The relatively short life of San Francisco's Aluminum has so
far yielded a single (Spinning Backwards, 2020) and an EP
(Windowpane, 2022), but their debut LP, Fully Beat,
overflows with tenured confidence and a singular style that
deftly comprises shoegaze, big beat, and jangle pop. With
influences ranging from Orbital, to Wipers, to The
Avalanches and Sly and the Family Stone, theirs is a
multifaceted take on established forms, fed through fuzz and
led by honeyed, male-female vocal harmonies from Bay Area
post-punk veterans Marc Leyda (of Wild Moth) and Ryann
Gonsalves (of Torrey).
