Sannhet

So Numb

by Sannhet

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Christopher Titus I'm really loving this album. Driving, evocative and atmospheric instrumental music. very dynamic music that has a presence that a lot of instrumental music is often lacking. Favorite track: Sleep Well.

Christian Schaefer Featured this album on the thirty third issue of RULE of THREE (bit.ly/RULEofTHREEbc). Utterly epic. It opens with a steady delayed bass line which holds threat and tension in equal measure as the synth textures and guitars start to rise and swell above it. You won’t miss the drums when they come in - this track is full of intent and is just magical. Dark, lush, brooding with a glimmer of hope that shines through like a blade of light that bursts into flames when all the guitars finally land. Favorite track: Fernbeds.

LoneWolf Excellent instrumental album~ nice mix of post-rock that gets slow and heavy at times also amazing live band... Highly recommended

Steve L. Great follow up to Revisionist. A little more spaced out, but still fantastic musicianship and song craft. Favorite track: Sleep Well.

Antonio Miranda Post-rock meets death metal in this intensely atmospheric opus. Favorite track: So Numb.

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1.	Indigo Illusion 04:39	buy track
2.	Sapphire 04:26	buy track
3.	So Numb 03:29	buy track
4.	Fernbeds 07:28	buy track
5.	Salts 05:44	buy track
6.	Way Out 04:45	buy track
7.	Secondary Arrows 04:08	buy track
8.	Sleep Well 04:36	buy track
9.	Wind Up 03:35	buy track

about

The cover of Sannhet’s third album, So Numb, features a mother shielding her son’s eyes with her hands - an allegory depicting the protection one receives from their parents, but it isn’t meant to be sentimental. As the mother shelters her child, she inadvertently creates a false sense of safety. The child, in turn, spends it's life seeking comfort and escape in temporary solutions.

Though Sannhet meditate on life’s imperfect escapes, So Numb’s nine songs showcase the band facing life’s pain and joy with their eyes wide open. The collection’s emotional landscape is one of existential dread, melancholy, and loss - ammunition for escapists. Despite these existential conundrums, So Numb has an uplifting, euphoric feel.

The collection was recorded and produced by Peter Katis, who’s known for his work with Mercury Rev, Interpol, the National, and Oneida among others. Working with Katis, the production illuminates a more open sound for the band. While Sannhet’s second album, 2015’s Revisionist, was bigger and harsher than their 2013 debut, Known Flood, they offer a more wistful, melodic approach here.

The first track, “Indigo Illusion,” opens with Christopher Todd’s eviscerating, but anchoring drums locked in with AJ Annunziata’s driving bass and John Refano’s clamoring, unexpectedly coaxing guitar melodies—the song, a muscular anthem that mixes feedback and space, ends up sounding like a million crystals shattering in a dark room. Alternately, the heavier, more solemn and cavernous “Fernbeds” finds added pathos from guest guitar leads by one-man shoegaze-metal artist, Planning for Burial’s Thom Wasluck.

As on past Sannhet albums, the song titles are evocative (“Sapphire,” the churning “Sleep Well,” “Fernbeds,” “Way Out”), but not prescriptive. By the time you’ve gotten to the drifting, airy “Salts,” it’s clear Sannhet has become a more patient, painterly band. The collection ends with the massive “Sleep Well” followed by the eerie, ambient “Wind Up.” Those two songs offer a good example of what the band does well: moving between extremes to create a dynamic that feels both climactic and anticipatory, dramatic and comfortably calm.

Sannhet have always been hard to classify. Since 2010, the Brooklyn trio’s played instrumental music that’s heavy and light, cinematic and intimate, dense but minimal. You could call them “post” something, “experimental metal,” or “math rock,” but none of that’s quite right and the band has thrown another wrinkle into the mix with So Numb. While they don’t write lyrics, they do write subtexts. They pen love letters, extended epistles, and suicide notes, all without words. With So Numb, Sannhet create a new world out of very few ingredients.

credits

released August 25, 2017

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Peter Katis

Sannhet Are:
Christopher Todd - drums and samples
John Refano - guitar and loopers
AJ Annunziata - bass guitar and visuals

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Sannhet Brooklyn, New York

shows

May 24

The State House

New Haven, CT
May 25

Bangor Arts Exchange

Bangor, ME
May 26

13th Floor Music Lounge

Florence, MA
May 27

Karl Hall

Wilkes-barre, PA

discography

So Numb

Aug 2017
Revisionist

Mar 2015
Young Death

Jun 2016
Lions Eye

Nov 2013
Known Flood

Feb 2013
Sannhet

Jul 2011

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