Aan is a  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.

Aan’s blend of discordance and harmony has earned the group touring support indie legends Built to Spill. Aan has also performed alongside  Wye Oak, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Red Fang, Gardens & Villa, Bosnian rainbows and many others.

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. More confident than most debut albums and more urgent than albums from most of Aan’s peers, Amor Ad Nauseum is a sticky, lush labor of love and lust.
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

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