Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear frosted glass vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$25USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SIGNED with a lil message from Alie - Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear frosted glass vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
edition of 50
$30USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
These are the highest quality (very normal eco-digipak) CD's on the market.
We checked and they are super "IN" right now too, because 2024 is the "official year of the CD". Get em' while they're hot. YAY!
- comes with one digipak case to hold your spinning "Alie" CD and a little tiny credit page
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$10USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
We partnered up with local (Everett, WA) tape label, Palmer House to create a short run of Limited Edition tapes and they even are translucent pink, which is bad ass. This doesn't come with a tape player, so good luck listening to this in 2024. You might wanna hit up a thrift store for this.
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$10USDor more
Bag
You totally get a tote!
15" x 16" - Fits vinyl!
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$12USDor more
T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album
This shirt is 100% Cotton, and printed in Everett, WA by our friends from Screen Printing Northwest.
Designed by our friend, Andrew Martinez, a fellow New Mexican who also has migrated to Seattle. Us New Mexican's find each other out here in the wild.
The idea behind this shirt was to bring to life a piece of all ten songs. We love it - we think you will too.
Includes unlimited streaming of Lean In
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$25USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SAVE $5 and buy BOTH VINYLS IN ONE.
Both of these were manufactured at the same plant in GEORGIA, USA and they were made by BYLAND.
"Gray" was the best thing Byland (hi, it's me alie) had made up until that point.
Still SO incredibly proud of that record. It was my "coming of age".
GET BOTH TODAY AND SAVE!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$45USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
You get all the vinyl we've ever made ("Gray" and "Heavy For a While") + our CoOl new tote!
YOU SAVE $7 (11%) WHOA BABY.
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$55USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
You get the new record, "Heavy For A While" in Clear Glass + the "Byland" Tote.
THE VINYLS SLIDE IN PERFECTLY!!!
YOU SAVE $5!!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$30USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
You get the new record, "Heavy For A While" in Clear Glass + the "Byland" Tote + The "Heavy For a While" Shirt.
THE VINYLS SLIDE IN PERFECTLY to the tote.
This shirt is 100% Cotton, and printed in Everett, WA by our friends from Screen Printing Northwest.
Designed by our friend, Andrew Martinez, a fellow New Mexican who also has migrated to Seattle. Us New Mexican's find each other out here in the wild.
The idea behind this shirt was to bring to life a piece of all ten songs. We love it - we think you will too.
YOU SAVE $7!!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$55USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear pink vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
edition of 50
$25USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SIGNED with a lil message from Alie - Deluxe 12" vinyl version of our new record, "Heavy For A While", pressed on clear pink glass vinyl in Athens, Georgia at Classic City Vinyl Works. Includes lyric insert!
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavy For A While
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
edition of 20
$30USDor more
about
Alie: This is a long-game song. It ushered in an upheaval of stagnant resistance within myself and helped lead me to new levels of embodiment and acceptance. We had just heard a friend share a meaningful and heartfelt dream where their beloved late dog was on the other side of a black hole. If you’ve ever been to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, you’ll know that at the beginning of the steep trail is a very large opening that bats fly out of in a dark blast each evening at dusk. It’s that Natural Entrance I ventured into on my way deep into the cavern, a 2 km hike equivalent to about 79 stories to the Big Room, a vast and open other-world underneath us. It very much feels like a black hole you’re willingly falling into. And Darts is meant to depict that journey, except inward to my own black hole, a connected hush to my ego and an invitation to discover a love my child self, which is to love my most vulnerable self. We decided to write a song during our hike, reigning in inspo from the “information plaques” that were scattered along the trail at the Park. This song feels like an affectionate, cyclical bloom, and it’s one of the tracks I’m most proud to release. I feel like Darts gets more nuanced the more I listen, and it always reminds me that I, like nature, I am to be feared, and I am also to be loved. A line that sticks out is, “hand on my chest, you’re all I have. I can’t imagine when that will be enough”. While much of the rest of the record is about making peace with everything going on around me, this song is about finding peace and power within. The beating piano takes its time as it paints a lush landscape. Meagan Grandall’s textured, layered harmonies thrive off of the spaciousness before and after the sonic uprise, one of my favorite moments on the record. My friend Abby Gundersen composed and performed some of the most brilliant string arrangements that I’ve heard from her.
lyrics
I’m waiting on the other side of a black hole
I can’t see the horizon
Reflection is denying
I’m muted and sedated
Lost in translation
Time isn’t always on your side
I thought I missed my turn
My existence is different than my fiction
I might change my mind
Hand on my chest
You’re all I have
I can’t imagine when
That will be enough
My fingers are flat from
holding the mirror
I’m not the same person
here than I am alone
Time isn’t always on your side
I thought I missed my turn
My existence is different than my fiction
I might change my mind
AHHHH
AHHHH
AHHHH
We should play darts
Make a game out of targets
Tape our dreams to the board
Maybe you’ll hit mine and
I will hit yours
Gravity pulls
A ladder descending
I’m dead in the ground
I’m alive in the womb
credits
from Heavy For A While,
released March 29, 2024
Writing: Alie Byland, Jacob Byland
Production: Nathan Yaccino
Engineer: Nathan Yaccino
Engineering Assistance: Jacob Byland
Mixing: Brandon Bell
Mastering: Pete Lyman (Infrasonic Mastering)
Mastering Assistant: Daniel Bacigalupi (Infrasonic Mastering)
Byland is the moniker and last name of Seattle-based, Albuquerque-raised, Cinematic Indie Rock artist, Alie Renee. Her
dynamic sound is often characterized by arrangements full of intriguing time signatures and unexpected chord changes, tethered by timeless lyrics and vocal vulnerability. For her, music is about taking time to create space to process emotions....more
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I love how this album makes me feel. It's like standing in a waterfall of memory, letting the lost moments wash over me. I could let the rushing current take me out to sea. Jaycee
