Sink Tapes

Sink Tapes
Sink Tapes at Stoshs, June 22, 2018.
Background information
Origin	New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres	Indie, pop rock
Years active	2010 (2010)–present
Labels	Don't Live Like Me, Mint 400, Fourth Row, Sniffling Indie Kids
Members	Gabe Chiarello Alex Kielmanski Ricky Kuczynski

Sink Tapes are an American indie rock band from New Jersey.

History

Sink Tapes are a three-piece indie rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, that formed in 2010. Same Strange Dream was released in 2010 on DVD. Their second album, Please Touch, released on November 22, 2012, and is noted for its "fuzzy '90s tact [and] the freer tendencies rock's helped foster since '60s experimentalism." The EP Mattress Cowboys was released in 2013.

Mint 400 Records

Sink Tapes signed with Mint 400 Records in 2013, and released the single "Super Happy" and the album How You Mean. In 2014, Mint 400 Records reissued Please Touch and Mattress Cowboys. Sink Tapes signed with Sniffling Indie Kids in 2015. The twenty-five track album, Creases, was released that year. Physical copies of Creases were made available by Sniffling Indie Kids, who has subsequently released several albums by Sink Tapes. They released the single "You Shouldn't Have" on July 17, 2015, and on August 27 they released Window Unit Blues, a twelve-track album. A live acoustic rendition of the song "You Shouldn't Have" appears on the compilation, In a Mellow Tone. The six-track ST EP 16 was released on March 8, 2016.

Sink Tapes performed at the 2016 North Jersey Indie Rock Festival. The experimental sixteen-track Secret Club, recorded on a four-track cassette, was released on February 20, 2018. Their song "Cassini" appears on the Mint 400 Records compilation album, NJ / NY Mixtape.

Members

• Gabe Chiarello – vocals and drums
• Alex Kielmanski – guitar
• Ricky Kuczynski – guitar and vocals

Past members

• Thomas Dalzell – bass (2010–2015)
• Matt Lambert – bass (2016–2017)

Discography

Albums

• Same Strange Dream (2010)
• Please Touch (2012)
• How You Mean (2013)
• Touchdown Buffalo (2014)
• Creases (2015)
• In the Rug (2015)
• Window Unit Blues (2015)
• ST EP 16 (2016)
• Secret Club (2018)
• Playground of Verses (2018)
• Enough to Flood the Cow (2019)

EPs

• Mattress Cowboys (2013)

Singles

• "Super Happy" (2013)
• "Nightmail" (2013)
• "You Sulk When You Sleep" (2014)
• "Plastic Lover" (2015)
• "You Shouldn't Have" (2015)
• "Priority Mail" (2015)
• "Wizard Shit" (2018)
• "Cut Flowers" (2019)
• "Drac/Witch" (2019)
• "Curtains" (2020)
• "Kisses For Richard" (2020)

Appearing on

• Patchwork (2014)
• Transformed: A Tribute to Lou Reed (2014)
• In a Mellow Tone (2015)
• NJ / NY Mixtape (2018)

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Cantor, Dave (December 26, 2016), "Sink Tapes chase down the specter of indie success", The Daily Progress, retrieved January 29, 2019
• Draisin, Deborah (2015), "New From Mint 400", Jersey Beat, retrieved December 21, 2018
• Makin, Bob (February 8, 2018), "Makin Waves Scene Report: The Burns, Sink Tapes, The Clydes, more", Institute for Nonprofit News, retrieved March 9, 2019
• Mar, Maria (December 19, 2012), "Maria Mar's Local Radar: Sink Tapes & GayGay/StraightGuy", The Aquarian Weekly, retrieved May 5, 2015
• Mehalick, Mike (September 12, 2016), "Live Review: The North Jersey Indie Rock Festival", Speak Into My Good Eye, retrieved February 6, 2019
• Moore, Shannon (February 17, 2014), "Noun, R.S.O., Great Western Plain @ The Candy Barrel, New Brunswick, NJ: February 14, 2014", CMJ, retrieved May 5, 2015
• Rotolo, Chris (September 30, 2015), "SIMGE Stream: Sink Tapes Drops Window Unit Blues... Playing New Brunswick w/ Worriers", Speak Into My Good Eye, retrieved January 15, 2019
• Shrum, Tony (March 25, 2014), "Album Review: Sink Tapes–"Mattress Cowboys"", New Noise, retrieved May 5, 2015
• Testa, Jim (2016), "Sink Tapes EP 16", Jersey Beat, retrieved January 29, 2019

External links

• Media related to Sink Tapes at Wikimedia Commons
• Sink Tapes discography at Discogs