ARMS ALOFT formed in 2007 in their hometown of
Eau Claire, Wisconsin; a logging town-turned interstate exit between
Minneapolis and Chicago. They were quick to self-record and -release a 5 song
demo. In 2008, they released their first proper EP, COMFORT AT ANY COST on
Gilead Media to widely positive reviews. MRR said, "ARMS ALOFT plays some
nearly perfectly executed catchy punk" and "[ARMS ALOFT] will soon be
a band to whom others will be compared as an influence." Razorcake said,
"There's a glut of groups doing this type of stuff. And yet I can think of
less than a half a dozen bands who are doing it as well."
ARMS ALOFT spent a large chunk of 2011 and 2012 on the road. Touring both at home and in Europe. They also holed up in a small studio in Minneapolis to record their debut album, SAWDUST CITY.
SAWDUST CITY finds ARMS ALOFT bringing more of the brand of intelligent punk they debuted on COMFORT, but expanding on it. The influence of DILLINGER FOUR and THE CLASH is still there, but perhaps more obviously filtered through the range of everything from SEBADOH to Japanese rock group THE PILLOWS or a KURT VONNEGUT book-on-tape that you're likely to hear rattling from the two working speakers in the shitty red van they call home. The album is both musically and lyrically dense, but never pretends to be more than the punk rock record it is proud to be.
SAWDUST CITY will be released October 23rd, 2012 in the US by KISS OF DEATH and in Japan by EAGER BEAVER. ARMS ALOFT will spend many of the following months on the road.
"Sawdust City" Track List:
1. Blues For Hiroshi Matsumoto
2. Irish Coffee
3. The Decline of Midwestern Civ...
4. DOUBLEDRANOPERCOCETNOICE
5. Skinny Love
6. It's Not The Heat It's The Headwinds
7. This Bag Is Not A Toy
8. Where Seagulls Dare
9. Sawdust City Soundclash
10. 10221884
11. Blues For Mamimi Samejima
12. A Fistful Of Zlotys
For more information, visit:
www.facebook.com/armsaloft
armsaloft.bandcamp.com
www.kissofdeathrecords.com
ARMS ALOFT spent a large chunk of 2011 and 2012 on the road. Touring both at home and in Europe. They also holed up in a small studio in Minneapolis to record their debut album, SAWDUST CITY.
SAWDUST CITY finds ARMS ALOFT bringing more of the brand of intelligent punk they debuted on COMFORT, but expanding on it. The influence of DILLINGER FOUR and THE CLASH is still there, but perhaps more obviously filtered through the range of everything from SEBADOH to Japanese rock group THE PILLOWS or a KURT VONNEGUT book-on-tape that you're likely to hear rattling from the two working speakers in the shitty red van they call home. The album is both musically and lyrically dense, but never pretends to be more than the punk rock record it is proud to be.
SAWDUST CITY will be released October 23rd, 2012 in the US by KISS OF DEATH and in Japan by EAGER BEAVER. ARMS ALOFT will spend many of the following months on the road.
"Sawdust City" Track List:
1. Blues For Hiroshi Matsumoto
2. Irish Coffee
3. The Decline of Midwestern Civ...
4. DOUBLEDRANOPERCOCETNOICE
5. Skinny Love
6. It's Not The Heat It's The Headwinds
7. This Bag Is Not A Toy
8. Where Seagulls Dare
9. Sawdust City Soundclash
10. 10221884
11. Blues For Mamimi Samejima
12. A Fistful Of Zlotys
For more information, visit:
www.facebook.com/armsaloft
armsaloft.bandcamp.com
www.kissofdeathrecords.com
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