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Summer Underground
12+ albums
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Summer Underground is an indie-folk duo comprised of singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Grant Carey and Chrissy Sandman. The duo began making music as Summer Underground during the summer of 2011 in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Retreating back home after a year of college, the duo recorded their first album, Beneath This City, in their basements and living rooms. Recorded on a macbook with a single microphone, the album was created through trial and error. The album has a sonic quality that will forever feel worn and nostalgic. Antique toy piano mingles about with unpolished trombones and flutes; hollowed, detuned piano dances with a warm ukulele. And far above this youthful, awkward orchestra Chrissy and Grant find their singular voice through their opposing characteristics. A year later, Grant and Chrissy spent several months studying in London and Prague respectively. This experience would fuel the double EP project Departures & Arrivals. Released in December 2012, Departures was indeed a calculated departure from the cheery quirk-pop of Beneath This City in favor of a more aggressive, electronic sound. For the first time, the two experimented with computer-generated sounds - piecing together parts into a jarring sonic puzzle. In the year that followed, Summer Underground was ready again to shift perspectives and create music that felt more performative and visceral. The Arrivals EP was ironically recorded in two separate places; the duo utilized d
