On gold vinyl.
Warm and wistful, unvarnished and intimate, Aerial East makes anthems for sitting in our own groundlessness and finding a specific peace within it.
Her new album ‘Try Harder,’ out via Partisan Records (Fontaines D.C., IDLES, Laura Marling), draws from East’s teenage years in suburban Texas, resulting in a beautiful ode to those of us who feel like our edges are rough, that perhaps we don’t always quite fit in.
Through deceptively simple lyrics and a conspicuous absence of percussion, ‘Try Harder’ is a tight yet eclectic collection of songs, both sonically and
emotionally. East dives into what she has known – adolescence, heartbreak, coming into a new social consciousness and managing a perpetual feeling of
unanchored-ness – in the hopes to tell stories we don’t hear often.
As the daughter of a military family, East spent her late childhood in Europe and teenage years in Abilene, Texas. After dropping out of community college, she moved to NYC where she’d meet a group of musicians whom she would come to befriend and collaborate with including Okay Kaya, Kelsey Lu, Wet + more.
01. Try Harder
02. The Things We Build
03. Katharine
04. Doin Somethin
05. I Love Dick
06. San Angelo
07. Blue
08. Angry Man
09. Ryan
10. Jonas Said
11. Brennen
12. Be Leavin
Warm and wistful, unvarnished and intimate, Aerial East makes anthems for sitting in our own groundlessness and finding a specific peace within it.
Her new album ‘Try Harder,’ out via Partisan Records (Fontaines D.C., IDLES, Laura Marling), draws from East’s teenage years in suburban Texas, resulting in a beautiful ode to those of us who feel like our edges are rough, that perhaps we don’t always quite fit in.
Through deceptively simple lyrics and a conspicuous absence of percussion, ‘Try Harder’ is a tight yet eclectic collection of songs, both sonically and
emotionally. East dives into what she has known – adolescence, heartbreak, coming into a new social consciousness and managing a perpetual feeling of
unanchored-ness – in the hopes to tell stories we don’t hear often.
As the daughter of a military family, East spent her late childhood in Europe and teenage years in Abilene, Texas. After dropping out of community college, she moved to NYC where she’d meet a group of musicians whom she would come to befriend and collaborate with including Okay Kaya, Kelsey Lu, Wet + more.
01. Try Harder
02. The Things We Build
03. Katharine
04. Doin Somethin
05. I Love Dick
06. San Angelo
07. Blue
08. Angry Man
09. Ryan
10. Jonas Said
11. Brennen
12. Be Leavin