Born in Jersey City and based in Brooklyn, it's SAILOR BOYFRIEND.
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Sailor Boyfriend is a late stage, synthrock outfit that Andy Waldron (he/him) wears, sewn together with guitarist Alex Mercuri (he/him) (Long Neck, Pom Pom Squad) in Jersey City in 2016.
The twoalbums, threedifferentEPs,
and varietyofcompilationappearences cumulatively sound like if Brandon Flowers (The Killers) dropped The Book of Mormon and picked up The Phantom Tollbooth.
Across sixty plus gigs sharing bills with the likes of Water from Your Eyes, Ike Ufomadu, Graces Ives, River L. Ramirez, Porches and more, the delightfully confrontational live act boasts a mesh of performance art, shtick, and rock and roll moves – having graced public access television, monthly drag variety nights, and countless DIY spaces that don’t exist anymore out of reasons good and bad.
Andy is currently working on a third album about wavering faith in music and labor, Worksong (due sometime in 2024), at his Brooklyn apartment and continuing to bear the oddly specific deal the devil has gifted him in exchange for not being able to process dairy: a musical prowess described as a "tone [existing] somewhere between sincerity and absurdity"(Various Small Flames), making "space [to] dance ourselves clean of fatalism, even if for one fleeting moment"(THE DELI), and akin to "an arcade on a giant hover board [flown] to Antarctica"(SMALL ALBUMS).
He can be reached via email (preferred) at mailorboyfriend [at] gmail [dot] com and via social media on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky, and Facebook.
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Here are a few places where Andy got interviewed: video & audio.
