Allah-Las - Sirenas - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 . For Allah Las' fourth album, LAHS, the Los Angeles quartet turn their collective gaze toward unknown horizons. A record that prefers travel to time, LAHS transmits from a place not found on any map. While the West Coast mood and melodies from their previous work remain, LAHS looks through a wider lens, exploring the exotic, exciting essence of global folk, soul and downbeat.

He [Hartmut Lindemann] combines a finely spun, expressive tone with creative intelligence and effortless brilliance right up to the top notes where the viola often sounds like a violin. Supported by pianist Gunther Herzfeld with nimble improvisation, Lindemann improves on many a frivolous piece with his thoughtfulness, creating the right atmosphere for the CD title (named after a Debussy arrangement) Beau soir - a lovely evening. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Vinyl LP pressing. Includes . For the last 15 years, Allah-Las have alchemically melded surf rock washes with folk rock jangle and rock, building up their lauded music podcast, Reverberation Radio, and record tag, Calico Discos, in the process. But a lot has changed since Matthew Correia (drums/vocals), Spencer Dunham (bass, guitar, vocals), Miles Michaud (guitar, organ, vocals), and Pedrum Siadatian (guitar, synth, vocals) first bonded over psych rock vinyl in the back room at Amoeba Records in the late aughts. Zuma 85 signals the start of a new era for Allah-Las, and finds the band reinventing itself in defiance of the algorithmic categorization and robotic sterility. Recorded in the midst of the shift from the Old World to whatever branch of reality we're on now, it's a return, too The album will be released October 13th on their own tag, Calico Discos, in partnership with Innovative Leisure, which released early defining statements like Allah-Las (2012) and Worship The Sun (2014).