Exile represents a sea change for Aloud. Bandleaders Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa spent over a year in the studio creating the album, following the departure of their original rhythm section. The result is a beautiful and strange collection of songs, featuring often-unfulfilled, complex characters coming to terms with bleak circumstances, while searching for hope and relief in unlikely places.

The mid-tempo single 'Old Soldier' starts with a whisper and grows into a brilliant, psychedelic explosion of sound and instrumentation, including heavily effected electric guitars, marching drums, euphonium, trumpets, strings, mandolin and Henry and Jen’s opulent vocal harmonies.

In the love-turned-death ballad, 'To Die At Sea', Jen sings longingly over an acoustic guitar and lush string quartet. The song is so beautiful and alluring that the listener easily ignores the deeper macabre message, as the siren entices her lover to dive with her to "the bottom of the sea".

Another single, 'Darkest Days', takes a lighter tone. This Beatles-esque, sing-a-long features Henry crooning "Love, love, love, we all need love, to get us through the darkest days to come". Henry says the meaning is, "We're all stuck together on this blue orb and we all go through personal crises, but for better or worse, this is it. There's no sense in not having a positive connection with the people around you."

Title track 'Exile In The Night', is dominated by a Latin-tinged rhythm, ghostly soundscapes and a haunting melody. The song was heavily influenced by the music of Feist and the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas (the celebrated, exiled Cuban poet). Jen explains the song’s origin, "There's a history of exile in our families, so it always been something that was always around. I wanted to write about that feeling of seeing some other place in the city you now find yourself in, or seeing ghosts and old faces in those of strangers."

Overall, Exile is Aloud’s most sophisticated and experimental album to date, showcasing their new-found love of orchestration, Sgt. Pepper-like production, and rich, lyrical imagery.

Exile is Aloud’s third full-length CD, and is the debut album from talented producer/engineer Daniel Nicholas Daskivich. The album was fan-funded via Kickstarter.com.

Aloud will be touring as in support of Exile this fall, returning to CMJ this October before heading off on their debut coast-to-coast tour, encompassing the entire US in over 50 performances.

September 17, 2010: The Boston Globe
Two for the road
Aloud ramps up its sound, pares down the band, and hits the road with ‘Exile’
Interview

“Exile,’’ is arguably their most expansive, sophisticated, and stylistically diverse work to date."

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September 30, 2010: The Boston Phoenix
Aloud-er than bombs: The Exile era gets kickstarted with a party in the Fens
Interview & Video

"Imagine getting married, selling off all your random material crap, and heading out on tour? Aloud are living the dream. 'Instead of buying a house, we're touring cross-country,' says de la Osa, laughing."

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September 22, 2010: The Weekly Dig (Boston)
Expelling Exclamation: Aloud - Exile
CD Review

"Aloud has delivered a stunning, multifaceted opus... Exile exudes confidence, and great things are still to come."

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September 23, 2010: Playground Boston Blog
PGB Pick: Aloud “Exile” CD Release Party @ Church TONIGHT 9/23
Show Preview

"Aloud have reinvented themselves with their new album, truly showing off their overwhelming songwriting prowess. Front-to-back, this new album is downright beautiful!"

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September 23, 2010: Cheap Thrills Boston Blog
Thur 9/23: Film, College Night, Music
Show Preview

"...one of the best straight-up rock shows you can see/hear... Be prepared to be blown away."

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September 22, 2010: Boston Band Crush Blog
C.D. On Songs: Aloud - "Old Soldier"
Song Review

""Old Soldier" is a mature piece... deliciously advanced, as if Aloud was bitten by a radioactive songwriter (beware of those) and imbued with some next-level skills of composition and arrangement, beyond the ken of your average, everyday songwriter."

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September 22, 2010: The Deli Blog
Aloud's Exile CD Release Tomorrow at Church
Show preview & CD Review

"Exile," the band's new LP, is dark and densely orchestrated. Acoustic piano and horns cast deep overtones over the traditional rock instruments and lend the songs a weight altogether new to the band... this much of a departure in the studio produced such a rich and interesting result..."

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September 21, 2010: Boston Band Crush Blog
Band Crush: Aloud
Interview

"Aloud is one of those self-aware bands whose consciousness of sonic blending and balancing produce something truly beautiful."

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September 15, 2010: The Boston Phoenix
The best of the season's local pop and rock
Album mention & show recommendation

"Keeping with the times, Boston riff-raging quartet Aloud enlisted the help of Kickstarter to fund their third studio album, Exile... providing us with the kind of sharp, literary-minded rock passion we've come to expect from scene veterans who have little time for trends."

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August 25, 2010: Performer Blog
ALOUD presents new album: EXILE
Album mention

"Young, dynamic indie-rock group ALOUD (Performer's December 2009 cover artist) is proud to present their new album EXILE, to be released in October 12, 2010 on Lemon Merchant Records."

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August 8, 2010: Ryan’s Smashing Life Blog
Final hrs to help Aloud rock America
Album preview

"The New Aloud – One of New England’s best contemporary bands has somehow managed to get much better over the last year. Songwriting, honest emotional surrender and compelling strong structure are keys to the new songs on Exile"

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June 29, 2010: New Haven Advocate (New Haven, CT)
Aloud Coming To The Space In New Haven
Show preview

"String quartets and trumpets and euphoniums … oh, my! Boston’s Aloud is experimenting with all different types of instruments — and doing so with a high regard for songwriting. Aloud is currently working on a new album that is unlike anything the indie rock duo has done before… Even more refreshing, distinctive qualities of Aloud’s musical approach can be found in its live show. You won’t be confined to habitual show etiquette, uncomfortably standing in the same spot of a packed venue or club for a couple hours, only socializing with your friends. Aloud gets its audience involved."

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December 2009: Performer Magazine
Aloud
Cover story

"Jen de la Osa is a dynamo on stage and on record. She’s a petite woman with a larger-than-life voice and her guitar playing seemingly has its own personality with all its side notes and pick-slides. Her vocals are one of the hallmarks of Aloud’s sound; powerful enough to blow the doors down, yet accurate enough to blow just the right doors down. Partner Beguiristain’s work has its own personality, one that counterpoints de la Osa’s bombast and raw power. Whereas de la Osa rides a chariot of blood and thunder, Beguiristain simply sidles up to your ear with an almost conversational style of lyric and melody."

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Exile cover art

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