New album ‘You Wanna Fade?’ due out this Friday 05/09 via Get Better Records. RIYL Smashing Pumpkins, Third Eye Blind, Velocity Girl, Garbage. West Coast Tour w/ Phony Starts this week

Yesterday Friday (May 9th) Alien Boy are releasing their long-awaited new full-length, ‘You Wanna Fade?’, on Get Better Records. Portland, OR’s loudest export are sharing one more early taste of the album with its gigantic final single, ‘I Broke My World’. Album is made up of the most dynamic and powerful songs band have ever released, each track perfectly calibrated to knock you over with big guitars and big emotions. Song follows lead single ‘Changes’ and ‘Pictures Of You’ and explodes from the speakers with Alien Boy‘s trademark blend of shoegaze shimmer and alt rock immediacy. Album follows 2021′s acclaimed ‘Don’t Know What I Am’ and finds group digging deeper into all the best parts of the pop-rock-by-way-of-shoegaze sound. The album’s widescreen scope was the result of a lengthy writing and recording process with 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. The result is an album that stretches Alien Boy’s sound in exciting new directions while also offering their most instantly satisfying songs to date. And cutting through the towering arrangements are Weber‘s untouchable melodies and unabashedly longing lyrics that somehow imbue the most relatable feelings with a sense of earth-shattering stakes. ‘You Wanna Fade?’ is a record that sounds huge and also feels huge. Alien Boy are also gearing up for a run of West Coast tour dates along with fellow rockers, Phony. See full itinerary below.

‘You Wanna Fade?’ tracklist:
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?

Upcoming Shows:
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