Indie rockers Asleep are set to drop their new album Unpleasant Companion on February 7, 2012, and in advance of its release they’ve unleashed the single “Hip to Deaf” exclusively on GuitarWorld.com. Per the press release, Unpleasant Companion was recorded over four days to “capture a live dynamic onto 16-track 2-inch analog tape.”
“The album’s central theme explores how we manage to stay so addictively connected yet simplistically separated from one another through the same digital loops in the current fabric of the information age,” states Asleep.
Listen to the track at Guitar World.
More on Asleep [Courtesy of Big Picture Media]:
Consisting of Todd Kaden (vocals/guitar), Jon Dean (guitar), Cory Snyder (bass/vocals), and Shawn Logan (drums/percussion), Asleep is a rock band with an experimental focus. They write pop songs that reflect a rusty optimism prevalent throughout their northeast Ohio surroundings. Their two previous releases, All These Things We’ll Never Need recorded by Bill Korecky (Mushroomhead) and Between, Above, and Below produced by Mike Watts (As Tall As Lions, The Dear Hunter), received great reviews selling over 10,000 physical copies.
Asleep has performed at SXSW 2010 & 2011, opened for Deftones, as well as sharing the stage with The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, Sonic Youth and Kings of Leon at Blossom Music Center and Tower City Amphitheater in Cleveland, OH. Having toured the midwest, northeast and south various times, performing well over 300 shows since late 2006, Asleep is ready to take the world by storm with Unpleasant Companion.
Source: Big Picture Media – January 6, 2012
