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What drove you to record a new album so quickly? Tell us more about the inspirations behind it and what can we expect from it?Īly: We were just inspired to get back in the studio again because we felt like we had new inspiration and more songs inside of us. This is an album of haunting introspection and personal recollections, like a lost diary that has been found. Right after the succes of your 2021 album ‘A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun’ you returned back to the studio, where you worked more quickly than ever on your upcoming album ‘With Love From’, which is being released on 15th March. Right now, the focus is really on music cause we took such a long break from it. So the two I think have definitely helped each other and we’ll always consider ourselves to be both. In a way, I think that kind of curtailed our acting careers a little bit, because there was a confidence in who we were as a band at a young age that brought a confidence to us as actors. We got signed at such a young age and started playing instruments at such a young age, that we then formed into a band that led to writing our own music and playing live. So I think acting and music kind of started simultaneously. When we moved back to LA, it opened the floodgates for more creative opportunities than Seattle held. We were born in LA, but we lived in Seattle for seven years. We were possibly artists because we were writing songs.ĪJ: Ever since we were young, we were really creative kids, but we didn’t necessarily see ourselves doing this as a profession. That showed us we were more than just musical people. Once we picked up multiple instruments, I think that started to influence us as songwriters, which only happened after we really picked up guitar. Growing up, we always had music in the house and we started playing instruments at young ages. Growing up, in school we were always involved in something creative, whether it was a speech meter, a talent show, a play. I think it was a bit of a fluke, but it all started from us just being super creative as young children. What made you pursue a career in music?Īly: It was something that we didn’t necessarily seek out professionally at first. AJ clothing PORTS 1961 shoes SIMON MILLER: earrings LILOU JEWELRYĪly clothing DION LEE Aly shoes BY FAR Aly necklace SAINT MORAN watches WIND VINTAGEĪly & AJ, you debuted your first album in 2005, when you were in your teens. Aly & AJ will also kick off their ‘With Love From Tour’ on 30 March through late April, and then pick it up again in September.

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Their upcoming album ‘With Love From’, which is coming out 15th March, is a travelog filled with organic instrumentation and road songs, like a series of postcards to fans from each town they’ve seen on their journey.

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In the wake of the runaway TikTok revival of their 2007 hit ‘Potential Breakup Song’, Aly & AJ transformed their foundation of Disney pop and TV sitcoms into a new vision of sparkling guitars, close harmonies, and highway sprawl, growing on their own terms.Īfter the success of ‘A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun’ Aly & AJ returned right back to the studio. A decade and a half into their careers, the album was their most realized yet, the work of a band reclaiming itself.

Meanwhile, AJ Tracey takes janus-faced jabs at the government: 'I locked up the food for the kids like Boris, and then I let it go like Rashford.' Almost every bar is this witty and weighty-by the time you've processed an AJ bar you'll be clutching your pearls over a Digga one.When the California sister duo Aly & AJ released their dream-rock return in 2021, it marked a new beginning.

Digga D brazenly admits to all sorts, still as fearless as ever even after his ordeal with the police.

The duo use retro flows to go bar for bar with marksman precision. Even the video is a recreation of Digga's 'Next Up? Freestyle,' which was taken off of YouTube by order of the police.Ī skeletal drill beat provides the ideal landing strip for this West London link-up. 'Bringing It Back' is a righteous defiance of that order. In 2018, Digga D became the first rapper in the UK to be given a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) prohibiting him from releasing lyrics that incite violence or recording music without police permission. Both artists hail from Ladbroke Grove and are poster boys of UK rap's recent renaissance.

This AJ Tracey and Digga D collab feels long overdue.

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