Name: Don't Know What I Am
Brand: Alien Boy

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-GBR-130IEC2

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Colour

green

Colour details

Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Indie Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634457077324

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

CD-GBR-130

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Extended format: No

2021-08-20

634457060425

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Alien Boy

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Get Better Records

Alien Boy is guitarist and songwriter Sonia Weber, drummer Derek McNeil, and a rotating cast of Portland, Oregon scene stalwarts. As her band’s Wipers-inspired name might imply, Weber is a PDX lifer, and anyone who’s spent time in the last decade’s DIY circuit will recognize something undeniably West Coast in Alien Boy’s sound: a sharpened, focused take on the heavy guitar pop of the 1980’s, chorus pedals and punishing drums the canvas for bold strokes of recollection and yearning.

The band coalesced in 2015 around the recording of that year’s <i>Never Getting Over It</i>, an 8-song pop sprint that boasts an brash debut charm and heartbroken fervor—not to mention an overnight, practice space recording session origin story—that’s shamelessly the stuff of underground rock legend. In fact, Alien Boy is the rare band to have digested decades of guitar music mythos without regurgitating cliche at all. Weber may have called a song “Only Posers Fall In Love,” but many of her most impactful lyrics come packaged as references that feel deeply genuine rather than forced. “Your my Robert, I’m your Patti.” “I said I wanna be adored, but no one does it right.” At a time when many of her peers seem embarrassed by the Strats slung over their shoulders, Weber busies herself writing six-string anthems that new generations of digital crate-diggers will be obsessing over decades from now.

Don't Know What I Am

Music US