A collection of highlights from Aan's different releases on the Fresh Selects label over the years

FSX-064: Over The Mountain (coming December 2024) – freshselects.bandcamp.com/album/over-the-mountain

FSX-065: 'Life... [blows raspberry]' EP (July 2024) – fsx.lnk.to/aan-life

FSX-027: 'Losing My Shadow' cassette – lnk.to/aanlosingmyshadow

Aan on Fresh Selects

BULLET PROOF...I WISH I WAS

Raised By Swans – Easier

The second single from Aan's forthcoming LP 'Over The Mountain' – out December 6th on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/laced

"Laced and Lost" is a song about making music. It's about examining what motivates a person to create, what motivates me, and the question "is it intrinsically unethical to make art with no emotional depth?"

– Bud

Lyrics by Bud Wilson, music written by Bud Wilson & Cameron Spies

Bud Wilson - lead vocals, guitars, Kawai PH50 synthesizer
Travis Leipzig - bass
Dana Valatka - drums
Zak Nelson - Roland Chorus Echo tape delay
Andrew Lawson - Juno-106 synthesizer, backing vocals
Cameron Spies - Kawai PH50 and Juno-106 synths, programming

Produced by Cameron Spies & Bud Wilson

Recorded & Mixed by Cameron Spies at The Trash Treasury in Portland, Oregon

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

Artwork by Tawfiq Mardini

A&R: Kenny / Fresh Selects

Executive Producers: Bud Wilson & Kenny / Fresh Selects

FSX-064-02 © 2024 Fresh Selects. The best all have their backs against some truth.

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Lyrics:

Amputate the heart of it,
I know it can’t be real
Shallow introspection,
So little is revealed
All the little creatures 
 will rot against their will

If we’ll never get it right,
It ends tonight

Let me kiss your emptiness,
Your sonic voided space
Your elevator music makes me feel prostrated
If I keep my back against the truth, love
The best all have their backs against some truth

If we’ll never get it right,
It ends tonight

Laced for the greatest race, then lost
If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
‘Cause damned if I, if I could let it go

Anchored in this always, 
I wanted to be there
Hallowed in this ageless place,
I was unprepared
Am I always backed against the truth, love?
The best are always backed against some truth

If we’ll never get it right,
It ends tonight

If we’ll never get it right,
It ends tonight

Laced for the greatest race, then lost
If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
‘Cause damned if I, if I’d let it go

If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
Laced for the greatest race, then lost
If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
‘Cause damned if I, if I’d let it go

If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
Laced for the greatest race, then lost
If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
‘Cause damned if I, if I’d let it go

If I’m born to win, don’t let me know
Laced for the greatest race, then lost
If I’m born to win, why am I slow?
Damned if I…

Over The Mountain

Aan "Laced and Lost"

The new single from Aan's upcoming LP 'Over The Mountain' – coming to vinyl and digital December 6th on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/aan-body

"My Body" is a simple song. It’s gratitude song for my corporeal housing. Like a good leather boot, if you keep it oiled it’ll last a long time.

– Bud

Bud Wilson - lead vocals, guitar, Korg SH-2 and Juno 106 synths
Travis Leipzig - bass
Dana Valatka - drums
Eddie Bond - MonoPoly synthesizer
Cameron Spies - MonoPoly synth, programming
Andrew Lawson - backing vocals

Produced by Cameron Spies & Bud Wilson

Recorded & Mixed by Cameron Spies at The Trash Treasury – Portland, Oregon

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

FSX-064-03 © 2024 Fresh Selects. Just happy we're here.

"My Body" 
Lyrics by Bud Wilson, music by Bud Wilson & Cameron Spies

My body knows
what’s good for me and what is not
My body knows what’s right,
It carries me through the sunshine
Holds me in place,
Shows it on my face
My body knows the weight,
Worn down from a long day

Not crazy, just happy I’m here
No nothingness around me
I’m grateful

My body is all I have,
With me in sunlight
My body knows the night,
Holds me when I feel down

Not crazy, just happy I’m here
No nothingness around me
I’m grateful

Aan "My Body"

The new single from Aan's upcoming LP 'Over The Mountain' – coming to vinyl and digital December 6th on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/aan-seams

"An anxious song about impending doom. Written in the headspace of paranoia regarding 2020’s encroaching wildfires, but vague enough that any ol’ pit of the gut concern can apply."

