New CD!

In its second full length recording, Crown Aruba has delivered its own brand of pop that embraces a world of tensions – shotguns and flowers, expectations and regrets, boys and girls, cats and dogs… Like Jonathan Richman channeling the Velvet Underground, or Polvo channeling 80s art-rock, Crown Aruba digests its influences only to produce a sound of its own that is both familiar and original. The band's two guitars are alternatively melodic and jarring, tugging songs in surprising directions, while the bass paves a steady path for drums that are all too happy to dance outside of it. The songs are compact, never dwelling on a particular theme longer than required. The playful feel of many of the songs masks more ambiguous imagery of a complicated world.

SHOWS!

Nov 21, 2008 9:00P
The Skylark, Seattle, WA
CD release show. FREE!
With NCM and The Get Off

Dec 6 2008 8:00P
Bob’s Java Jive. Tacoma, WA
With the Riffbrokers, I Love Myselfs
and the Small Change

Dec 13 2008 8:00P
The Mars Bar. Seattle, WA
With SaboteurS and Gogan and Bunch

As always, feel free to head over to our myspace profile to listen to some newly recorded songs and leave us a friendly comment!