After the recent announcement of their new LP, You Wanna Fade?, available May 9th via Get Better Records, Alien Boy are back with new single and video “Pictures of You.” Vocalist/guitarist Sonia Weber discussed “Pictures of You” calling it, “a song about hanging on the telephone, what all the best songs are about–and what makes for a little bit of an obsessive crush. A little bit about that rush of a new feeling and feeling desperate to catch someone’s attention.” You Wanna Fade? follows their 2021 LP Don’t Know What I Am.

The album includes numerous collaborators: first drums with Andy Rusinek; then guitars and bass with Phil Jones (Supercrush); and lastly the vocals and various overdubs by guitarist Caleb Misclevitz with help from Nathan Tucker (Strange Ranger, Cool Original, Pontiac Flare) who also provided additional production and instrumentation. The densely layered songs were finally handed over to Jack Shirely (Deafheaven, Gouge Away, Jeff Rosenstock) for mixing and mastering.

“I was looking at the records that I turn to the most–Third Eye Blind’s self-titled and Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream,” Weber explains, “I really wanted to capture that kind of grandness, the kind of thing that has a lot of dimension and isn’t actually that concise.”

Alien Boy
You Wanna Fade?
track list:
Get Better Records

1. Scrub Me Clean
2. Changes
3. I Broke My World
4. You Want Me Too
5. Cold Air
6. Rhythm of Control
7. Morning
8. Another Brand New Me
9. Pictures of You
10. Everything Stays
11. Bleeding In Yr Pocket
12. You Wanna Fade?

Alien Boy 2025 Tour Dates

5.9 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall w/ Conspire *
5.10 Seattle, WA @ Vera Project w/ Supercrush *
5.11 Eugene, OR @ House Show w/ Growing Pains *
5.13 Reno, NV @ Holland Project *
5.14 San Francisco, CA @ Neck of The Woods w/ Pop Free, Spirit Dive *
5.15 Fullerton, CA @ Programme w/ Pop Free & Spirit Dive *
5.16 Los Angeles, CA @ Make Out Music *

* w/ Phony

Pre-order You Wanna Fade by Alien Boy HERE