– Bud

Bud Wilson - lead vocals, guitars, drums
Travis Leipzig - bass
Andrew Lawson - piano, Juno 106 synth, backing vocals
Cameron Spies - programming, MonoPoly synth

Produced by Cameron Spies & Bud Wilson

Recorded & Mixed by Cameron Spies at The Trash Treasury – Portland, Oregon

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

FSX-064-04 © 2024 Fresh Selects. But it won’t stop.

"Searching For Seams"
Lyrics by Bud Wilson, music by Bud Wilson & Cameron Spies

Power’s out,
Must be over the mountain
Skies ablaze in firelight

Come outside,
Ashes swirl in the hot wind

If in days we find escape, we’ll herald from the hills
Else watch the fallout, other window sills
And lift each other up, we are but human beings,
Searching for seams and pulling at strings

If in days we find escape, we’ll herald from the hills
Else watch the fallout, other window sills
And lift each other up, we are but human beings,
Searching for seams and pulling at strings

Gather what you can carry,
Time to go

If in days we find escape, we’ll herald from the hills
Else watch the fallout, other window sills
And lift each other up, we are but human beings,
Searching for seams and pulling at strings

If in days we find escape, we’ll herald from the hills
And watch the fallout, other window sills
And lift each other up, we are but human beings,
Searching for seams and pulling at strings

But it won’t stop,
‘till it’s under the rain’s shadow
No, it won’t stop
‘till it’s under the rain’s shadow (shadow…)

Must be over the mountain

Must be over the mountain

Aan "Searching For Seams"

From FSX-064: Aan 'Over The Mountain' – the new album out now everywhere: fsx.lnk.to/aan-mountain

Bud Wilson - lead vocals, guitars, SH-2 synthesizer
Andrew Lawson - vibes, piano, backing vocals
Dana Valatka - drums
Cameron Spies - programming, piano, MonoPoly synth

Lyrics by Bud Wilson, music written by Bud Wilson & Cameron Spies

Produced by Cameron Spies & Bud Wilson

Recorded & Mixed by Cameron Spies at The Trash Treasury – Portland, Oregon

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Alma chrome

Lyrics:

Marveled spans in dotted lives
All I am will have failed me there
Camels that trample man’s greatest works
Time levels passion with a smile
Again

Mountains, stars, are all alive and all will die
Set to flames, or blown and erased, it all will die
Slow decline, or flash of light, it all will die
Safe to say, that life is decay and all will die

Time won’t reprieve
 its mysteries
Speculum Aenigmate,
Time won’t reprieve

Mountains, stars, are all alive and all will die
Set to flames, or blown and erased, it all will die
Slow decline, or flash of light, it all will die
Safe to say, that life is decay and all will die

Aan "Speculum Aenigmate"

From FSX-064: Aan 'Over The Mountain' – the new album out now everywhere: fsx.lnk.to/aan-mountain

Bud Wilson - lead vocals, guitars
Travis Leipzig - bass
Dana Valatka - drums
Andrew Lawson - Juno 160 synthesizer, backing vocals
Cameron Spies - programming, MonoPoly synthesizer

Produced by Cameron Spies & Bud Wilson

Recorded & Mixed by Cameron Spies at The Trash Treasury – Portland, Oregon

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

Lyrics:

I’m alright,
I’ll just stay outside 
 under the ice in the autumn light,
I can wait

I’m your dog,
I will be yours here
Lie me down when you need some space,
I can wait

I’m alright,
I’ll just stay outside
Oh, you know each second,
I’m making it up to you, making it up to you

Freedom –
Like a hole too small to crawl through,
Freedom
Freedom –
My heart simply follows you,
Freedom

There’s no pain
Album’s soaked in so much shame,
All my thoughts go out to you
I can wait

‘Cause I’m your dog,
I’m ever patient here
Oh you know, each second,
I’m making it up to you, making it up to you

Freedom –
Like a hole too small to crawl through,
Freedom
Freedom –
My heart simply follows you,
Freedom

You always pull the same way,
Right away on me,
On my orange neon leash, neon leash

Aan "Neon Orange Leash"

This song is a part of my album doctorrobert.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-light

This Summer

Codex Universalis is more than an album — it’s a sonic manuscript. Each track is a page in a living book, fusing alternative rock, punk urgency, shoegaze dreamscapes, and raw narrative poetry.

