Fresco Shed

Sleeper and Snake pairs up the great Al Montfort (Total Control, The UV Race, Dick Diver) and Amy Hill (Primo!, Constant Mongrel), who’ve both found themselves in league as band mates in Terry.

This album isn’t quite the pop pairing that it seems on the surface. Accompanying the strums, jangles, and geniality, there’s also offbeat electronics and free jazz fizz. Sleeper and Snake is a more subtle, intriguing, and experimental endeavor.

Homespun vignettes of warbled keyboards, fizzed improv interludes, shifting layers of skewed harmony, and wistful yet pointed lyrical pep is their measure. The duo still lock into a mordant lo-fi mode, but there’s a delicacy at play here too with cello, harmonica, and even sarangi being employed in the foundation of these frothy concoctions of outsider folk and post-punk hodgepodge.