ALOHA HOME ACRES OUT NOW ON POLYVINYL!

Read what has been said about Aloha:

"Like a computer geek with a romantic streak, Ohio's Aloha straddle the line between trad songcraft and proggy virtuosity." - Entertainment Weekly
"It's prog without pretense, pop with a brain; every perfectly recorded note is necessary in order to propel itself into the next, leaving it impossible to focus on any particular instrument or voice without being immediately and happily drawn to another." - Under The Radar

If 2007's Light Works EP was Aloha showing restraint, Home Acres is their big rock record. Thunderous rhythms, bigger guitars, a more prominent role for the marimba - its a tonal shift, but a welcome one. - Alternative Press

The best bits aspire to an Animal Collectivecum-R.E.M. dream-weave, well suited for watching sunlight roll across your bedroom wall. - Spin

Bio: Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works (2007) with a powerful record that shows the band unbound by past influences and boldly stepping out of the shadows. Written initially through a private band blog, Home Acres is a project three years in the making.

Home Acres pushes the tempos and dials up the guitars, with the band's slow-burn intensity sometimes overflowing into huge moments. But even as the energy surges, Aloha casts an otherworldly glow, serving up ambience and attack with equal measure.

Album opener "Building a Fire" pairs gritty, persistent bass and drums with celestial, elusive melodies. An explosion of drums and a Peter Hook-high bass riff leads "Moonless March" into a minor-key catharsis. As the album hits its head-nodding, toe-tapping stride, you begin to realize that there's darkness lurking under Tony Cavallario's luminous melodies. In "White Wind," ethereal harmonies stoke the flames as an era burns to the ground. Everywhere things seem to be slipping away, fading from view, going in and out of focus. Fuzzed-out marimbas, reverb-soaked organs and floating strings decorate wistful, chiming guitar chords while Cale Parks pounds away, powering the proceedings from behind the kit.

Lyrically, Home Acres (named for a quaint old suburb of Rochester, NY) tries to sort through the wreckage of the Great Lakes region and a way of life. Left abandoned "waiting for a getaway car that never came" in the record's arena-rock-by-way-of-Silver Apples closer "Ruins," we re left to think that maybe we ought to have dreamt bigger and fought the urge to disengage. A suggestion that Aloha has taken to heart for its biggest, brightest record to date.

Aloha Tour Dates
April 09 - Princeton, NJ @ Terrace Club
April 10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fung Necktie
April 12 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub
April 13 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
April 14 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
April 15 - Washington, DC @ DC9
April 17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
April 18 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East
April 20 - Buffalo, NY @ Soundlab
April 21 - Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room
April 22 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
April 23 - Cincinatti, OH @ Contemporary Arts Center
April 24 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
April 25 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Brillobox