Sleep the Winter

Kilter | December 2009

Seasonal 7" single - strictly limited to 500 copies. Each one is individually wrapped and hand stamped.

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Order the single from Bandcamp

Sleep the Winter is now available exclusively from our Bandcamp page. This includes a free immediate download of the single once your order is placed.

Sleep the Winter is also available to buy from Avalanche and Elvis Shakespeare in Edinburgh, and Monorail in Glasgow.

Praise for 'Sleep the Winter':

"Eagleowl’s aptitude for meticulously delicate, dewy-eyed alt-folk will be no secret to anyone with a copy of For the Thoughts You Never Had in their collection, yet Sleep the Winter’s gentle strings and appropriately chilly, under-the-breath vocals still manage to constitute an eye-opening step forward. ...Both understatedly subtle yet monumentally affecting."
**** - Chris Buckle, the Skinny

"eagleowl have recorded an exquisite song that’s far more than the sum of its parts ... a very special band in a league of their own."
**** - Andy Wood, Is This Music

"An excellent piece of work"
Gideon Coe, BBC 6 Music

"Delicious bit of lo-fi post folk what comes charmingly wrapped in hand-made loveliness."
Wendy Roby, Drowned in Sound

For the Thoughts You Never Had EP

Fife Kills: Records | August 2008

Our debut EP was released in a strictly limited edition CD with screen printed hand folded card sleeve. All physical copies have now sold out, but the EP is available to download from Bandcamp.

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Praise for 'For the Thoughts You Never Had':

"Manages to perfectly capture what has made them such an appealing live prospect. Gentle harmonies and groaning strings combine to create a set of atmospheric slow burners in which every note and nuance sounds completely deliberate and considered."
***** - Brian Sherry, Is This Music?

"a wonderfully atmospheric piece of slowcore post-folk, reminiscent at times of Low, with a dash of Scottish sea shanty thrown in here, a soupcon of Adem’s organic melancholy there, all of it positively oozing home-grown, home-cooked goodness."
**** - Doug Johnstone, the List (single of the fortnight)

Their slow-burning, fragile folk refuses to betray youthful energy, instead moving with care to preserve the peace behind each song. Most impressively, eagleowl know exactly how to construct a collection of songs that flows from first second to last.
**** - Ally Brown, the Skinny

"gorgeously quavering folk harmonies"
Rob Fitzpatrick, Word magazine