2010 - Cooling Pie Records / Environmental Aesthetics

Eight Nin e (Won't You Be Mine?)

Ava Luna

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Fancy

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Math Money Job

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Electric Balloon

Crown

Infinite House

Black Dog

Steve Polyester

PRPL

Carbon

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Daydream

Victoria

Best Hexagon

Tenderize

Billz

Fixed

Moon 2

Unless

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Carlos Hernandez is the son of a ’70s New York soul DJ. After a detour playing in punk and noise projects, he returned to his soul roots and formed Ava Luna, a band of two girls and four guys, to explore a sound that combines all those ideas.

“Brooklyn’s Ava Luna is the rare band that needs to be heard to be believed. In the band’s hazy, floaty, post-TVOTR-maybe conceit, post-punk grooves, soaring soul harmonies, and classic indie detachment join forces for something beautiful, infectious, and damn-near indescribable. The twisted brainchild of Carlos Hernandez, the son of a soul DJ and occasional producer of bands like Fucked Up, Ava Luna is the sum of a lot of somehow congruous parts. The minimal drums/bass/synth lineup kicks out the most skeletal of Ze Records-era post-punk/nu-funk; a chorus made up of three backing singers add a razor-sharp doo-wop lilt; the sweat-soaked Hernandez is up front stirring-soul like Jamie Liddell or a James Chance for the Misshapes age.”
- Christopher Weingarten, Village Voice


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