THE ALIENS
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LEMONADE
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THE ALIENS continue to explore the outer limits of sunshine pop, psychedelic rock and acid dipped electronics. These Aliens have history – between them they have been behind some of the most enthralling British music of the last decade. John Maclean and Robin Jones were members of the Beta Band, along with founding member Gordon Anderson aka Lone Pigeon. Epic psychedelic pop.
NME 4.5
“Incredible pschedelic stew, a joyride round the galaxy, The Aliens have landed”
The Times ****
“Gleeful psychedelic purists, timeless & optimistic” ,
Subba Culture
“A mesmeric, psych tinged folk-pop masterpiece”
Mojo ****
“A serene high”
Observer Music Monthly ****
“The Aliens have come up trumps, luna is a pschedelic delight”
The Word
“Startling moments, music for the 21st century”
The Sun 4/5
“Back & even Beta”
Artrocker
“Powerful antidote to angularity”
Plus LEMONADE
Lemonade played their first show with roughly 2 weeks of preparation in late 2005. The idea formed a month or so earlier when Alex Pasternak and Callan Clendenin were in Barcelona enjoying their time listening to Rai and Khaliji CDs they had bought at the Raval record shop “Nasifon”, laying on the beach drinking sodas, and going to squat raves until well after the sun came up. Collaborating with Ben Steidel upon their return, they mingled together crude technologies, battered percussion, live instruments, and limitless disparate influence, including: grime, early house and techno, samba, dancehall, island musics, and scary psychedelic noise. The show was mostly improvised, and ultimately a success with throngs of dancers mesmerized by their pulsing beats and clamorous crescendos.
Since that first show, Lemonade became a fixture in San Francisco’s underground, playing everything from basement shows to warehouses, dance clubs to DIY venues, art galleries and rooftops. Their eruptive and exhilarating live experience can be at times unnerving and chaotic, as well as transporting and blissful, but still manages to unify diverse crowds in rapturous euphoria.
In October of 2008, their self-titled debut album/ep, recorded by Chris Coady (TV on the Radio, Blonde Redhead, etc.) was released on True Panther Sounds. Days later they moved to Brooklyn.
Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC1 referred to them as “pure, agile, hedonistic pop music,” and Pitchfork rated their debut at an 8.3. Over the course of their career they have toured with such acts as Tussle, El Guincho, and Glasser, as well as provided local support to Modeselektor, Crystal Castles, Buraka Som Sistema, Andrew W.K., Gang Gang Dance, and many more
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