EXILE REPRESENTS \u2018EXPANSIVE, SOPHISTICATED, AND STYLISTICALLY DIVERSE\u2019 DEPARTURE FOR BOSTON BUZZ BAND ALOUD ON 3RD INDIE ROCK ALBUM<\/p>\n
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MUSICAL HONEYMOON ON COAST-TO-COAST FALL U.S. TOUR<\/p>\n
See the new video ‘Old Soldier’ here:<\/p>\n
<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\u201cIf this much of a departure in the studio produced such a rich and interesting result,<\/p>\ntheir always-electric live performance will be all the more memorable.\u201d – The Deli<\/p>\nBOSTON — With a daring new sound that\u2019s quickly brought a whole new wave of hometown media acclaim, dynamic young indie rock band ALOUD is proud to unleash its third full-length album to the rest of the country and bring the Beantown buzz to the rest of the U.S. on the band\u2019s first-ever coast-to-coast tour.<\/p>\nExile, released October 12, 2010 on Lemon Merchant Records, represents a sea change for ALOUD that the Boston Globe hailed as \u201ctheir most expansive, sophisticated, and stylistically diverse work to date.\u201d The Boston Phoenix said Exile \u201c(provides) us with the kind of sharp, literary-minded rock passion we’ve come to expect\u201d from ALOUD and called the new album \u201ca stunning, multifaceted opus\u201d from a band that \u201cexudes confidence, and great things are still to come.\u201d<\/p>\nFollowing a boisterous, sold-out Boston CD release party in which the band\u2019s \u201charmonious-yet-boisterous psychedelic pop-rock sound was often augmented by the ambient strings of the Exile Orchestra\u201d (Boston Phoenix), ALOUD kicks off its U.S. tour with a pair of CMJ Music Marathon showcases in New York (Oct. 22-23), and finishes two months and over 50 dates later in late December. Along the way, ALOUD will be compiling a tour diary for Performer magazine, which praised the band for its \u201cfiery songwriting\u201d in a December 2009 cover story.<\/p>\nTo make it all possible, just-married husband-wife bandleaders Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa cleaned out their apartment and surrender their material possessions to set forth on a musical honeymoon with band members Charles Murphy (bass) and James Willetts (drums) in tow. The tour is being financed in part by the $5150 raised through 98 backers in a Kickstarter campaign designed also to fund the recording of Exile.<\/p>\nExile is ALOUD\u2019s most sophisticated and experimental album to date, showcasing their new-found love of orchestration, Sgt. Pepper-like production, and rich, lyrical imagery. The new sound was created over a year in the studio after Henry and Jen lost their original rhythm section and with it, the screaming guitars and crashing cymbals that had previously been two of ALOUD\u2019s greatest assets. They\u2019ve been replaced by acoustic and strange sounding guitars, string instruments, horns, pared down drum kit, finger snaps, handclaps and sound effects. Many tempos are much slower, revealing a previously unheard of intimacy and vulnerability, especially in Henry and Jen\u2019s opulent vocal harmonies. Exile is a beautiful and strange collection of songs, featuring often-unfulfilled, complex characters coming to terms with bleak circumstances, while searching for hope and relief in unlikely places.<\/p>\nThe mid-tempo single \u201cOld Soldier\u201d starts with a whisper and grows into a brilliant, psychedelic explosion of sound and lush instrumentation, including marching drums, euphonium, trumpets, strings and mandolin, and Henry and Jen\u2019s opulent vocal harmonies. In the love-turned-death ballad, \u201cTo Die At Sea\u201d, Jen sings longingly over an acoustic guitar and lush string quartet. Title track \u201cExile In The Night\u201d is dominated by a Latin-tinged rhythm, ghostly soundscapes and a haunting melody. The song was heavily influenced by the music of Feist and the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas (the celebrated, exiled Cuban poet).<\/p>\nALOUD UPCOMING CONCERT DATES:<\/p>\n10\/22\/10 – Beast of the Northeast, CMJ Day Party @ Arlene’s Grocery, NYC\n10\/23\/10 – Official CMJ Showcase @ Lit, NYC\n10\/24\/10 \u2013 Howler\u2019s Coyote Caf\u00e9, Pittsburgh, PA\n10\/25\/10 \u2013 Barley\u2019s Pub, Youngstown, OH\n10\/26\/10 – Double Door, Chicago, IL\n10\/27\/10 – The Frequency, Madison, WI<\/p>\n10\/28\/10 – The Lift, Dubuque, IA\n10\/29\/10 – Pizza Shoppe Collective, Omaha, NE\n10\/30\/10 – Coffee Rules, Hays, KS<\/p>\n11\/2\/10 \u2013 Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO\n11\/2\/10 – Astroland, Boulder, CO\n11\/3\/10 – Moe’s, Denver, CO\n11\/5\/10 – The Woodshed, Salt Lake City, UT\n11\/6\/10 \u2013 First National Bar, Pocatello, ID\n11\/8\/10 – Reef, Boise, ID\n11\/10\/10 – Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA\n11\/11\/10 – Caf\u00e9 Venus, Seattle, WA\n11\/12\/10 – Backspace, Portland, OR\n11\/13\/10 – Diablo Lounge, Eugene, OR\n11\/16\/10 – The Mint, Los Angeles, CA\n11\/17\/10 – Blue Cafe, Huntington Beach, CA\n11\/18\/10 \u2013 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA\n11\/19\/10 – Mr. Rick’s, Avila Beach, CA\n11\/20\/10 – The Bunkhouse, Las Vegas, NV\n11\/27\/10 – Cowgirl, Santa Fe, NM<\/p>\n11\/28\/10 – The 806, Amarillo, TX<\/p>\n12\/2\/10 – Stafford Main Street, Bryan, TX <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXILE REPRESENTS \u2018EXPANSIVE, SOPHISTICATED, AND STYLISTICALLY DIVERSE\u2019 DEPARTURE FOR BOSTON BUZZ BAND ALOUD ON 3RD INDIE ROCK ALBUM CLICK IMAGE 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\u201cIf this much of a departure in the studio produced such a rich and interesting result,<\/p>\n
