Halloween, Alaska

Add Date: March 10

Artist: Halloween, Alaska

Album: Champagne Downtown

Label: East Side Digital

Genre: Indie/Pop

Comments: Creating semi-electronic, synth-driven indie-pop (twice featured on the OC), Halloween, Alaska returns with Champagne Downtown, a melodic and precise record well-worth the three-year wait. Described by All-Music Guide as follows: “A lot of bands claim not to fit any preexisting pop music genre, but few can back up such claims as convincingly as Minneapolis-based Halloween, Alaska…jittery-jangly and swooningly melodic…sonically large and weirdly cathartic…Highly recommended”. Start with tracks 3, 5, and 9. 

Track 2 is bleeped-out DNP--fine to play, but as a heads up, the beep is very loud.