ALASKALASKA Announce Debut Album The Dots, Share Lead Single

ALASKALASKA have announced the details of their debut album The Dots, out on May 3 via Marathon Artists. They’ve also shared the album’s lead single “Moon,” with an accompanying video by Elliot Arndt.

Following a self-titled EP, and 2018 singles “Meateater” and “Monster,” “Moon” is another intensely invigorating and rhythmic slice of art-pop. ALASKALASKA’s infusion of jazz and experimental pop blooms masterfully and gracefully on this track. Syncopated beats, jubilant horns and luminous vocals from singer, guitarist and principal songwriter Lucinda Duarte-Holman contribute to a danceable cornucopia of dynamic pop soundscapes. It’s easily one of the best art-pop tracks of 2019 so far.

Duarte-Holman explains the root of the album’s lead single: “‘Moon’ is an account of the monthly, cyclical ebbs and flows (pun intended) of my emotional and physical wellbeing. It is an insight into my neurosis. ‘Moon’ is about PMS.”

Per a press release, The Dots “is both the culmination of ALASKALASKA’s early-days period of experimentation, and a blank canvas for their impossible-to-predict future. A broad spectrum of identity politics and personal discovery, and the ways these seemingly cut-and-dry attributes can be affected by your setting and situation, plays out across the record.”