Looking For Alaska Release New Album 'Light and Shadow'

‘Light And Shadow’ Is The New Album From Looking For Alaska, out today.

This collection of dreamy folk/pop songs were produced and mixed by legendary producer Ben Edwards of The Sitting Room, surrounded by the stunning scenery and the ebbs & flow of Lyttelton harbour. The raw gems of these songs were polished and the result is a darker, moody album with breathtaking emotional maturity from the songwriter duo of Waikato based Amy Maynard and Aaron Gott.

In the few years since their last album release, Looking for Alaska have released 2 singles, toured Aotearoa/NZ, Australia and Europe, gathering the experiences they needed to write fresh, new songs, resulting in 'Light and Shadow’.

Following the last singles, which were love ballads, 'Home' and 'Fall Into You', other songs such as ‘All The Broken People’ explores the breakdown of family relationships, whereas ‘Whole Again’ and ‘Calling Out’ speak about the struggles of mental health. The album also features their first te reo Māori track, ‘Hine Ararau’, where Amy grapples with past generational trauma of her Māori lineage and how to resolve this mamāe (hurt) in the present.

The duo will start their new year, 2021, on tour in Aotearoa.

Listen to ‘Light and Shadow’ here: