Aan is an experimental pop band from Portland, Oregon, mixing richly textured guitars and acerbic lyrics with sugary three-part harmonies and sprawling soundscapes. Aan began as a once bedroom pop project of freakish folk balladry, but as of late, its more straightforward side has given way to deeper sonic explorations of more subliminal (and occasionally animalistic) territory.

Aan tours and performs as a four piece, often turning versions of their recordings upside down. Frontman Bud Wilson reaches octaves of the late Jeff Buckley, while maintaining a grittier timbre. The rest of the band follows suit by matching Wilson’s caterwaul with cooing harmonies and a measured rhythmic pulse.

The band’s debut record, Amor Ad Nauseum, will be released on Portland imprint Party Damage on February 4. Recorded over two years in various studios and a cabin on the Oregon coast, the album explores themes of the devotion, desire, complacency, loneliness, and desperation. Though the locations vary, a thick sonic thread runs track to track through the release’s nine songs.

Tracklisting

01. Wet and Dripping
02. Spiritual Provisions
03. I Don’t Need Love
04. Loveless Dreams
05. Bubble Bath Bop
06. Wake Me With A Kiss
07. Daylight
08. Somewhere’s Sunshine
09. Weirdo

Tour

Feb 05 Moscow, ID @ Mikey’s Gyros *
Feb 06 Spokane, WA @ The Bartlett *
Feb 07 Seattle, WA @ BARBOZA *
Feb 08 Eugene, OR @ Sam Bond’s Garage *
Feb 27 Oakland, CA @ Noise Pop (The New Parish) #
Feb 28 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place #%
Mar 01 Sacramento, CA @ Luigi’s #
Mar 02 Fresno, CA @ Love The Captive Studio
Mar 03 Santa Barbara, CA @ tba
Mar 04 Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Bar #
Mar 05 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar #
Mar 07 Tulsa, OK @ Soundpony Lounge
Mar 08 Fayetteville, AR @ Lightbulb Club
Mar 09 Baton Rouge, LA @ Mud + Water
Mar 11 – 15 Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar 16 Hot Springs, AR @ Valley Of The Vapors Festival $%
Mar 17 Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge $
Mar 18 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge $
Mar 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ Barrel Room $
Mar 20 – 23 Boise, ID Treefort Music Fest

*= w/ Desert Noises
#= w/ Social Studies
#&= w/ Social Studies, GRMLN
$= w/ Disco Doom
$%= w/ Disco Doom, HABITS
$^= w/ Disco Doom, Creative Adult
$@= w/ Disco Doom, Animal Eyes

http://www.weareaan.com/