Photo Courtesy Dine Alone Records
Photo Courtesy Dine Alone Records

Hoorah!  4 long years after the incredible Hello Hum, Wintersleep has announced details of a brand new album!

The Great Detachment will hit stores on March 4th, and the first single “Amerika” is a nod to American poet Walt Whitman.  Frontman Paul Murphy told The Wall Street Journal [check out the full interview HERE] that his lyrics were inspired by Whitman’s 1888 poem “America”, saying “The enthusiasm and hope Whitman had for America as a place and an idea really struck me.  The word ‘America’ now a few hundred years later calls to mind something not so harmonious to the extreme. But I guess the initial spark for the lyrical side of the song was an attempt to connect to the sort of hope in the concept that Whitman is conjuring.”

Check out “Amerika”, below!