Looking For Alaska Releases New Album

Light and Shadow is the new album from Looking for Alaska, releasing on Friday, November 6th.

This collection of airy folk/pop songs were produced and mixed by legendary producer Ben Edwards of The Sitting Room, surrounded by the stunning scenery and the ebbs & flow of Lyttelton harbour. The raw gems of the songs were polished and the result is a dark, moody album with breathtaking emotional maturity from the songwriter duo of Amy Maynard and Aaron Gott. (Who just got engaged too!)

In the few years since their last album release, Looking for Alaska have released 2 singles, toured Aotearoa/NZ, Australia and Europe, gathering the experiences they needed to write fresh, new songs, resulting in Light and Shadow.

In comparison to their last self-titled album, which was upbeat and bouncy folk/pop, this album parallels that vibe, as lyrically it is heavier with themes about personal struggles and life lessons.

All The Broken People explores the breakdown of family relationships, Whole Again and Calling Out speak about the struggles of mental health, but there are definitely love ballads in there like Home, which was widely received, premiering on RNZ, folk channels and international blogs. The album also features their first te Reo Maori track, Hine Ararau, where Amy grapples with past generational trauma and how to resolve this mamae (hurt) in the present. These follow the success of the first single Fall Into You.

Light and Shadow is a perfect way to describe the ahua (feeling) of this album. Looking for Alaska‘s last 2 singles have been playlisted on stations such as More FM, RDU, community radio, Fine Folk Music channel (racking up over 51,000+ views for Fall Into You and 40,000+ for Home), iwi stations nationwide, as well as Australia and through various folk channels. If the first album was the honeymoon phase of Amy and Aarons musical relationship, then this album represents their forever love connection.

The duo will start their new year, 2021, on tour in Aotearoa.

Don’t miss them live as this is where they really glow!

For more, go to: www.lookingforalaska.co.nz