Sleep to Grow

Sleep to Grow EP
EP by The Belle Game
Released October 1, 2011
Genre Indie, pop, rock
Producer David Carswell and John Collins
The Belle Game chronology
Inventing Letters EP
(2009)		 Sleep to Grow EP
(2011)		 Ritual Tradition Habit
(2013)

The Sleep to Grow EP is the second release by Vancouver, British Columbia band The Belle Game, produced by David Carswell (Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers) and John Collins (The New Pornographers). It was released digitally on October 1, 2011. Physical copies were made available later the same month.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Sleep to Grow"   3:57
2. "I Wish You Weren't Like A Dead Lover (Sometimes)"   3:05
3. "Bloom"   3:47
4. "Pink Carnations"   4:03
5. "Wool Pt. II"   2:31

Reception

Similar to their previous EP, Sleep to Grow received positive reviews soon after it was released, especially from blogs.[1][2][3] In the spring of 2012, the Vancouver radio station known as the Peak 100.5 FM put the title track of the EP into heavy rotation. Both "Sleep to Grow" as well as the fourth track, "Pink Carnations" have been heard in light rotation on CBC Radio 3.

In April 2011, The Belle Game entered the first single of the EP, "Sleep to Grow" into a radio competition held by the Peak 100.5 FM known as the Peak Performance Project, and the band subsequently made it into the top 20 artists chosen.[4] Though the band did not make the top 5 in the contest, the Peak continues to play The Belle Game's music, and the contest has propelled them into a climb in rotation on CBC Radio 3.

Sleep to Grow even earned the band a spot in the Georgia Straight's list of the "Best Bands of Vancouver"[5] as well as the opening spot for Australia's hit-band Gotye's show at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on April 8, 2012.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Belle Game continues to evolve on Sleep to Grow". Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  2. ↑ "The Belle Game - Sleep to Grow". Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  3. ↑ "The Belle Game". Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  4. ↑ "Belle Game PPP Contest Alumni Page". 100.5 The Peak FM. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Busting out of the music wasteland: The Belle Game". Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Gotye with special guest The Belle Game". Retrieved 2012-04-05.


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