The relatively short life of San Francisco’s Aluminum has so far yielded a single (Spinning Backwards, 2020) and an EP (Windowpane, 2022), but their debut LP, Fully Beat (2024), overflows with tenured confidence and a singular style that deftly comprises shoegaze, big beat, and jangle pop. With influences ranging from Orbital, to Wipers, to The Avalanches and Sly and the Family Stone, theirs is a multifaceted take on established forms, fed through fuzz and led by honeyed, dual vocal harmonies from Bay Area post-punk veterans Marc Leyda (of Wild Moth) and Ryann Gonsalves (of Torrey).

Genre Tags: Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Big Beat, Lo-Fi Pop, Jangle Pop
RIYL: My Bloody Valentine, Happy Mondays, 80s underground punk, Slowdive, Strawberry Switchblade, Black Tambourine, Primal Scream, Mission of Burma, Bowery Electric, Veruca Salt