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VoyAager

by Aa (BIG A Little a)

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1.
Promsac 03:11
2.
Drug Mom 03:12
3.
Mossy 04:13
4.
Pug Pit 02:51
5.
Fish Phone 02:56
6.
Koosh 02:32
7.
Glow Wreath 05:00
8.
Gowntower 04:16
9.
Eyebells 03:08

about

With “VoyAager,” Aa (“Big A little a”) - one of the quintessential house bands of Brooklyn’s mid-aughts loft party/DIY scene - have returned with their first US release since 2007. The heady new album, out on Northern Spy Records, expands dramatically on the band’s primordial polyrhythms + noise palette to embrace lush electronic psychedelia, enveloping vocal textures, and even unexpected, glittering explosions of pop melodicism. The thunderous orchestra of live drums that has always been Aa’s hallmark is still very much foregrounded, but frequently hybridized with digital beats and concussive blasts of electronic percussion.

While clearly in dialogue with contemporaries like Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, Parts & Labor/Dan Friel, HEALTH, Dan Deacon, and others, Aa’s continuing evolution has mapped out an utterly singular course. “VoyAager” takes listeners on a journey across diversely unique sonic worlds – from the ecstatic drum workouts of “Glow Wreath” and “Fish Phone,” to the menacing, post-industrial grind of “Mossy” and “Gowntower,” to the transcendently odd electropop of “Koosh” and “Eyebells,” and other strange, previously uncharted territories.

Painstakingly produced by the band with long-time collaborator Billy Pavone and mastered by drummer Josh Bonati of Bonati Mastering, “VoyAager” works both as deep headphone listening and as blisteringly loud, heavy-in-the-red avant-rock. Recorded over several years in Brooklyn, New Jersey, Los Angeles, and southern France, and following tours of Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the album serves as evidence that Aa never went away – and that the band has created its own, vibrantly fecund lane that will continue generating distinctive new mutant strains of contemporary music for years to come.

credits

released January 28, 2014

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“The official dance band for the post- apocalypse. Meet you at the riot.” - Christopher Weingarten, Senior Editor, Spin

“Not just noise, not just drums, but something that reaches ecstatic, bombastic heights” - Pitchfork

Ladies and gentlemen, we are drumming in space.” — San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Utilizing three drum kits and electronically treated moans and chants, Aa weave weird spells and conjure up eerie atmospheres. They are a very hot and wet handful of indescribability indeed.” — The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

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Aa (BIG A Little a) Brooklyn, New York

DIY maximalism ft. multi-drummer beatscapes, digital psychedelia and song

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