''Team Sleep'' is the debut, and so far only, studio album by American rock band

Team Sleep Team Sleep is an American experimental alternative rock/post-rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno. Moreno is better known for fronting the Sacramento-based alternative metal band Deftones. Other current members include guitarist Todd ...

. It was largely produced by

Greg Wells Greg Wells is a Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter and audio engineer. Wells has songs on over 130 million albums sold. He has worked with John Legend, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ariana Grande, Jazmine Sullivan, Kid Cudi, Adele, Rufus Wai ...

. It was released in Europe on May 9, 2005 and a day later in the United States through

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Recording history

The debut album by Team Sleep was supposed to be released in 2003 but was scrapped due to the premature leakage of demos from the album onto the internet. The band split for a brief period of time before joining together and making material for a new album. Issues with

as well as commitments with other projects (most specifically singer

Chino Moreno Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno, June 20, 1973) is an American musician who is best known as the lead vocalist, primary lyricist and contributing guitarist of the metal band Deftones. He is also a member of the side-project groups Team S ...

and his band

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) delayed the release of the album numerous times. In early 2005, the official May 10 release was announced for the States with the announcement of a new track list and a band site on Maverick's web site. Some of the songs presented on the new album are altered or re-recorded versions of older Team Sleep songs. For example, "Ever" is actually one of Team Sleep's oldest songs, originally titled "Cambodia" and later "Foreign Flag". "Live from the Stage" is a restructured version of the original Team Sleep song "Natalie Portman". "King Diamond" appears remastered, with

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contributing extensive call-and-response vocals. "Tomb of Liegia" is a little-changed update of leaked song "Ligeia", also featuring Timony. The title of the song references

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's short story, "

Ligeia "Ligeia" () is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Wor ...

", and its

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film adaptation, while the lyrics are more broadly Poe-esque.

Artwork

The cover photo was shot by Lionel Deluy while the creative direction was led by Frank Maddocks (a Deftones companion since 2000's ''

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'').

Commercial performance

The album debuted at #52 on the Billboard 200, selling 18,159 copies in its first week.

Track listing

Personnel

*DJ Crook – drum programming (tracks: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15); turntables (tracks: 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15); keyboards (tracks: 6, 10, 14) *

Zach Hill Zachary Charles Hill (born December 28, 1979) is an American multi-instrumentalist and visual artist. He is best known as the drummer and co-producer of the groups Death Grips and the I.L.Y's, and as the drummer of math rock band Hella. Art In ...

– drums (tracks: 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15); piano (track 3); bass drum and xylophone (track 11) *Todd Wilkinson – guitar (all tracks, except 12); keyboards (tracks: 3, 4, 9); bass (tracks: 4, 9, 11) *Rick Verrett – bass (tracks: 1, 5, 7, 13, 15); guitar (track 1); keyboards (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12) *

– vocals (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15); guitar (tracks: 2, 5, 13); piano and keyboards (track 8)

Guests

*DJ C-Minus – drum programming (track 1) *

– piano (track 2) *

Dan Elkan Dan Elkan (born September 7, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and producer, who is best known as the singer and guitarist for the rock band Them Hills. Elkan has performed live with Broken Bells, Hella, and Kim Deal, and has appeared on ...

– guitar (track 3) *Sonny Mayugba – guitar (track 5) *

Rob Crow Robertdale Rulon Crow Jr. (born February 21, 1971) is an American singer and musician from San Diego, California, known for his involvement with the bands Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Physics, Optiganally Yours and Thingy. He has also led the band ...

– vocals (track 4, 7, 9 and 15) *

– vocals (track 8 and 12)

Release history

Charts

References

{{Authority control Team Sleep albums 2005 debut albums Maverick Records albums Albums produced by Greg Wells Albums produced by Ross Robinson