Album Notes

In its second full length recording, Crown Aruba has delivered its own brand of pop that embraces a world of tensions – shotguns and flowers, expectations and regrets, boys and girls, cats and dogs… Like Jonathan Richman channeling the Velvet Underground, or Polvo channeling 80s art-rock, Crown Aruba digests its influences only to produce a sound of its own that is both familiar and original. The band's two guitars are alternatively melodic and jarring, tugging songs in surprising directions, while the bass paves a steady path for drums that are all too happy to dance outside of it. The songs are compact, never dwelling on a particular theme longer than required. The playful feel of many of the songs masks more ambiguous imagery of a complicated world.


“From early-Wire angular to Beat Happening twee, local Seattle four-piece Crown Aruba cleverly scoop the cream from several styles to deliver an infectious debut that is pure indie pop. The vocal throwbacks to Sebadoh, the Guided By Voices guitar crunch, and the crisp, papery drums all evoke the lo-fi alt-rock of the mid-90's’” (Three Imaginary Girls)