Aluminum - Iconoclast HaHa [Coke Bottle Clear]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: FLT120LP-C1
Barcode: 0602835727727
Release Date: 30 Oct 2026
Genre: Alternative

For their second LP, Iconoclast HaHa, San Francisco fourpiece Aluminum take the shoegaze, big beat, and alt-pop of their debut, Fully Beat (Felte, 2024), and raise the temperature to a boil. In contrast to previous self-recorded efforts, the album comprises a set of electrifying, full-band studio performances all recorded, mixed, and mastered across an inspired week with recording engineer Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden Studio in Oakland. Lead vocalists and songwriters Marc Leyda and Ryann Gonsalves continue to strike a balance between pop catchiness and experimental abandon while infusing these
songs with spontaneity, immediacy, and post-punk tenacity. “We intended for this to be a more guitar-forward album,” notes
Leyda, “so we recorded through Marshall stacks to give it a heavier feel, and to get a faster, more punkish sound that will
be massive and immersive in a live setting.” Thematically, Gonsalves notes major inspiration from “the frustration of living within a societal system that sets you up for failure, always ‘not being enough’ or ‘being too much’, and all the anger, exhaustion, and pressure to comply.” Reflecting on the confluence of mood, message, and maelstrom across Iconoclast HaHa, Leyda elaborates with his ultimate artistic question: “When it feels like the world is tipping toward devastation, you keep pushing and trying to make something powerful and meaningful, because what else can you do?”

TRACKLISTING
01. Give Me A Reason
02. Killing Time
03. Shell
04. Feels Just Like It
05. Lovely People
06. Distant Noise
07. An Opportunist
08. Paper Cup
09. Styptic Powder
10. I’ll See You There
11. Still Life
12. So Low
13. Skip