Traces, by Sandy

Traces

by Sandy

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Emil Lech Studzinski Of all the albums I’ve discovered on Bandcamp, this might be the best. Favorite track: Not There.

Emmerich All four songs unfurl with patience and introduce irresistible details with perfect timing. The introspective, careful approach lifts this miles above generic chill.

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Traces – the group’s first release since its self-titled debut on Night People in 2014 – is a work of duality. The band’s layered synths and beats build a richly woven tapestry of seemingly disparate and opposing forces that forge new ground in electronic music. The songs are both ambient and anthemic. And yet, they are anthems with restraint, always pulling back just before entirely breaking through the carefully composed tension. The lyrics are both mournful and hopeful, a binary that is embodied in the music itself.

Dreamy, overlapping synth parts wash over you while the songs take twists and turns that command your attention and get your foot tapping, if not your body moving. Specters and spirits abound, as drums appear and later disappear out of nowhere like an apparition, and haunting synth lines sound like they’ve been ripped out of a score to an eerie sci-fi film of your imagination. By Traces’ end, you feel like you’ve experienced something – something cohesive and whole, carefully built within the fabric of these four songs, as if Sandy has told the story they wanted to tell in the amount of time it took to tell it.

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released October 25, 2019

Samantha Pathe (synths/vocals)
Stephen Pathe (drum machines/samples)
Jeff Carter (synths/vocals)

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Sandy Brooklyn, New York

Sandy produces electronic soundscapes for visual mediums, narratives and spaces. Sandy is Jeff Carter and Stephen Pathe.

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