Aan released their latest album, Losing My Shadow, last month via Fresh Selects. Losing Shadow is frontman Bud Wilson’s way of recreating the mental and emotional spaces created by grief, and what purposes these new spaces can serve. The album has clean percussive hits, accented by syncopations that throw the song off just enough to make you really appreciate the way the music shapes itself. The album’s first single, "Truly Massive" is the sort of mournful, space-cowboy ballad that could only be made by a psych band. It’s hard to explain the feelings that the song evokes, a shadowy combination of pain, longing, and the hope for a reunion. Wilson’s voice carries all of these emotions and more. It is touching and sentimental but retains the sort of wistful aloofness that leaves you feeling like something important is just barely out of your reach. The album is an incredibly impressive emotional project, one for which Wilson should be commended.
-By Avril Carrillo