STREAM FIRST SINGLE “Dk/Pi” ON SOUNDCLOUD
DOWNLOAD AT AEROFLYNN.ORG
Aero Flynn will release a self-titled debut album this March 3rd on Ooh La La Records. While the name is almost certainly unfamiliar to most, it carries with it an incredible backstory full of pent up potential and deep seated connections to musicians that have dotted and in some cases defined the indie music landscape over the past decade. “Dk/Pi”, is the first single to be released from Aero Flynn, and has been deemed “extremely promising” by Stereogum, and “a blissful return for the enigmatic songwriter” by Consequence of Sound. Stream the song on SoundCloud or download in mp3 form at the official website.
Stream “Dk/Pi” on SoundCloud
Download at AeroFlynn.org
Produced by Aero Flynn (aka Josh Scott) and Justin Vernon, the upcoming self-titled debut is an album that many who have known Scott have been quietly and anxiously hoping would come to pass for over a decade. Scott’s good friend Christopher Porterfield of Field Report tells the story better than most, relating a time in the early early aughts in Eau Claire, Wisconsin when the music scene was fervently anticipating the inevitable success of a promising band named Amateur Love.
Amateur Love shared members (Brad and Phil Cook and Brian Moen) with Vernon’s DeYarmond Edison, and as Porterfield relates, the former “were the better band and everyone knew it. The songs were better. The ideas were grander. The subject matter weirder. The narrators more honest and articulate. The frontman more compelling.” Just as things were starting to take off however, Scott abruptly disbanded the group and moved to Chicago. The rest of Amateur Love were now free to focus more on the Vernon linked DeYarmond, which would relocate to North Carolina before spawning the critically acclaimed Megafaun as well as Vernon’s solo work as Bon Iver.
There was a wave of attention and success that washed over the tight knit scene, while passing by one of its incredibly talented original anchors without so much as a ripple. Scott watched it all from Chicago as the friends he had influenced on their own journey to sustainable careers in music tried to coax and cajole him into releasing an album. Instead he battled depression and developed a mysterious autoimmune disease that will require he undergo a kidney transplant in a few years time.
Yet even in the face of those headwinds, and perhaps on account of them, Scott eventually began writing and recording what would become Aero Flynn’s deeply personal self-titled debut. Those who knew his past were excited to hear he was heading back into the studio. Vernon signed on as record producer, and an incredible cast of musicians lent their talents to the process, including Mike Noyce, Sean Carey, Matt Sweeney, Rob Moose, Adam Hurlburt, CJ Camerieri, and Ben Lester. Recording went incredibly well, and over the course of a year an album many had spent over a decade waiting for was finally finished.
“He had to make it to stay alive,” says Porterfield of the album. “It must be heard in the context of deferred health, deferred relationships, deferred dreams, deferred healing. As spit in the fucking face of the symptoms of disease, like rot and destruction and apathy and cynicism.”
