First track off of our upcoming 2nd LP.

Tranquil midnight
A passenger between death and rebirth
Once again, in the dim moonlight
Smothered faith upon the
Slip of a previously firm grasp
Falling away through the cracks

Down in the valley
Say goodbye, goodbye to the setting sun
Down in the valley
Say goodbye, goodbye to the setting sun
Bury your dreams
Say goodbye, goodbye to the setting sun
Welcome your sorrows
Weighing you down with every step

Taken for granted
Say goodbye, goodbye to the setting sun
All in vain
Say goodbye, goodbye to the setting sun
(Ghosts of the past)
The sweat from your brow
(Casting shadows in moonlight)
And bloodied feet give way to lost reflections
(Grasping through the air just to feel)
Cast the weight away
(The touch of the astray)
To the void, to be swallowed and forgotten
(Then their sorrows are buried down)

And the roots of a wilted past will breathe life anew
As the cool breeze from the deep, dark sea
Gently rolls off of the coast
And blue rays of sun
Break the night
credits
releases January 7, 2022
Erik Tarr - Vocals, guitars, pianos, keyboards, synthesizers, tambourine, drum machine

Written by Erik Tarr

Mixed by Erik Tarr, mastered by Keenan Crow

Midnight

The 2nd single off our upcoming sophomore full-length LP.

Momentary pause
Following unrest
Before it fades again
Endless miles of mirrors
Heal the wounds within the blue hour again

Possibilities and uncertainties
Before it starts again
After its end
And gaze eastward as the sun begins to rise

How long has it been since the currents flowed downstream?
Shrouded in fog
Fathomless light of day
Until it reappears
Into ambiguous presentation

Chasing the thin air
To create substance
To breathe in stagnation
To have a destination
Restless and on the forefront of our minds

Then a momentary pause
And salvation comes
As it fades in again
Mirrors of brighter pasts
While blissfully one with the blue hour again

Healing our wounds

Fighting to stay afloat within the storm then
We drown and we pass out
To awake and rise to our feet on shores anew
And never let the soil slip from our feet

I felt the touch of a mirror for the first time
It pulled me in and merged me to myself

Lost in the middle of the ocean
Though without a care
Drifting with the waves and dodging icebergs

I felt the touch of a mirror for the first time
It pulled me in and merged me to myself
credits
releases May 5, 2023
Erik Tarr - Lead and backing vocals, guitars, keyboards
Keenan Crow - Guitars, backing vocals, keyboards
Kyler Schutzman - Bass
Andy Buch - Drums

Written by Erik Tarr, produced, mixed, mastered, engineered by Keenan Crow

Single artwork by Keenan Crow

Blue Hour

Recording of our professionally filmed set at Ames City Auditorium on November 17th, 2023.

Erik Tarr - Lead vocals, guitar
Keenan Crow - Guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
Ky Schutzman - Bass
Blake Erickson - Drums

Special thanks to Craig Kaufman and Caleb Kuennen for organizing the show and running sound/video.

Audio for upload mixed and mastered by Keenan Crow.

Artwork is based on photos taken by Brittany Brooke Crow, edited by Erik Tarr.

Ghost Trail (Live)

Déjà Vu (Live)

A Delicate Balance (Live)

Our debut full-length LP.

Erik Tarr - Lead vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, glockenspiel, mandolin, SFX, programming, sequencing, speech on tracks 1 and 12

Keenan Crow - Mixing, mastering, SFX

Sarah Rosales - Vocals on tracks 1 and 11, vocals and violin on tracks 6, 9, 13 and 14

Danielle Stokes - Violin on tracks 6, 9, 13 and 14

Royce Michael Alaniz - Drums on track 5

Jon Laczniak - Speech on tracks 1, 2 and 8

James Borgman - Speech on track 12, audio recordings of Jon

Christian Cook - Cello on track 13, speech on track 12

All songs written and recorded by Erik Tarr and mixed/mastered by Keenan Crow

Album artwork by Christian Cook featuring himself, Miriam Randolph, James Borgman, and Julia Everitt

A Flash In The Eyes

Ghost Trail

Aria #3

Hazel (Part 2)

Born out of a college dorm at the University of Iowa in late 2013, Ariias is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Erik Tarr. At the time of its inception, the goal of the project was to aurally express Tarr's emotions, thoughts, and experiences, and to exist as a natural byproduct of his musical influences. This idea remains the heart of Ariias today, despite multiple lineup changes throughout the years. 

        Now based out of Des Moines, Iowa, Ariias consists of Erik Tarr (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard), Keenan Crow (guitar, keyboard, vocals), Kyler Schutzman (bass), and Blake Erickson (drums, vocals). The music is spacey, atmospheric and layered with lengthy compositions and a variety of instruments and arrangements, bearing influences of shoegaze, dream pop, psychedelic rock, and post-rock styles. 

        The band gigged extensively throughout 2016-2018 at various venues and towns across their home state of Iowa and the midwest, opening for acts such as Remo Drive, Emarosa, A Lot Like Birds, Condor & Jaybird, Halfloves, Hex Girls, and Soultru. After embarking on a midwestern tour with Cedar Rapids-based alt-rock group In the Attic during the summer of 2018, Ariias released their first full-length LP, "A Flash in the Eyes", on April 17, 2020, following their first mini LP, "Violet Superstition", which was released on October 24, 2016.

        “[The music is] a sudden stream of interlocking guitars; definite dream pop/shoegaze sound. Erik Tarr’s guitar rings like a sonar in a mist of shredding sound. His vocals are spacey in delivery and keep up with the shoegaze atmosphere. It doesn’t sound like a shoegaze rip off though, instead of the complication being in the atmosphere of the sound, the complication resides in their intricate progressions and solos that fall out of focus and into its own wave of sound.” - The Shaz, 2017