East Side Digital recording group Halloween, Alaska released their first new music in more than three years "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" - this week on April 7th.
Having earned widespread acclaim for its atmospheric brand of synth-driven indie, "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" sees Halloween, Alaska crafting its most distinctive and disarming set to date. Songs such as "In Order" and "Gone With The Wind" are complex and thoughtful, rich with simmering textures and literate lyricism. Melding an expansive range of inventive sounds with anthemic indie-rock hooks, "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" straddles the boundary between the electronic and the organic to create a novel rethink of what pop music can mean in a new millennium.
Halloween, Alaska is comprised of James Diers (voice, keyboards, guitar), Jacob Hanson (guitar, keyboards, voice), Matthew Friesen (bass, sampler) and David King (acoustic and electronic drums) - the latter also serving as the enigmatic drummer with modernist jazz giants, The Bad Plus. "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" was recorded by Ev and mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Tchad Blake (Peter Gabriel, American Music Club, Latin Playboys).
Halloween, Alaska will be a spotlighted artist on MySpace Music, the world's leading online music portal, this weekend. The band has also charted at college radio and is in CMJ's Top 100 with song, "In Order," will be hometown radio station, The Current's, song of the day on April 23rd. Halloween, Alaska's emotive verve and electro-organic poise is so accomplished, you'd think you'd got your hands on The Blue Nile's mislaid comeback album," declared MOJO in it four-starred rave. Minneapolis' City Pages says of new one, "At once melodious, disharmonious, soothing, and jarring, 'Champagne Downtown' explores the notions and noises of American luxury, and what that phrase, 'American luxury,' means-if it means anything at all."
Tour Dates Are As Follows:
April 8 Rock Island, IL Daytrotter Session
April 8 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
April 9 Eu Claire, WI House of Rock
April 10 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
April 14 Duluth, MN University of MN
May 8 Evanston, IL Space
May 9 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
May 10 Philadelphia, PA M Room
May 11 Boston, MA Harpers Ferry
May 12 Arlington, VA IOTA
May 15 New York, NY Joe's Pub
Having earned widespread acclaim for its atmospheric brand of synth-driven indie, "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" sees Halloween, Alaska crafting its most distinctive and disarming set to date. Songs such as "In Order" and "Gone With The Wind" are complex and thoughtful, rich with simmering textures and literate lyricism. Melding an expansive range of inventive sounds with anthemic indie-rock hooks, "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" straddles the boundary between the electronic and the organic to create a novel rethink of what pop music can mean in a new millennium.
Halloween, Alaska is comprised of James Diers (voice, keyboards, guitar), Jacob Hanson (guitar, keyboards, voice), Matthew Friesen (bass, sampler) and David King (acoustic and electronic drums) - the latter also serving as the enigmatic drummer with modernist jazz giants, The Bad Plus. "CHAMPAGNE DOWNTOWN" was recorded by Ev and mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Tchad Blake (Peter Gabriel, American Music Club, Latin Playboys).
Halloween, Alaska will be a spotlighted artist on MySpace Music, the world's leading online music portal, this weekend. The band has also charted at college radio and is in CMJ's Top 100 with song, "In Order," will be hometown radio station, The Current's, song of the day on April 23rd. Halloween, Alaska's emotive verve and electro-organic poise is so accomplished, you'd think you'd got your hands on The Blue Nile's mislaid comeback album," declared MOJO in it four-starred rave. Minneapolis' City Pages says of new one, "At once melodious, disharmonious, soothing, and jarring, 'Champagne Downtown' explores the notions and noises of American luxury, and what that phrase, 'American luxury,' means-if it means anything at all."
Tour Dates Are As Follows:
April 8 Rock Island, IL Daytrotter Session
April 8 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
April 9 Eu Claire, WI House of Rock
April 10 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
April 14 Duluth, MN University of MN
May 8 Evanston, IL Space
May 9 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
May 10 Philadelphia, PA M Room
May 11 Boston, MA Harpers Ferry
May 12 Arlington, VA IOTA
May 15 New York, NY Joe's Pub
