Sandy’s
The brainchild of former Botticellis founding member Alexi Glickman, Sandy's takes its name from his post-surfing habit of tracking bits of the beach into friends' cars and gives breezy psych-pop a twist with open-tuned guitars. Recruiting members of Botticellis, Apollo Sunshine, and Sonny & the Sunsets, the project's debut album, Fourth Dementia, appeared in 2014. By their third album, 2021's Magic Mind, Glickman had expanded personnel and shifted into lusher, trippier arrangements and a higher-fidelity recording approach.
Along with his time in the Botticellis -- whose 2008 album Old Home Movies earned acclaim for its warm, intricate indie pop -- Glickman also played with Little Wings before forming Sandy's as a solo project in 2012. Eventually, Sandy's grew to include his former Botticellis bandmate Burton Li on guitar, Sonny & the Sunsets' Nick Aives on bass, and Apollo Sunshine's Jeremy Black on drums. The band recorded their debut album at Glickman's and Black's respective studios, enlisting help from members of Rustangs, Vetiver, and Tortured Genies; the results, Fourth Dementia, arrived in June 2014 on Um Yeah Arts. The EP Prom followed in July 2015 on Sandyams, Dingo Records, and Superfan 99 (U.K.). Following a recording by Glickman and drummer Cody Rhodes of the "Surfy Christmas" single, released in December 2017, Sandy's second full-length, Chime, featured the lineup of Glickman, Rhodes, Li (guitar, bass), David Muller (guitar, bass), and Sam Buchanan (guitar). It arrived on Sandyams in April 2018.
Royal Oakie Records signed the group in 2020 and released a series of stand-alone songs including "In the Keep of Collapsing Star" and "It's Gonna Be Alright." With Glickman citing influences ranging from Bach to Brian Wilson, Magic Mind, a concept album that follows a couple on a mystical journey while they're both helped and challenged along the way, eventually followed on Royal Oakie in June 2021. It featured Chime's personnel, minus Buchanan, and adding Aives, Dmitri Glickman, Iain Mann, Brett Garsed, and Jeremy Harris.
-Heather Phares (All Music)
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