Alien Boy Announce New Acoustic Album Rearrange My Mind: Hear “Now Yr Calling Me Baby” & A Pavement Cover

Portland's Alien Boy exist within a long tradition of Pacific Northwest indie rock. They're named after a 1980 Wipers EP, and their last album, 2025's You Wanna Fade?, shares its title with a Shins song. Today, Alien Boy announce a new album that draws on a different part of the Pacific Northwest indie rock tradition, the lo-fi acoustic record. On Friday, they'll release Rearrange My Mind, a new album that reimagines songs from their catalog as four-track acoustic recordings, a la Elliott Smith.Alien Boy have always functioned as a proper band, but singer/guitarist Sonia Weber is their sole permanent member. Weber, guitarist Caleb Misclevitz, and producer Evan Mersky recorded Rearrange My Mind at Red Lantern Studio, and it includes radically reworked versions of some past Alien Boy songs, as well as a few new songs and a hushed cover of Pavement's 1999 single "Spit On A Stranger." Here's what Weber says about the record:I’ve always loved the idea that a good song can shapeshift. I’ve wanted to do an acoustic record for a while now, but after You Wanna Fade? came out I played a solo-acoustic set on a local radio show and started thinking a lot more about which of our songs could fit...