Aloha's Little Windows Cut Right Through Streaming At Stereogum
Aloha's Little Windows Cut Right Through Streaming At StereogumNew Album Due May 6 via Polyvinyl RecordsBrooklyn, Washington D.C, Cleveland and Chicago Shows Announced 
photo credit: Suzanne Price
"A rhythmically rich album bent on grand pop gestures and airy atmospheres" - NPR
"As textured and melancholy as we’ve come to expect yet unlike anything in Aloha’s
oeuvre." - Stereogum
Stream: Little Windows Cut Right Through via Stereogum
Aloha will release Little Windows Cut Right Through on May 6 via Polyvinyl Records. Stereogum is streaming the album in full ahead of Friday's release date. Stereogum says, "Aloha have always inhabited their own space within the indie rock continuum. They play around with jazz, pop, and post-rock in a way that aligns them with the foundational Midwest emo bands that also call Polyvinyl their label home, but Aloha’s approach is softer and lighter, plaintive rather than explosive. Beauty is prized over howling catharsis. Rather than bashed out in a basement, their music always seems to have been meticulously crafted in a studio — or, like, a laboratory decked out with an array of synths, guitars, and melodic percussion." Little Windows Cut Right Through is available to order now on vinyl, CD and digitally in the Polyvinyl Records Online Store.
Aloha has announced several midwest shows taking place in September along with two east coast dates in October. The upcoming tour includes stops in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn. All upcoming shows are listed below.
Restless by nature, Aloha has never made the same album twice. And if they’ve earned a reputation as a cult band, it’s because each record creates its own aural world, spawning a new set of devotees.
Aloha traffics in an introspective style of rock, vivid but melancholy, both fragile and forceful. Not difficult, but also not obvious. On Little Windows Cut Right Through, the band follows its prog influences into the early 80s when Fairlights, Linn Drums and Prophets pushed ambient textures and straight lines into music that had grown bloated and unfocused. This invigorating shift highlights what Aloha does best -- driving rhythms behind a matrix of interlocking mallets, keys and guitars. A kind of post-rock in the service of its heartfelt-but-never-precious songs.
Lyrically, Little Windows offers dispatches from the void. The title comes from singer Tony Cavallario’s attempt to write the album in character, yet finding evidence of himself in each song. It’s a story of self-doubt and reflection, where small truths breaks through a dark, sometimes dangerous solitude.
Opener “Signal Drift” begins out-of-sync, crooning above unsteady waves of sound which soon give way to a wistful flutes and pounding marimbas, foreshadowing redemption. Radiant ballad “Flight Risk” pleads for a chance to make things right, propelled by a frantic pattern of wood blocks, cymbal crashes, ratchets — the sound of an orchestral percussion section going off script and into its feelings. The brooding, cinematic “Swinging for the Fences” enlists eerie arpeggios in the defense of sadness as a social good. The bright synth-pop of “I Heard You Laughing” closes out the album on a defiant high note with a dose of self-acceptance and relief.
Little Windows Cut Right Through is the perfect introduction to Aloha for the unfamiliar listener, while longtime fans will be glad to find the band consistently unsatisfied, continually seeking.
Aloha Tour Dates
09.22 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
09.23 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall10.07 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel10.08 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
Little Window Cut Right Through Track List
1. Signal Drift2. Faraway Eyes3. Ocean Street4. Moon Man5. Flight Risk6. 100 Million7. Marigold8. Don't Wanna Win 9. Swinging For The Fences10. I Heard You Laughing
photo credit: Suzanne Price"A rhythmically rich album bent on grand pop gestures and airy atmospheres" - NPR
"As textured and melancholy as we’ve come to expect yet unlike anything in Aloha’s
oeuvre." - Stereogum
Stream: Little Windows Cut Right Through via Stereogum
Aloha will release Little Windows Cut Right Through on May 6 via Polyvinyl Records. Stereogum is streaming the album in full ahead of Friday's release date. Stereogum says, "Aloha have always inhabited their own space within the indie rock continuum. They play around with jazz, pop, and post-rock in a way that aligns them with the foundational Midwest emo bands that also call Polyvinyl their label home, but Aloha’s approach is softer and lighter, plaintive rather than explosive. Beauty is prized over howling catharsis. Rather than bashed out in a basement, their music always seems to have been meticulously crafted in a studio — or, like, a laboratory decked out with an array of synths, guitars, and melodic percussion." Little Windows Cut Right Through is available to order now on vinyl, CD and digitally in the Polyvinyl Records Online Store.
Aloha has announced several midwest shows taking place in September along with two east coast dates in October. The upcoming tour includes stops in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn. All upcoming shows are listed below.
Restless by nature, Aloha has never made the same album twice. And if they’ve earned a reputation as a cult band, it’s because each record creates its own aural world, spawning a new set of devotees.
Aloha traffics in an introspective style of rock, vivid but melancholy, both fragile and forceful. Not difficult, but also not obvious. On Little Windows Cut Right Through, the band follows its prog influences into the early 80s when Fairlights, Linn Drums and Prophets pushed ambient textures and straight lines into music that had grown bloated and unfocused. This invigorating shift highlights what Aloha does best -- driving rhythms behind a matrix of interlocking mallets, keys and guitars. A kind of post-rock in the service of its heartfelt-but-never-precious songs.
Lyrically, Little Windows offers dispatches from the void. The title comes from singer Tony Cavallario’s attempt to write the album in character, yet finding evidence of himself in each song. It’s a story of self-doubt and reflection, where small truths breaks through a dark, sometimes dangerous solitude.
Opener “Signal Drift” begins out-of-sync, crooning above unsteady waves of sound which soon give way to a wistful flutes and pounding marimbas, foreshadowing redemption. Radiant ballad “Flight Risk” pleads for a chance to make things right, propelled by a frantic pattern of wood blocks, cymbal crashes, ratchets — the sound of an orchestral percussion section going off script and into its feelings. The brooding, cinematic “Swinging for the Fences” enlists eerie arpeggios in the defense of sadness as a social good. The bright synth-pop of “I Heard You Laughing” closes out the album on a defiant high note with a dose of self-acceptance and relief.
Little Windows Cut Right Through is the perfect introduction to Aloha for the unfamiliar listener, while longtime fans will be glad to find the band consistently unsatisfied, continually seeking.
Aloha Tour Dates
09.22 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
09.23 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall10.07 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel10.08 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
Little Window Cut Right Through Track List
1. Signal Drift2. Faraway Eyes3. Ocean Street4. Moon Man5. Flight Risk6. 100 Million7. Marigold8. Don't Wanna Win 9. Swinging For The Fences10. I Heard You Laughing
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