It's east meets west as two of Australia's most original and exciting progressive bands join forces to record a split album release.
As has been hinted for weeks on the official sleepmakeswaves forum at OzProg.com, the Sydney post-rock band has been locked away in the studio recording brand new material for the split with Perth's Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, which is due out in early 2009.
More details including track list and cover artwork are still to be revealed.
A press release from the bands said: "The decision to have Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving and sleepmakeswaves co-exist on a single piece of polycarbonate was made on the spur of the moment, without much thought for time or expense, but like most good ideas it has developed a momentum all of its own, with all involved spending the last few months zealously writing and recording to see the split out by early 2009."
"The release will find both bands delving deeper into their latent electronic influences and refining their songwriting, with Tangled's dark experimentalism offsetting the cinematic exuberance of the sleepmakeswaves half. But most significantly, the split will foreshadow bigger and better things for both groups. It will be a precursor to Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving's debut full-length, slated for late 2009, and a similar sleepmakeswaves release that exists in the more distant future."
Keep an eye on OzProg for more updates in the future, and check out sleepmakeswaves and Tangled Throughts Of Leaving on MySpace at
www.myspace.com/sleepmakeswaves and
www.myspace.com/ttol.
Both bands have festival appearances coming up on December 27th, with TTOL appearing at Perth's Rollercoaster Festival and sleepmakeswaves taking a trip for Melbourne for OzProg's Prog Fest.
