Sleep Announce First Album in Eight Years

Skip to main contentNewsletterNewsReviewsBest New MusicFeaturesListsColumnsVideo“The Morrisist” is the second preview off Hempispheres, due out this fallPhoto by Travis ShinnSleep has more in store than an upcoming tour and comic book. The stoner doom-metal gods are set to drop Hempispheres (get it?), their first album in eight years, on October 30 via Third Man. The follow-up to 2018’s The Sciences marks the band’s first with its new lineup of Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover, who join longtime frontman Al Cisneros. Hempispheres will include the already-released single “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” and a new one, “The Morrisist,” which you can listen to below.Next month, Sleep head out on a long headlining tour.Read about Sleep”s “Marijuanaut’s Theme” in The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s.Hempispheres:01 Have Spacesuit Will Travel02 The Morrisist03 Hempispheres04 Arrival of the Industry Ships05 Whole Wheat Mountain Well BakedSam HarrisAlex Suskind has overseen music coverage for New York magazine’s Vulture and, before that, Entertainment Weekly. He has written about TV, film, technology, politics, and tons of other stuff for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, and The Fader. ... Read More