Head over to Amnesia in San Francisco this Friday (10/30) before Halloween for a really great show. It is a joint record release event shared between Sonny & the Sunsets and The Sandwitches. They will be celebrating the coming release and recent release of Tomorrow is Alright (Secret Seven / Soft Abuse) and How To Make Ambient Sadcake (Turn Up!), respectively (pictured above).
Sonny & the Sunsets will be releasing their debut LP on the Secret Seven (our co-conspirator on The Two Sides of Tim Cohen) and Soft Abuse labels this November 17th. It features an all-star cast including Kelley Stoltz, Tim Cohen, Shayde Sartin, Heidi Alexander, and Thalia Harbour among others! You can pre-order a copy directly from Secret Seven Records at our store HERE. It will ship before the release date.
Check out what people have said so far:
“It sounds like the perfect end-of-summer West Coast twilight campfire kickback record.” — The Catbirdseat
“With their first full length Tomorrow is Alright, Sonny and the Sunsets have created a simply wonderful West Coast pop album.” — The Bay Bridged
“With Sonny there’s no telling whether the joke’s on him or the joke’s on you, tongues are poked firmly in cheek while at the same time being so confessionally honest that it catches you off guard. Johnathan Richman and Brian Wilson clasp hands and stumble down hillsides to laugh in the sun and cry in the shade and somehow main Sunsetter Sonny Smith pulls it all off with the charm and conviction of a wizened soul shaking his head at those young bucks that’ll never listen and hardly learn.” — Raven Sings the Blues
“This songs on this record have essentially blindsided me as I had no prior knowledge of Sonny before hearing this record, and I can’t speak for anyone else but this record might just be coming out at the perfect time. Sonny & the Sunsets play stimulating and practically theatrical piano-driven tunes that would feel at home both modern-day at a cluttered house-show in North California or in the early 60s playing alongside Robert Zimmerman in a Greenwich Village bar.” — Weekly Tape Deck
New San Francisco label Turn Up! records has officially released the debut record by the Sandwitches. It is titled How To Make Ambient Sadcake. We were lucky enough to get a handful copies for our store, and it is also available at Aquarius Records. It is a killer debut… it shreds… but don’t take our word for it… take Kelly Stoltz‘s:
“The Sandwitches came out of nowhere. Well…that’s not quite right of course…but sometimes it happens, when you get three DNA’s together doing their own tunes, you kind of forgot what they were up to before. Or at least that’s what happened when I first wrapped ears around the sounds contained herein. A Holy Communion of Roky Erickson and Stevie Nicks. A lyrical beauty too. Strings bobbing around like loose wires on the headstock, chiming and picking away and baking the ambient sadcake. Tomorrows beat, learned yesterday or some time ago in band from back when. More jazzed up than the Moe Tucker and “Be My Baby”. Boom and crash – loose/tight – on time and free. When the daylight pop appears, upbeat introductions keep you comfortable for a spell, but the hopeful sun has soon gone down and there are now more questions and apologies amid the darkness – and the headline reads “The Carter Family Goes Electric”. But there are no taunts of “Judas!” this time, only “Midas!” = yeah the one with the golden touch. Something cool and beautiful and true is happening here. The Sandwiches are bringing this vision to life. Imagine a 60’s Girl-group is on tour and their van breaks down near a gothic castle high on the hill, Dario Argento invites them in to perform a concert for his tweaked actors in a big dark red room inside and, if the dream is right, it’s the Sandwiches – they’d fit right in with those misfits and speak the same language. I’d like to be there to dance.
Close your eyes and you’ll see what I mean. These are fab, haunting tunes wrapped in tender weird pop. That’s what we got here. A heavy party you want to hang out at.” –Kelley Stoltz
“The three ladies in the band have done time in great San Francisco bands like Brilliant Colors, The Fresh & Onlys, Pillars Of Silence and it is kind of cool how if you did put all three of those bands in a blender the sound of the Sandwitches can really be imagined. So many bands of late seem to be so dialed into such a narrow and small palette of sounds so it’s really refreshing to hear a band who are no one trick pony, but instead cover lots of musical ground but do so with a cohesiveness that is often really tricky to pull off like The Sandwitches do on this debut. In lots of ways the record makes us think of what it would sound like for a band on Woodsist to cover Fleetwood Mac’s amazing record Tusk.
There is also something so honest and sincere about their delivery that you get the feeling they would play these songs with as much conviction and emotion in their living room filled with a few friends as much as they would on stage at a packed venue.” –Aquarius Records
One of the most beautiful voices and greatest champions of social justice of the last century passed away this morning. Joan Baez is said to have been so moved by her presence that she once dropped to her knees to kiss her feet. Rest in peace Mercedes Sosa.
“I was killed a thousand times. I disappeared a thousand times, and here I am, risen from the dead. . . . Here I am, out of the ruins the dictatorship left behind. We’re still singing.” — Mercedes Sosa
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