# SANDMAN SLEEPS Releases Exhilarating Post Punk Single “Fellini” off Debut Album

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/sandman-sleeps-releases-exhilarating-post-punk-single-fellini-off-debut-album/
- Published: 2022-02-25T13:30:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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**SANDMAN SLEEPS**
**Releases Exhilarating** **Post Punk Single “**[**Fellini**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=6f89ade455&e=615f2b8493)**“**

**Premieres _via_ The Big Takeover**

**Debut Album **[**_Crisis Actor_**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=e156844af6&e=615f2b8493)_****_**
Out March 26**

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**SANDMAN SLEEPS**
Photo credit: **Parisa Farbakhsh**

**FEBRUARY 25, 2022 (Fort Pierce, FL) — **“Musically, I was heavy into Joy Division
during this time and wanted to make something in that New Wave/Punk vein,” says **
Sandman Sleeps’ **vocalist/guitarist **Cristina Peck** of the band’s newest punchy
upbeat post-punk track “[**Fellini**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=6fb314bc51&e=615f2b8493),”
which she wrote with her bassist sister** Alex Peak **in 2010. “I liked the freedom
in Joy Division’s music. There’s a lot of room for vocals when the guitar is minimized
to playing single notes versus full chords. That is the inspiration for where those
single notes came from that I played. It felt rawer than what I’d make on my own,
which I loved.” Formed by Cristina and Alex as teens, Sandman Sleeps reconvened 
with renewed passion in 2019 and was enhanced even more with the addition of drummer**
Karsten Andersen** and guitarist **Zack Jones **in early 2020. The band’s debut 
album_** Crisis Actor **_[out independently on **March 26, 2021**] was a decade 
in the making and it embroiders songs old and new with honed musicality and diverse
life experience. Read the **Big Takeover** premiere [**HERE**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=e620667b07&e=615f2b8493).

**Listen/share “Fellini”: **[https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sandmansleeps/fellini](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=adfba01673&e=615f2b8493)

Cristina says “Fellini” is in one part about personal experiences, but it’s also
an ode to their mom’s love of iconic film director Federico Fellini whose monumental
film _La Dolce Vita_ (1960) was particularly an influence for this new single. “
Fellini” was written in 2010 by Alex and Christina when they (along with band friend
and drummer Gavin McAlexander) were all jamming on a bass riff Alex started and 
had all found it “catchy as hell. I believe it was written all in that one sitting-
it developed very organically.” Cristina altered some of the lyrics in 2020 mostly
because there were parts she had “mumbled in gibberish” because she couldn’t decide
on exact words, but for the most part she says she got lucky with “Fellini” and 
pretty much all the songs she’d wrote with Alex. “I feel like working on ‘Fellini’
together brought to our attention just the fact that we can jam and write intuitively
together,” she says. “When Alex and I write together I always felt this sense of
wonderment- like this is moving in a neat direction and I don’t know where it’s 
going but it feels right. It always felt extremely intuitive and special- I suppose
if you can say there is any magic involved in song writing that’d be the magical
part for us. All the sibling telepathy.” 

The recording process for “Fellini,” which began taking place in 2020, was also 
relatively quick and easy. “The full band took the song where it needed to be with
energy drive and mood and we all just kind of nailed it. I think it may have been
the easiest song to record.” Even though the track is twelve years old, Cristina
says she still feels connected to it,** “**I can be really critical, especially 
of older things I write, but surprisingly this one held up- I still love it**.”**

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_Crisis Actor_
**Tracklisting** 1. “Soaked”2. “Feet”3. “Opaque” 4. “[Fellini](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=d818f52672&e=615f2b8493)“
5. “Induced”6. “Spiral”7. “Five Bell Alarm”8. “[Portrait Of Jennie](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=bc673bd2cc&e=615f2b8493)“
9. “Summer Rain”10. “Rare Cloud”

“Fellini” follows the album’s mesmerizing first single “[**Portrait of Jennie**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=27b46b851d&e=615f2b8493)”(
released in January) which was written by Cristina in June of 2020 while quarantining
at her then partner’s place on the Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, both sick with
Covid. “Despite how draining and scary the sickness was, I’m fortunate to have eventually
been able to find a calm in its lethargy,” she recalled. She says she felt “physically
trapped yet increasingly spiritually free. I was forced to be hopeful, no matter
what.” Recently having watched the movie of the same name she also took inspiration
from its concept: lovers being brought together by an otherworldly phenomenon such
as time travel/other dimensions, but this same phenomenon was also the boundary 
which ultimately kept the lovers at a distance.

On _Crisis Actor_, Sandman Sleeps merge various musical genres without ever feeling
too muddled. Their debut album knows no boundaries and never panders, instead letting
us run with its emotional hints to our own destinations, different on every listen.
It’s effectively a “best-of” culled from a decade of songcraft. It’s an arresting,
singularly evocative and authentic expression inspired by Pixies, Kate Bush, Talking
Heads, and Tori Amos, yet not sounding like any of these – or anyone else. 

_**Crisis Actor**_ will be released on **March 26, 2021** and can be pre-ordered/
pre-saved [**HERE**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=2e049b5608&e=615f2b8493).“
[**Fellini**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=ab5af383eb&e=615f2b8493)”
is available on all DSPs now!

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