“Crisis Actor” by Sandman Sleeps - An Album Feature

 

      “Crisis Actor,” the debut album of Sandman Sleeps does not include a weak link among its 10 tracks. Still, from our perspective, the more favorable singles are the ones in which the lead vocals have many of the vocal characteristics of Chrissie Hynde, the Rocker voice and driving force of Pretenders. Perhaps the song with the closest alignment with Hynde is “Feet.” But our favorite single from the album is “Spiral.”
 
     Sandman Sleeps includes sisters Cristina Peck (guitar, vocals) and Alex Peck (bass), as well as Karsten Andersen (drums) and Zack Jones (guitar, vocals). They are based in Fort Pierce, Florida.
 
     Quoting press material with which we agree:
  A cohesive album that refuses to settle for just one style, Crisis Actor features everything from ethereal, moody alternative (“Soaked, “Opaque,” “Induced”), punchy upbeat tropical punk leanings (“Feet,” “Fellini,” “Five Bell Alarm”) which capture the band’s restless on-stage chemistry and energy, and indie, alt pop tendencies (“Spiral,” “Rare Cloud”). Lyrically, there are recurring themes such as fear of illness (coincidentally mostly not related to COVID), a hyperawareness of mind/body, love/break ups, as well as feelings of dissociation. ‘Crisis Actor’ knows no boundaries and never panders, instead letting us run with its emotional hints to our own destinations, different on every listen.

     “Spiral” by Sandman Sleeps

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Lyrics of “Spiral” by Sandman Sleeps

Awake

Thought I was done for

Cut the cake

Got to fight it off

Outside drifted parts of me

In your eyes all the memories

And I won’t trust fire in the sky

but I’ll throw myself in anyway

The game, got to fight it all

I found the words to say

but see how my lips will hold their shape?

I’m sipping in the dust and light

It’s just another way of keeping you close to my side

Come inside, hide

Ten billion years old

Would you stay the same?

Would you take me home?

Come inside, hide

     “Feet” by Sandman Sleeps

 

Lyrics of “Feet” by Sandman Sleeps

Strangers’ outside

Did you glow? Did you knock?

You vanished from my sight

I see the road but the signs won’t light up

And I feel my feet they’re already there

on the tile of your kitchen floor

So maybe if I squint so hard I’ll see the sun

You said emptiness is god

Another come and go

I’ll wait to find my own

Strangers’ outside

They won’t stop knocking now until you answer

But someone might come

They might carry you on your way now over their shoulder

(they might not)

And I feel my feet, they’re already there

on the tile of your kitchen floor

So maybe you’re thinking so hard nothing gets done

Even emptiness is god

Another come and go

I’ll wait to find my own

This is not my body

and it’s not the badge of my beliefs