INTRODUCING: sticktype Brings Deeply Emotional Performance For Debut Single “Hand Me Down”
It is abundantly clear from the initial strained tone in sticktype’s vocals on “Hand Me Down” that the multimedia artist’s entry point into music was “singing covers as an emotional output”.
The DMV-born and Shanghai/Maryland-raised singer/songwriter’s official foray into releasing music gives us a track as gentle as it is vulnerable. Carried by a dangling acoustic guitar loop and a powerful drum rack, sticktype muses on his “long and awkward search for self”. The vocals sound like they were captured a mere inch from the microphone as the singer turns a phrase so unfamiliar yet relatable: “stay loose, don’t gray down”.
What is most enjoyably peculiar about this song is its structure, or lack thereof. As the instrumental dwindles to a halt, sticktype still has more to say. The vocal delivery on “Hand Me Down” somehow perfectly straddles the line of sounding conceived in the moment yet also carefully premeditated.
sticktype will unleash a full EP sometime in late summer 2022, but you can stream “Hand Me Down” right now, right here:
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