Sandy Skye Netburn released her debut album ‘Issues’ on her 18th birthday last October, and the new self-directed video for “Tunnel at the End of the Light” brings fresh attention to one of its standout moments. The Long Island singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer wrote, recorded, directed, filmed, and edited the entire project herself, and the video is packed with Easter eggs and visual clues into her creative world. “This song is widely open to interpretation,” she says, “but I wrote it about finding the good in hard times.”
‘Issues’ is a 14-track record of acoustic Americana folk-pop protest songs, written and produced entirely by Netburn with a wry wit and theatrical sensibility that draws comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Nancy Wilson while remaining entirely her own. WoNoMagazine wrote that listening to her debut is “perhaps what people older than me experienced when they listened to Bob Dylan for the first time.” Worcester Magazine called her “an eternal flowerchild who sounds like a genuine product of the singer-songwriting, Summer of Love sixties,” with the caveat that she’s a Long Island teenager. That contradiction is exactly what makes the record interesting.
Netburn is a genuine multi-hyphenate, adding ventriloquism and a celebrity interview podcast series, Sandy & Friends, to her creative portfolio. She’s already drawn fans including The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Runaways’ Cherie Currie, who pulled her onstage to perform “Cherry Bomb” at the 2023 NorthEast ComicCon.
‘Issues’ is out now on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.