Album of the Day: Sandman - Chiv
I apologize in advance as this album is not available on any free embedded listening platform, as the author is probably either not known enough or not interested into giving the rights of his music to another platform that will indubitably make more money than him on it.
So Bandcamp it is.
Sandman - Chiv
A bit more about it:
Nic Snyder’s music is pretty, but there’s something rotten about it. That’s the quality that comes to mind with this guy: charming and woozy while smuggling something nasty on the sly. It tastes good, but it’ll make you sick.
Last year, the former Pittsburgher relocated to the West Coast. Last month, he released his first new music since the move, under the name SANDMAN: an eight song EP called CHIV. Full disclosure: some of that sentence is not true. The music isn’t all that new, he didn’t write it since the move, and “EP” doesn’t seem quite right for this group of songs. It is called CHIV, though.
CHIV will sound familiar to Snyder’s fans, particularly those who fell hard for the sample-heavy interludes that dotted 1,2,3’s 2014 record Big Weather.
Like “Waiting For The Horsemen” and “In The House Of the Locust,” which paired cinematic string samples with Snyder’s witty, lively narration (“this show’s the fakest”), CHIV pits Snyder & his guitar against dusty samples of drums and strings.
The whole thing sounds like a nightmare, but a really good one.
The tracks are listed in the following order:
- DRIVING
- ANIMAL JEN
- BORN TO LOSE
- 76
- SLOE ARCH
- GNAGGING
- MASS
- IT