{"id":621932,"date":"2026-08-05T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/621932\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:48:13","slug":"sleep-announce-first-album-in-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/621932\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Announce First Album in Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/30405-sleep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sleep<\/a> has more in store than an upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sleep-return-with-tour-comic-book-and-first-new-song-in-eight-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tour and comic book<\/a>. The stoner doom-metal gods are set to drop Hempispheres (<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/16601-dopesmoker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get it<\/a>?) on October 30 via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/hempispheres\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/ffm.to\/hempispheres&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/hempispheres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Third Man<\/a>. The follow-up to 2018\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/sleep-the-sciences\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sciences<\/a> marks the band\u2019s first with its new lineup of Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover, who join longtime frontman Al Cisneros. Hempispheres will include the already-released single \u201cHave Spacesuit Will Travel\u201d and a new one, \u201cThe Morrisist,\u201d which you can listen to below.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, Sleep head out on a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sleep-return-with-tour-comic-book-and-first-new-song-in-eight-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long headlining tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read about Sleep\u201ds \u201cMarijuanaut\u2019s Theme\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/the-200-best-songs-of-the-2010s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hempispheres<strong>:<\/strong><br \/>01 Have Spacesuit Will Travel<br \/>02 The Morrisist<br \/>03 Hempispheres<br \/>04 Arrival of the Industry Ships<br \/>05 Whole Wheat Mountain Well Baked<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Nature Night Outdoors Book Publication Adult and Person\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/%5BAlbum%20Artwork%5D%20Sleep%20-%20Hempispheres.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sam Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sleep has more in store than an upcoming tour and comic book. The stoner doom-metal gods are set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[1735,18,117,19,17,337,340],"class_list":["post-621932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117043456596324788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}