This Sandy City single mysteriously showed up in my inbox a while back and this watercolor sleeve caught my eye. I think you can tell a lot from a first impression like this, just a straight up good time, it's a sunny day and you capture that smiling moment with a new hat. It's friendly. Rehearsed just barely enough to come up with a strummed melody, the first track 'Graces' written only moments before, the minimal drums quiet for a moment and vocals haphazardly spoken and cracking apart. Lots of fun whoa chorus parts. Just a touch of reverb. Like Nodzzz, they've got good times rock dreams, sincerity, and just enough talent to know what parts are working. But mostly it's a collection of friends putting it out there on a tiny seven inch. Two sides of unpretentious glee.What is it with this surf fetish everyone is into lately? All I hear is some raw, backyard jam about the beach, and if this isn't summer I don't know what is. Surfing doesn't mean much to me, but it seems to inspire this kind of, not hippie, or burnout sloppiness, but just pop joy. It seems like a lot of work to get up early and swim all day, waiting forever for something to happen out of your control, but maybe this comes out of that a little. Don't force it, you'll get a shot, it won't be perfect but maybe just for yourself it's going to be right.
Really, it doesn't have to be all about the depression, or glitchy creepiness of electronics, there's room in your life for something randomly catchy, out of tune, and full of desperate fun. It feels homemade in it's nonchalance. It doesn't have to be about winning, it's the seven inches along the way.
Sandy City debut 7" out now or whatever.
3 songs of loud surf punx, indie pop, or something.
It's on Prty Ngg Records. They released a City Center 7", it's got a good song.
Sandy City is from Westport, Washington or maybe we're not.
Listen to all of our songs on Muxtape: http://sandycity.muxtape.com
Get it from Lost Sound Tapes: http://lostsoundtapes.com
Playing 3 shows in Seattle in April, that's more than we've probably ever played previously.
Our tape is called Surfin' WA. It's out of print. It will be on vinyl this summer. Okay?
Next album is called New Dog Rising. Goodbye.
Yr special.
