Record Review: Aloha - Home Acres
Written by Russ Crandall   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 05:41
This album chugs. In a good way. Aloha is a post-rock band that's been around since the late 1990s, and I've followed them for quite some time now. They used to be "that post-rock band with a vibraphone", but they stopped using it in earnest a few albums back; now, they're just a plain old post-rock band. But the best part of this band is that they still rock like it's 2002. In other words, they've continued that layered, drifty, and unconventional post-rock sound capitalized by bands like Minus the Bear, American Football, and to a lesser extent Cursive, well after these bands disbanded or altered their sound.

It's refreshing to hear a band further refine a sound that's been relatively abandoned. Second track "Moonless March" is the perfect example of Aloha sticking to their guns to dramatic effect. The song starts out fast and continues the pace throughout, while changing melodies often and with a deft precision. For a band whose members live in different cities scattered throughout the East Coast, this is a concerted and carefully orchestrated effort, and it's my favorite album by them in several years. Every track has something worth paying attention to, be it an interesting vocal hook or their always-excellent instrumentation. If you're looking for something a little off the beaten path, but rewarding nonetheless, you'll probably like Home Acres.



Release date: March 9th, 2010
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