South London duo Sandhouse are back with a new one, and it’s a slow-burn stunner. Pollyanna is their latest single — a glimpse into a forthcoming project that the pair are keeping tantalizingly close to the chest for now.
Opening with glassy electronics before rupturing into distorted guitars and blown-out alt-rock catharsis, Pollyanna pairs Anna Sutherland’s featherlight vocals with lyrics that feel seductive and darkly playful — romantic fantasy gradually curdling into something more obsessive and difficult to control. Classic Sandhouse, really: dreamy on the surface, unsettling underneath.
The band had this to say about the track:
“‘Pollyanna’ is about becoming numbed by the cinema of infatuation, and using the fairytale of romance to blindly ignore any signs of reality.“
Consisting of Anna Sutherland and Caspar Holloway, Sandhouse carve out a sound that folds together grunge guitars, bleary trip-hop production, warped psychedelia and nocturnal alt-pop — and they’ve been doing it well enough to turn heads at The Line of Best Fit, DIY Magazine, Dork Magazine, Under The Radar, Rolling Stone UK and more. Their 2025 debut EP ‘Circus’ is closing in on 4 million streams on Spotify, with BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and BBC Introducing all lending their support (including a Track of the Week nod from the latter).
On the live side, sold-out headline shows at Corsica Studios, The Lexington and Peckham Audio have been building the band’s reputation largely through word of mouth — no small feat — alongside support runs with Dove Ellis, PORIJ, Bleach Lab and Panic Shack.
Pollyanna is out now via Broke Records. More news on that forthcoming project is on the way.
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