Eva Moolchan, better known as Sneaks, is an American
spoken word
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and
post-punk
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musician from
Washington, D. C.
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According to ''
NME
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''s Jordan Bassett, "she favours short, sharp, effortlessly cool compositions that worm their way into your consciousness without breaking a sweat."
Biography
Moolchan was born and raised in
Silver Spring,
Maryland
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. She formed the band
Shitstains with Katie Alice Greer, in which Moolchan sang and played guitar and Greer played drums. Moolchan went on to participate in Blood, a
noise music
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project, and the Young Trynas, in which she played
bass. She then began her solo career as "Sneaks" while attending the
Maryland Institute College of Art
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in
Baltimore
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. Her solo debut recording was the cassette ''Sneaks'', originally released in 2014 on the independent
Sister Polygon Records
Sister Polygon Records was an independent record label run by the band Priests. The label was based in Washington, DC, and released music by Priests, Downtown Boys, Pinkwash, Knife Wife, and Shady Hawkins.
History
Priests created the label i ...
imprint. In 2015, ''Sneaks'' was reissued by the French record label Danger Records as an
LP under the title ''Gymnastics''. She then signed with
Merge Records
Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expande ...
, which reissued ''Gymnastics'' again in 2016. Her second studio album, ''It's a Myth'', was released on Merge in March 2017. It was followed by ''Highway Hypnosis'', which was released in January 2019, also on Merge.
''Highway Hypnosis'' was produced by Carlos Hernandez, Tony Seltzer, and Tewadaj Eva Moolchan.
Discography
*''Sneaks'' (
Sister Polygon cassette, 2014)
*''Gymnastics'' (Danger, 2015)
*''It's a Myth'' (
Merge
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Concepts
* Merge (traffic), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road
* Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
* Merger (politics), the comb ...
, 2017)
*''Highway Hypnosis'' (Merge, 2019)
*''Happy Birthday'' (Merge, 2020)
*''The Eva EP'' (Merge, 2022)
Notes
References
Living people
Singers from Washington, D.C.
Merge Records artists
People from Silver Spring, Maryland
Maryland Institute College of Art alumni
American spoken word artists
American post-punk musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
American punk rock bass guitarists
Women bass guitarists
Women in punk
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