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CMU Approved
Approved: AlaskaAlaska
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 1 June 2017
The latest signing to Marathon Artists, London sextet AlaskaAlaska have released two tracks from a forthcoming EP, ‘Bitter Winter’ and ‘Familiar Ways’. Both show an exciting new band with a healthy disregard for genre boundaries.
Lead track ‘Bitter Winter’ is particularly pleasing in its smart use of rhythm to work different instruments against each other. The band work hard to create the calm that appears on the surface. ‘Familiar Ways’ conversely uses a simple rhythm as a starting point and gradually builds its melody on top of it.
If you didn’t catch the band at The Great Escape or Dot To Dot last month, you can see them twice in London in June. They’ll play Hoxton Hall on 13 Jun, then the Ace Hotel on 20 Jun.
