Aluminum - 'Fully Beat' limited pale blue coloured vinyl LP

The relatively short life of San Francisco’s Aluminum has so far yielded a single (Spinning Backwards, 2020) and an EP (Windowpane, 2022), but their debut LP, Fully Beat, overflows with tenured confidence and a singular style that deftly comprises shoegaze, big beat, and jangle pop. With influences ranging from Orbital, to Wipers, to The Avalanches and Sly and the Family Stone, theirs is a multifaceted take on established forms, fed through fuzz and led by honeyed, male-female vocal harmonies from Bay Area post-punk veterans Marc Leyda (of Wild Moth) and Ryann Gonsalves (of Torrey).

Tracklisting -

01. Smile

02. Always Here, Never There

03. Behind My Mouth

04. HaHa

05. Pulp

06. Beat

07. Everything

08. Call An Angel

09. Birds Flew Here

10. Upside Down