their always-electric live performance will be all the more memorable.\u201d – The Deli<\/p>\n
BOSTON — With a daring new sound that\u2019s quickly brought a whole new wave of hometown media acclaim, dynamic young indie rock band ALOUD is proud to unleash its third full-length album to the rest of the country and bring the Beantown buzz to the rest of the U.S. on the band\u2019s first-ever coast-to-coast tour.<\/p>\n
Exile, released October 12, 2010 on Lemon Merchant Records, represents a sea change for ALOUD that the Boston Globe hailed as \u201ctheir most expansive, sophisticated, and stylistically diverse work to date.\u201d The Boston Phoenix said Exile \u201c(provides) us with the kind of sharp, literary-minded rock passion we’ve come to expect\u201d from ALOUD and called the new album \u201ca stunning, multifaceted opus\u201d from a band that \u201cexudes confidence, and great things are still to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following a boisterous, sold-out Boston CD release party in which the band\u2019s \u201charmonious-yet-boisterous psychedelic pop-rock sound was often augmented by the ambient strings of the Exile Orchestra\u201d (Boston Phoenix), ALOUD kicks off its U.S. tour with a pair of CMJ Music Marathon showcases in New York (Oct. 22-23), and finishes two months and over 50 dates later in late December. Along the way, ALOUD will be compiling a tour diary for Performer magazine, which praised the band for its \u201cfiery songwriting\u201d in a December 2009 cover story.<\/p>\n
To make it all possible, just-married husband-wife bandleaders Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa cleaned out their apartment and surrender their material possessions to set forth on a musical honeymoon with band members Charles Murphy (bass) and James Willetts (drums) in tow. The tour is being financed in part by the $5150 raised through 98 backers in a Kickstarter campaign designed also to fund the recording of Exile.<\/p>\n
Exile is ALOUD\u2019s most sophisticated and experimental album to date, showcasing their new-found love of orchestration, Sgt. Pepper-like production, and rich, lyrical imagery. The new sound was created over a year in the studio after Henry and Jen lost their original rhythm section and with it, the screaming guitars and crashing cymbals that had previously been two of ALOUD\u2019s greatest assets. They\u2019ve been replaced by acoustic and strange sounding guitars, string instruments, horns, pared down drum kit, finger snaps, handclaps and sound effects. Many tempos are much slower, revealing a previously unheard of intimacy and vulnerability, especially in Henry and Jen\u2019s opulent vocal harmonies. Exile is a beautiful and strange collection of songs, featuring often-unfulfilled, complex characters coming to terms with bleak circumstances, while searching for hope and relief in unlikely places.<\/p>\n
The mid-tempo single \u201cOld Soldier\u201d starts with a whisper and grows into a brilliant, psychedelic explosion of sound and lush instrumentation, including marching drums, euphonium, trumpets, strings and mandolin, and Henry and Jen\u2019s opulent vocal harmonies. In the love-turned-death ballad, \u201cTo Die At Sea\u201d, Jen sings longingly over an acoustic guitar and lush string quartet. Title track \u201cExile In The Night\u201d is dominated by a Latin-tinged rhythm, ghostly soundscapes and a haunting melody. The song was heavily influenced by the music of Feist and the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas (the celebrated, exiled Cuban poet).<\/p>\n
ALOUD UPCOMING CONCERT DATES:<\/p>\n
10\/22\/10 – Beast of the Northeast, CMJ Day Party @ Arlene’s Grocery, NYC\n10\/23\/10 – Official CMJ Showcase @ Lit, NYC\n10\/24\/10 \u2013 Howler\u2019s Coyote Caf\u00e9, Pittsburgh, PA\n10\/25\/10 \u2013 Barley\u2019s Pub, Youngstown, OH\n10\/26\/10 – Double Door, Chicago, IL\n10\/27\/10 – The Frequency, Madison, WI<\/p>\n
10\/28\/10 – The Lift, Dubuque, IA\n10\/29\/10 – Pizza Shoppe Collective, Omaha, NE\n10\/30\/10 – Coffee Rules, Hays, KS<\/p>\n
11\/2\/10 \u2013 Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO\n11\/2\/10 – Astroland, Boulder, CO\n11\/3\/10 – Moe’s, Denver, CO\n11\/5\/10 – The Woodshed, Salt Lake City, UT\n11\/6\/10 \u2013 First National Bar, Pocatello, ID\n11\/8\/10 – Reef, Boise, ID\n11\/10\/10 – Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA\n11\/11\/10 – Caf\u00e9 Venus, Seattle, WA\n11\/12\/10 – Backspace, Portland, OR\n11\/13\/10 – Diablo Lounge, Eugene, OR\n11\/16\/10 – The Mint, Los Angeles, CA\n11\/17\/10 – Blue Cafe, Huntington Beach, CA\n11\/18\/10 \u2013 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA\n11\/19\/10 – Mr. Rick’s, Avila Beach, CA\n11\/20\/10 – The Bunkhouse, Las Vegas, NV\n11\/27\/10 – Cowgirl, Santa Fe, NM<\/p>\n
11\/28\/10 – The 806, Amarillo, TX<\/p>\n
12\/2\/10 – Stafford Main Street, Bryan, TX <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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