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Alaskalaska // Leeds

After supporting Nilüfer Yanya at The Brudenell Social Club and a brilliant set at Live at Leeds 2018, ALASKALASKA come to Leeds on Friday May 17th 2019 at Hyde Park Book Club

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South London group ALASKALASKA have announced details of their highly-anticipated debut album The Dots - set for release via Marathon Artists on 3 May 2019.

Headed by Lucinda Duarte-Holman and bassist and producer Fraser Rieley, ALASKALASKA formed in 2016 after Duarte-Holman introduced Rieley to her friends Calum Duncan (guitarist), Fraser Smith (saxophonist), and Gethin Jones (drummer). The resulting recordings - early self-titled EP and 2018 singles ‘Meateater’ and ‘Monster’ - combined an appreciation for pop songwriting form with a myriad of sounds, tastes and styles. ALASKALASKA’s idiosyncratic approach grabbed them attention from Pitchfork, The FADER, Noisey, NME, DIY, BBC Radio 1 and beyond, while support slots with fellow genre-dodgers Alvvays, Cigarettes After Sex, Porches and Nilüfer Yanya soon followed.

Melding together their disparate influences in off-kilter pop and jazz gives their upcoming debut record the push-pull feeling of a group existing without any boundaries. Not fitting neatly into either the post-punk explosion, which defined their South London home a few years back, or the more recent emergence of a future-facing jazz underground, ALASKALASKA dodged the area’s typicalities. The lyrical potency of the former and the languid, freeform attitude of the latter can be felt across ​The Dots​, but ALASKALASKA paint those influences in their own broad brushstrokes in the same way as Björk, Kate Bush, Arca or Fever Ray before them.

ALASKALASKA will release ​The Dots on 3 May before heading out on a headline tour of the U.K. - which includes a headline show at Hyde Park Book Club on 17 May.

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