Sleep House releases their groovy, electric, windows-down worthy, song of the summer "yolo"

Jun 16

Words and Photos by Ava Firmani

As Sleep House continues to put their creative energy into releasing catchy, nifty music, you’re not going to want to miss out on listening to their newly released song of the summer.

For those unfamiliar, in the midst of 2016, four high school freshmen decided to begin their journey from making a dream turn into reality. Sleep House consists of four Philly/New Jersey based musicians: Nick Gardyasz (vocals/guitar), Adam Mink (guitar), Nick Marcinko (drums) and Evan Marcinko (bass).

By forming a band out of a surfaced idea, they are now known for releasing their well-captivated indie hits. The bands’ dedication and drive is off the charts as they radiate charismatic energy that they continue to pour into creating songs like their newly released single titled “Yolo”.

“Yolo” introduces an upbeat, mellow bass with fun and groovy acoustics on the guitar and drums. The minute the intro starts, you’re going to want to start bopping your head to the beat. “Yolo” feels like a “coming of age” movie being brought to life, just in time for you to channel your “main character” energy going into the summer. After listening to this catchy, new single you’re going to have it on loop with the windows down and blasting this song in your car all summer long. The excitement doesn’t stop there.

Best Left Magazine: What was the inspiration for this song?

Sleep House: When we finished our last EP, Forever Joy, we were really burnt out creatively and as a band as a whole since we had spent a lot of time and energy on that record. When we began writing new stuff after that release, we decided we wanted to put our past methods of working, anxieties and any grievances behind us and start new; to focus purely on the music for the sake of just creating.

Nick G and I started hashing out a bunch of ideas in the beginning but this track was the first one we had that we fully demoed in pretty much one night that we knew would be the perfect step towards that new direction.
We see this track as a fresh start for us, all four of us now freshly adults and in our early twenties. The true inspiration for this track was to create something just for the sake of creating that makes us excited, doesn’t stress us out and that we would genuinely want to listen to. Especially with how much our music taste and sound has evolved since we started as teenagers, we always want to continue making music that tops the last stuff we put out and that challenges us as musicians and songwriters.

Best Left Magazine: what's "yolo" about?

Sleep House: Yolo, to me, is just about the idea of aging and mortality, especially from the perspective of someone currently feeling like they are in the in between of childhood and adulthood.

Every person has fears that bring the child side out of them but when they have to overcome and face those fears, sometimes directly, the adult side is what takes over and allows us to go, “yolo”. It’s the wrestling of these two different types of feelings we have and how complicated that can be that I relate ‘yolo’ to. The childish term “yolo” correlates to doing something (typically stupid or scary) that someone wouldn’t normally want to do but they decide to do it anyway because at the end of the day, no one is promised a tomorrow.

Essentially, you can wrestle in your head with the idea of mortality and aging all you want but at the end of the day, you will only live once. ‘Yolo’ addresses the bitter accepting of that fact that we all only live once and we all are just kids that grew old but still have fears we face even if we feel we’re too old to have them.

Along with the release of “yolo” also comes a playful and retro-like music video for the fans to enjoy while getting into the groove of this catchy tune. The best part of ‘Sleephouse’ rising into stardom is seeing them have fun with their greatest passion, which is exactly what this captivating music video shows the audience.