The Shacks were recently featured in an iPhone 8 commercial, but they could have popped up in nearly any era by the sound of their wonderful new album Haze. They’ve made huge waves in 2018, but the tunes could be pure ‘68. Rotary organ like a lost Kingsmen joint? Check. A pouty, teen-drama vocal like the Shangri-Las? Oh, yeah. These anachronistic twentysomethings are proud to be the odd men and women out of the digital-recording rat race.
The tune itself has a sentimental history for the young group. Continues Wise, “It was the first song [co-founder and guitarist] Max [Shrager] and I wrote together. I had written the chords and some of the words, and Max helped arrange it into a song. We recorded a soft, sleepy sounding demo of us singing together while Max played guitar. When [producer] Leon [Michels] played it at home for his daughters, they called it ‘the sleepy song.’”