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.
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$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 song BY FAR was the most difficult to complete. The first to get started and the very last to be finished. In the heat of COVID, the chorus lyrics were the first thing I wrote after releasing our last record, “GRAY”. So many people were dying everyday and I started singing, “everyone’s dropping like flies” to a melody that had a skip in the beat, which eventually turned into, “everyone’s closing their eyes”. These phrases are almost synonymous to me, because at the time all I could see and feel was the death around me, but I also was surrounded by a blatant lack of acknowledgement, love and goodness, people intentionally “closing their eyes” to actual fear and sickness…and maybe they had always been. This unraveled my faith in ways I cannot explain, and I’m better for it. In so many ways this song continues to break religious trauma off of me. These lyrics for me are brave and messy and will likely piss some people off. I remember being in a place where these lyrics would have pissed me off. It’s very new to me still to be on this side of things where I’m the “lost one”, the one that “fell off the deep end”. They haven’t asked, but I do not believe God failed me. That isn’t why I left. Those people that were supposed to protect, love, and care for me and others failed me in the name of God. And that’s a tragic collapse of a cancerous and corrupt institution that although isn’t all bad, needs change and accountability, like we all do. I’m in a place after writing this song where I’m finally willing to be misunderstood by those still “on the vine”, but I’m not willing to risk my opportunity to discover the truth.
Jake: Alie and I both grew up in extremely evangelical churches and still had ties to them when we started writing music together. After departing the church some time ago, we hid from anything having to do with religion. We had both personally been burned by the church and had watched some of our closest friends be victims to horrible abuse - both know about and in many cases committed by those in authority. This was a song we had to write more than it was one that we wanted to. It was painful to rummage through memories and try to find words. The lack of accountability in the Church and the ability of leaders and members alike to close their eyes and fixate
lyrics
Steeple oh steeple
Why are your people
Running out the door
I watch myself from the outside
There’s less of me the more I see
Mold and erase me
Still on your throne
Selling what you don’t own
Levied permission
A curtain with holes
Innocence you stole
Whisper or whistle
Building your house on top of the sand
Pray the wind doesn’t blow
Turning your backs raising your hands
Oh god what a show
Everyone’s closing their eyes
Everyone’s closing their eyes
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
You are a mistress
I’m a contortionist
Building and tearing down
Baptize me in the deep end
Dead bodies floating
Fleur-de-li on the wall
It’s the calm before the fall
Lost tracks in the cold snow
You hide in the shadow
Wolf in sheep’s skin
Tell me all of my sin
I don’t know how to say help
Building your house on top the sand
Pray the wind doesn’t blow
Turning your backs raising your hands
Oh god what a show
Everybody’s closing their eyes
Everybody’s closing their eyes
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
They won’t stop
credits
from Heavy For A While,
released March 29, 2024
Writing: Alie Byland, Jacob Byland, Nathan Yaccino
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
