{"id":5793,"date":"2022-06-01T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:43:08","slug":"aly-aj-for-stylecaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/aly-aj-for-stylecaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Aly & AJ for StyleCaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check Aly & AJ<\/strong>‘s beautiful photoshoot for StyleCaster<\/strong> and interview<\/a> they gave.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 [x014] PHOTOSHOOT > Aly & AJ for StyleCaster<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\nAly and AJ are parked outside their recording studio in Los Angeles, joining a video call from their car as early afternoon sunlight spills across the dashboard. Aly \u2014 the older half of the eponymous musical duo she helms with her sister AJ \u2014 is fresh-faced and freckled, her tousled hair peeking over a relaxed white tee. She looks over often at AJ, who sits in the driver\u2019s seat and sports an ocean blue sweater with a daisy stitched into its center. Birds are, quite literally, chirping in the distance.
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\nIt\u2019s the first Monday of spring, so it\u2019s only fitting that the sisters have embodied their city\u2019s vernal energy. They also happen to be on the precipice of a new season in their own lives: A yet-to-be-announced album is officially on the way. \u201cThe songs are done. And we knew exactly what the songs were going to be,\u201d AJ says, sharing that she and Aly picked 11 tracks for the new record. (Admittedly? \u201cIt might turn into 10.\u201d)
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\nFinishing touches are already well underway as the sisters speak from the parking lot. In fact, moments after our call, Aly, 33, and AJ, 31, would head into the studio for their penultimate day of post-production on their new LP before embarking on the North American leg of their tour in support of \u201cA Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun,\u201d their fourth studio album released in May 2021. The record, which marked their first full-length project in 14 years, landed just in time for what turned out to be one of the most sumptuous summers on record\u2014before the dawn of the Delta variant sent us back, bewildered, into our homes. Yet for a time, \u201cA Touch of the Beat\u201d mirrored our joyous, if bumbling, return to the world.
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\nMuch of the record was set to the sprawling, sun-soaked landscape of Aly and AJ\u2019s Southern California youth, with lyrics exalting the pleasures\u2014and pitfalls\u2014of human connection. On lead single \u201cSlow Dancing,\u201d the sisters relish in a familiar sense of longing after a period of solitude: \u201cI don’t need anything fancy\/ I just need me and you slow dancing\/ Hell’s bending, keeping me captive\/ Heaven’s here, it’s right where you’re standing,\u201d goes the chorus. On the other hand, there are songs like \u201cPersonal Cathedrals\u201d\u2014a rollicking Americana-tinged track about landing at a lame Hollywood party only to leave early, capturing the jaded spirit of pandemic wallflowers everywhere.
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\nA deluxe version of \u201cA Touch of the Beat\u201d arrived nine months after its initial release, giving the original record, the majority of which was written in 2019, a rare extended life of its own. This languid rollout was both a symptom and a gift of the stunted times we\u2019re living in; but for Aly and AJ, touring finally brings this album\u2019s enduring chapter to a close. \u201cIt doesn’t feel like it’s stale by any means to AJ and I, because we’ve only gotten to perform these songs maybe a half a dozen times in front of crowds over the last couple of years,\u201d Aly says. \u201cIt does feel really exciting to us to be able to bring this out on the road.\u201d First stop? Their very own California, of course.
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