"Holiday would be a fine album at any moment, but it seems especially timely right now. Let's take a quick inventory: The contours are stark and sleek, and it burns with a weirdly cold heat. The production is elaborate in a streamlined way, the melodies infectious. A sentimental digi-crooner is orbited by hums and blips, as if rendering your voice and music robotic gives you carte blanche to be messily human, even maudlin. Sound familiar? Suddenly, and just in time for the holidays, it's as if indie pop fans immune to the charms of Kanye West have an 808's and Heartbreak of their very own." - Pitchforkmedia.com


Alaska In Winter came about when art student, Brandon Bethancourt spent a semester recording music in an isolated cabin on the south coast of Alaska. Upon arrival back in New Mexico, he teamed up with Zach Condon of Beirut, Heather Trost of A Hack And A Hacksaw (a Neutral Milk Hotel side-project), and Rosina Roybal (who played viola in the Kanye West symphony) and began fleshing out his Alaska recordings. The end result was last year's widely-acclaimed debut album 'Dance Party In The Balkans'.

Following an extensive tour schedule which included jaunts across the US and Canada with Beirut and Colleen and 2 headline tours of Europe, Bethancourt relocated to Berlin where he immediately began writing and recording material for the next Alaska In Winter album. The first tracks from the Berlin sessions have recently been released by Regular Beat on a limited 12"/download entitled 'Remixes' while the much-anticipated album "Holiday" is also out now.

Listen to clips from the new album 'Holiday' here >>   Buy 'Holiday' here >>

'Remixes EP' - 6 track 12" / download out now - listen to clips here >>

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