Singer/songwriter Derek Archambault has spent the last 4 years on tour with progressive hardcore/punk band Defeater, and has had a solo project called Alcoa going for even longer. After countless years of playing second fiddle, Alcoa will release Bone & Marrow, its debut full-length album, on February 26th, 2013. Bone & Marrow was recorded in mid-2012. This debut album will feature eleven songs and has “…a few tracks I’ve been fucking around with for the past few years, along with new stuff written specifically for this record. I wanted to try out what it would be like to be a real band, so I wrote as we recorded it”, Archambault said. Not unlike earlier Ryan Adams sounding material, Bone & Marrow is country combined with pop sensibilities.  Instrumentation ranges from upright bass, banjo, fiddle, pedal steel, to piano/organ, and vocals include charming guy/girl dueling vocals (featuring Archambault’s fiance Alyssa Eygnor).

Track Spotlight: “I Don’t Feel Welcome Here or Anywhere” conveys expected angst but does so against a beautifully complicated instrumentation/arrangement.