Sleepy Sun’s rays of psychedelia shine with confidence

Is it ever a surprise when a new psychedelic rock band emerges from San Francisco?

By Wyatt Williams Tuesday September 1, 2009 05:00 PM EDT

STONED ORB: San Francisco’s the Sleepy Sun play music beyond their years.
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Is it ever a surprise when a new psychedelic rock band emerges from San Francisco? Mind-altering music might be Northern California’s second-largest export, right after the cash crops budding in Humboldt County. The six fresh-faced twentysomethings who play music as Sleepy Sun - from San Francisco by way of Santa Cruz - are well-acquainted with Northern California’s rich musical history and somewhat criminal agricultural output. Judging by their debut LP, Embrace, they’ve been eating pot brownies and digesting Neil Young guitar solos since grade school.-

Calling from a remote cabin in the mountains outside of Tahoe, bassist Jack Allen joked about being pigeonholed as a San Francisco act. &-;Actually, we’ve been talking about just changing our name to Haight Street Acid Beard,” he says.-

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(Photo by Brett Wilde)





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