Is This A Queue
Rough & ready gruffy guitar driven alternative rock on AD 93!

Is This A Queue

Alpha Maid

€ 23,95
  • LP
Label
AD 93
Expected release
31 October 2025
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Description

Alpha Maid presents her debut album ‘Is this a queue'

Beginning from a sense of frustration at the predictable and boring narratives and systems that we live under, and the feeling that such rules were the rules of the universe, Alpha Maid formed an interest in particle physics.

“We only know 4% of the universe, there is hope in that and the unknown 96%. I found excitement and wonder in that. The theories I was reading about relied more on the conditions of the present moment, and it made the idea of living in the moment feel more accessible.  It started to be possible to see present time from all these different angles, and to have infinite more options to choose where to be next.”

Written across many years and different places it documents a journey and the people Alpha Maid met while moving around, collating moments of the present.

Her guitar remains a constant amongst an array of sonic influences throughout: from dub which honours her Jamaican heritage and the Windrush Generation, to the twinges of an emo love song in ‘On Smoke‘. 

Is this a queue revels in the magic of that which we cannot see and coherently understand, and the narratives that have been shrunk down to fit. Remembering, continuing, forgetting, paying attention, building, navigating, contributing, time.

Tracklist

  • 1.6-9
  • 2.2 Numbers (Feat. Leo Hermitt)
  • 3.Guarded
  • 4.CC
  • 5.Goat Rosetta
  • 6.Why We Have To Move (Feat. Valentina Magaletti)
  • 7.On Smoke
  • 8.Strut In Straddle
  • 9.Palimpsest (Feat. Coby Sey, Ben Vince)

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