New York indie band Altopalo are getting listeners acclimated to their experimental sound with a duo of singles — “Wicker” and “Glow” — main as much as the discharge of their debut album frozenthere on Sept. 12 through Samedi Records.
The rollout to frozenthere has labored like an ever-expanding puzzle with every launch diverging drastically from its predecessor, always knocking the band’s calibration off and adjusting expectations for the way a whole work would coalesce their indefinable sound. It’s on the twin bundle of “Glow” and “Wicker” that the band breaks the chasm of unexplored alternatives huge open and the total image begins to become visible.
The two newest tracks tie the threads of Altopalo’s sonic palette along with the tinges of R&B, soul and pop filling out the meticulously constructed, cavernous rock soundscapes. They have by no means appeared extra grounded, partly as a result of band connecting the music to tangible settings and the human expertise.
“’Glow’ and ‘Wicker’ are arguably probably the most human tracks on frozenthere,” the band tells Billboard. “A fight around the dinner table that you can’t scrub out of your memory, a story that remains unfinished, and a big question about the legacy of our lives — people stuff.”
Though Altopalo creates music that may really feel ethereal to the purpose of being otherworldly, their actual trick is pulling their transformative concepts and sounds from the commonplace. The band exhibits a specificity within the visuals that encourage their songs in detailed descriptions that painting “Wicker” as feeling like “the dark stain on the walls of the inside of a wooden shack” whereas “Glow” might signify “a subject of flora in between breaths beneath an overcast sky.”
The quartet presents a refreshing problem to the confines of recent rock that illuminates that the best way to ascend the routine is simply by trying deeper.
Altopalo will host a launch present for frozenthere at Elsewhere Zone One in Brooklyn on Sept. 15. Tickets can be found now here.
Check out “Glow” and “Wicker” under.