From the icy vengeance of Cold Justice to the furious house-party chaos of Our House Now!, from the metallic haze of Glassmaker to the ghostly refrain of Empty Blocks, the album moves like a cycle: voices of workers, aviators, physicists, punks, and dreamers, all written into a single universal codex.

The coda arrives in Codex Universalis Omega — a final hymn where the Codex itself speaks, declaring its eternal presence as both archive and prophecy.

This is music for the streets, for the skies, for the erased and the unheard. A myth made of guitars, beats, and echoes.


Tracks:

Codex Universalis Alpha (0:58)
Opening invocation — a whispered prologue in sound, the Codex breathing to life.

Cold Justice (4:04)
A bleak anthem of vengeance and survival — the “sad penguin” fable transmuted into grinding riffs and stomping rhythm.

Glassmaker (3:49)
Industrial-tinged reflection on fragility, fracture, and the razor edge of broken beauty.

Ships (5:23)
A working man’s blues — shipyard chants and rust-laden guitars, labor unions and rain.

A Hunted Animal (3:32)
Korean War skyfire — a pilot dodging bullets, the photograph on the dash, mortality in flight.

Truth Proof (2:26)
Folk-punk urgency — the physicist’s lament, a song about erasure, persistence, and the hum of buried truths.

Bricks (3:04)
’77 Brooklyn street beat, graffiti and jazz ghosts — Dizzy Gillespie riffs in rap-infused cadence.

Our House Now! (5:22)
1979 LA punk house show riot — spray paint, smashed heirlooms, Crosstops and chaos.

Empty Blocks (5:50)
Shoegaze dream coda — reflections on silence, memory, echoes that refuse to die.

Codex Universalis Omega (2:17)
The Codex speaks — final hymn, closing the cycle, infinite and recursive.

Glassmaker

We do this because we have to. We do this because we are compelled. Watchmen is awesome. Alan Moore is a genius. Rorschach is my hero.

Compelled alternate version

Kavinsky - Nightcall (Alice Jemima Cover)

Daughter - How

Would You Let Me Be Near You

FSX-037: Aan 'Losing My Shadow' album out now on digital & cassette – smarturl.it/losingmyshadow

Bud Wilson - vocals, guitar, synth
Cameron Spies - synth, programming
Dana Valatka - drums

Written by Bud Wilson
Produced by Cameron Spies & Bud Wilson
Mixed by Cameron Spies
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

Executive Producers: Bud Wilson & Kenny / Fresh Selects
Co-Executive Producer: Ben Hubbird for Party Damage

Design & Layout by Tawfiq Mardini

FSX-037 © 2019 Fresh Selects

Follow:
@aanband
@freshselects

Child, protector of the light 
Don’t lose your glow, conquer everthing in sight 
Till you can’t eat you can’t sleep but you’re tired 
Don’t lose your glow, don’t ever lose your glow 

'Cause the fire, the fire in you, the fire in you is bright 
And I’ve given all I have just to give you life 
We’re the same, we’ll never separate, I’ll help you navigate 
Don’t lose your glow, don’t ever lose your glow. 

'Cause you can make, you can make your own mistakes 
You don’t need mine 

If you’re ever in danger, don’t be a stranger, I said boy don’t you understand 
You’ve got the world in the palm of your hand. 

Charm and the firelight that you’re guided by 
Don’t lose your glow, don’t ever lose your glow 
I’m just saying keep a straight line and a sane mind 
Don’t lose your glow, don’t ever lose your glow 

'Cause you can make, you can make your own mistakes 
You don’t need mine 

If you’re ever in danger, don’t be a stranger, I said boy don’t you understand 
You’ve got the world in the palm of your hand.

Losing My Shadow

Aan "Mistakes"

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