, all the tracks for New Inheritors began being streamed on the Wintersleep website.

Title is taken from a short story by Nathanial Hawthorne called "The New Adam & Eve".

Track listing

  1. "Experience the Jewel" – 4:37
  2. "Encyclopedia" – 4:48
  3. "Blood Collection" – 5:01
  4. "New Inheritors" – 4:29
  5. "Black Camera" – 4:27
  6. "Trace Decay" – 4:59
  7. "Mausoleum" – 6:21
  8. "Echolocation" – 4:01
  9. "Terrible Man" – 4:37
  10. "Preservation" – 4:38
  11. "Mirror Matter" – 4:09
  12. "Baltic" – 5:18

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