With a wide span of influences and a focus on content over sheen, Santiago transcends the usual indie-rock cliché of the weed-trimmer hairstyle and hi-hat backbeat. Often fiery, sometimes tender, but always too goddamn loud.

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The acclaim keeps pouring in for Santiagoâs debut album Entertainment For Man And Horse, a solid 36-minute blast of idealistic rock ân roll on the bandâs own record label, City Sound Inertia. Recorded in just two days, the album showcases a first-draft sense of immediacy, the kind of spontaneous, energy-fueled unhinging of bottled talent.

Santiagoâs are the songs providing snapshots of our accelerated lives: the independence vs. desperation of living alone, throwing cares out the passenger side window, falling in love with cocktail ennui, stalking jazz musicians in downtown Oakland, pleas to superstition, curses to old lovers, and the stillness that comes with each crossroad.

Such a confident and action-packed debut can often cause sudden implosion, but Entertainment For Man And Horse is the catalyst that sparked what promises to be a brilliant career for this shockingly versatile California trio.

âThese are the songs of mid-adolescence, of long afternoons, road trips through cornfields, and suction-style kisses.â â Punk Planet

âOne of the more intelligent and gifted local bands to take a Sonoma County stage in the past several years.â - The Press Democrat

âSantiagoâs music is what all music should be like â it takes you to the forgotten places in your mind, or maybe gives you a slight peek into someone elseâs.â - Nielzine