First Listen: Sneaks, 'Highway Hypnosis'

For a repeated sentence can become a roadmap — a means of getting where she wants to go. Back in 2015, when she was establishing her solo project after playing bass in a string of D.C. punk bands, as being "like a mantra in a way. Everything is done for me." An aid to concentration, a mantra can offer transformation — clarity, release, growth — through repetition. Throughout her first two albums, 2016's (an extended version of, Sneaks paced the delivery of her mantra-like lyrics to the thrum of her bass and drum machine, looping staccato lines over bite-sized blasts of post-punk.