Sands Hollow – Half the Night is Candlelight (2012)

Winston Chapman wrote 100 songs. Zach Biggs whittled away at them. Between shifts of guarding an oil field and teaching special ed., the two of them pared down the pile, squeezing cheap keyboard strings, campfire acoustic strumming and optimistic warnings into the fake-nostalgia, cassette-recorded jams of their debut full-length album, "Half the Night is Candlelight", out in early 2012 on Monofonus Press on vinyl. From the label - "Sands Hollow smoothly jump to the long format and still leave us wanting more with Half the Night is Candlelight. Keeping the sun in even their darker corners, they’ve made an excellent debut that plays out not as a “psych” album, but as a folk record that accidentally got weird."