Aero Flynn has released “Crisp” via SoundCloud, the latest song to be unveiled from the forthcoming self-titled debut album. The project of Minneapolis based musician Josh Scott, Aero Flynn was also featured on a broadcast of NPR “Morning Edition” as they explored his roots in Eau Claire, WI, and the genesis behind the new album. An album “quickly shaping up to be one of 2015’s sleeper greats” according to Stereogum. Learn more about Aero Flynn on “Morning Edition” here.
Aero Flynn is out March 10th via Ooh La La Records, but is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon. (iTunes Pre-order) (Amazon CD) (Amazon LP)
Stream “Crisp” on SoundCloud
Stream “Twist” on SoundCloud
Stream “Dk/Pi” on SoundCloud
Watch “Dk/Pi” performed live in studio on YouTube
“‘Dk/Pi’ starts with an unassuming little twinkle. But then it sears, smokes and eventually explodes, revealing the full capabilities of Scott’s wandering mind. It helps that his band maintains a tight grasp on his expansive creative vision.” –NPR
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. He watched from a distance as a wave of attention and success that washed over the tight knit scene he was once a part of while he in turn 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. 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.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
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03 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry
04 – Eau Claire, WI – House of Rock
