'Go On' is the first single from A.S.O, a duo comprised of singer/songwriter Alia Seror-O'Neill and music producer Lewie Day.

Day is better known as Tornado Wallace. Under this name, he takes on dance music's tropes and elevates them to heightened emotional states. There is a deft lightness of touch, serious musical chops, and a slight knowing wink to his work. Here, with fellow Australian/Berlin export Seror-O'Neill aka Alias Error, we're swimming in the deeper end of the same pool. Taking a step away from the dancefloor and crafting exquisite end-times pop music with one eye on the past. The mood is less upbeat and more intimate and reflective.

Let's not knit boots for snails here; the primary reference is trip-hop. But don't fear; this is not insipid coffee shop landfill. On the contrary, it has proper emotional heft and maturity. Over its three-minute run time, 'Go On' draws you completely into its world. It manages to be both ethereal and heavy, structurally unconventional without forgoing killer hooks. And O'Neill's voice comes sweet with a side-order of menace. The pair remember that the best tunes never let you get too comfortable. Sure, it has a 'chill out' hue, and you can imagine hearing it alongside those familiar sunset signifiers. But there's something deeper and darker below the surface.

'Go On' seems to exist in a liminal moment where languidness meets exhaustion. That indefinable instant when a high ends and the paranoia is in the post. It's a pretty song for sure, but it has teeth.

Written by Alia Seror-O'Neill & Lewie Day
Mixed by Lewie Day
Mastering by Mikey Young
Artwork by Edgar Lugo-Vasquez
Words by Piers Harrison

Released October 28, 2022
Low Lying Records 2022

Go On

a.s.o. opened their world to us with 'Go On' in the fall of 2022. Now, in 2023, we're granted an extended audience in 'Rain Down.' Whereas the debut single was tantalisingly brief, its follow-up is expansive and wide-screen. 'Rain Down' has a more conventional structure and a longer run-time but is a no less bitter-sweet, emotionally resonant song. And like its predecessor, it leaves you hungry for more.

Once again, there's more than a hint of guarded menace in Seror-O'Neill's vocal delivery. Or is it hard-learned self-reliance? But then comes that chorus. The tension breaks, euphoria rises, the sweetest release, let the rain come down. Control is ceded but only on her terms. Make no mistake; this is some proper songwriting. Light and shade, push and pull.

The musical palette is broad and spacious. We still ride on the trip-hop blueprint and a familiar break, but there are nods to Middle Eastern music, the melancholic nostalgia of chill-out, and rave euphoria. Lewie shows that he can capture a genre's essence and then move beyond it, taking us to a new place all of his own.

More masterful end-times pop music from a.s.o. This is rich, complex, hooky, moreish, and utterly essential.


Written by Alia Seror-O’Neill & Lewie Day 
Mixed by Lewie Day
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Edgar Lugo-Vasquez
Words by Piers Harrison 

2023 Low Lying Records

Rain Down

Here is the third single from a.s.o., singer/songwriter Alia Seror-O'Neill, and producer Lewie Day. 'Falling Under' is a thematic consolidation of the previous two singles and a logical progression toward their pending long-player. 

Written by Alia Seror-O’Neill & Lewie Day
Mixed by Lewie Day
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Edgar Lugo-Vasquez

Thanks to Corey, Maryos and Hektor.

2023 Low Lying Records

Falling Under

Here is the debut, self-titled album from a.s.o., singer/songwriter Alia Seror-O’Neill, and producer Lewie Day. ‘a.s.o.’ is a thematic consolidation of the previous two singles and an impressive artistic progression. Day and Seror-O’Neill show they’ve mastered the format of the radio-friendly pop song and found how to subvert it completely. Across eleven songs, they have built a rich and compelling body of work.

We know where we are now, emotionally complex, trip-hop torch songs for club freaks. But the palette has broadened to encompass ethereal dream pop à la Cocteau Twins, slow-burning AOR-soul, and dubwise stylings. As a result, ‘a.s.o.’ is a satisfyingly coherent listen but never a musical monoculture. Variously there are nods toward Julee Cruise, Fleetwood Mac, and the uneasy listening of Portishead. It’s an album that wears its influences lightly, is never weighed down by them, and always sure of its own identity.

It’s anchored by Alia’s unique voice. Her words speak of restraint and release, taking us from the elegiac to the euphoric. This elegantly crafted, perfect pop music sounds like it has had enough of your shit. And Day’s music is the perfect foil; deep, slightly menacing, restrained, and powerful. The album has a cinematic texture, as with David Lynch; the seemingly familiar becomes uncanny and strange the closer we look. a.s.o. take our emotions for a joyride before leaving us floating in space.

‘a.s.o.’ is a journey; by its end, we all are changed.

Written and recorded by Alia Seror-O’Neill and Lewie Day at Quintagon Studios, Berlin and Palmerston Studios, Naarm/Melbourne in 2020-2023.
Mixed by Lewie Day except for Track 9 “Understand” mixed by Thomas McAlister
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Dylan Batelic
Words by Piers Harrison

2023 Low Lying Records
Cat. No. LLRLP001 – All rights reserved
www.itsaso.bandcamp.com

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