“Should Have Known” is an acoustic folk song by the professional band Sand Reckoner. The minute we heard this song we fell in love with it and we couldn’t get it out of our heads! The production is simple and beautiful, and there is an amazing level of songwriting that shines up through this record. The tune is catchy and the atmosphere is unique. The vocalist has one of the best voices we’ve heard in months and the acoustic guitar is haunting. We hope you love this song as much as we do!
WHAT THE BAND SAYS ABOUT THIS SONG:
“This is an acoustic folk song in a Nick Drake tuning about the quest for self awareness, indecision, regrets, trying to accept reality despite our brain’s natural defense mechanisms against it. No matter how hard we may try to be objective, there are just some things that the brain creates hopeful delusions for in order to protect us from the painful truth… particularly loss… “I should have known it’s gone”.”
ABOUT THE BAND:
Today’s world forces bands to plant themselves firmly in one niche/genre, but Sand Reckoner refuses to live in that world. Benjamin Hughes (drummer) and Jonathan Lesh (the rest) have been playing in the band together since 2006. 15 years later, they still refuses to settle on a single niche. After having opened for the likes of King Gizzard, Dead Meadow, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Night Beats, and the Besnard Lakes (twice!), the LA/Boston/Philly band is following up its 2016 psychedelic rock album with an entirely acoustic folk EP to be released on March 16. These six songs are just a small sample of the 70+ acoustic songs the band has written over the past ten years. After plans to record an electric album in April 2020 fell victim to Covid-19, the band ran out of excuses not to release some acoustic material. The massive amounts of reverb on guitar and vocals inherent in psychedelic rock conveniently help to cover up mistakes, but the opposite is true with acoustic folk music. So after spending an embarrassing number of hours writing, re-writing, recording, re-recording, mixing, and re-mixing these songs, Sand Reckoner is excited to present to the world for the first time a new, much more exposed style of its music. The EP was mastered by Ed Brooks, who had mastered the Fleet Foxes self-titled album, and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.
