"Feelin' A Rise" Is Pimmer at Full Speed

Pimmer has been moving fast. The Boston indie rock outfit formed in 2024 and has already released enough music to make most bands feel sluggish — with TRANS AM, their new seven-track EP, they're showing no signs of slowing down.

The EP follows I Wish I Could Care, last year's LP that drew real attention for its urgency and melodic sharpness. TRANS AM doesn't break from that blueprint so much as push harder into it — the hooks are bigger, the energy is higher, and the whole thing runs on a kind of forward momentum that most bands spend years trying to find.

Lead single "Feelin' A Rise" is the right entry point. The drums establish the pace immediately and hold it, giving the song a locked-in center that the guitars open up around — big amps, wide and unguarded, the kind of sound that rewards volume. It's melodic but not soft about it, landing in the territory where Bob Mould's instinct for noise meets the Foo Fighters' sense of scale. The song shouldn't feel as effortless as it does, but that's kind of Pimmer's whole thing.

That starts with Sanford Schaffer. The band's singer and primary songwriter has music spilling out of him — three releases in eighteen months, and nothing sounds like it was wrung out of anyone. TRANS AM is another entry in what's becoming a genuinely impressive catalog, and the pace of it only makes the quality more striking. Whatever he's tapped into, he's not close to done with it.

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