
Pimmer - Halcyon 303
Blood Makes Noise: Interview
PIMMER is a Boston-based rock band established in 2024 by Sanford Schaffer. Sanford is also the one responsible for writing, singing, performing and producing the brand of crystal-crunch-noise-pop songs inspired primarily by Dylan and Petty, with influences from the late-70s Pat Metheny Group and REM’s Murmur sessions. There were other joint-ventures over the years, most notably BARN–an alt-country project which garnered consistently high praise in the early 2000s–until the band’s severance.
Thanks to the generosity of a great friend, fan and recording studio owner, David “Ducky” Powell (a 3-time Grammy Award-winning engineer), Sanford became a studio rat able to maintain a constant output of music. Newer tracks were done at Wooly Mammoth Studios done by David Minehan (The Replacements, The Neighborhoods) after Powell’s passing. At the time Pimmer released the single “I Loved That Day (Sunshine Flower)” on Mint 400 Records in May 2024, there were roughly 100 studio recordings in the catalog. Most of the recordings have never before been heard by anyone. These songs draw inspiration from Pavement, Petty, The Clash, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Oasis, Gin Blossoms, The Killers, The Jam, and the Psychedelic Furs, whose single “Love My Way” is included on the LP. According to the new label, “Pimmer is one of those diamonds in the rough you don’t hear about very often where a mad genius was at work for years unsure exactly how to deliver his art to the world…” That’s about to change…