The quintessential pop band of it-girls, The Aces<\/strong>, just released their new album Gold Star Baby<\/em><\/strong> via SoundOn<\/strong>. A concept album that doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously, Gold Star Baby<\/em> is a metaphorical club in every city where if you know\u2026you know. But everyone and anyone is invited to the best party of the summer. If their previous album is the backstory of discovering their identity, Gold Star Baby<\/em> is in turn a celebration of queerness and escapist, sapphic, disco-pop fun. The largely self-produced album isn\u2019t just an evolution for the 4-piece, but where they\u2019ve been headed all along as they shed the weight of painful transparency and allow listeners to see them arrive liberated \u2014 Listen here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The band shared, \u201cWhen we started making \u2018Gold Star Baby,\u2019 there was one goal in mind: we just wanted to have fun. Pop melodies, pulsing four to the floor rhythm, shimmering guitars, and the funkiest bass lines we\u2019ve written yet. It was simple. If it didn\u2019t make us move, we wrote another song. All we wanted to do was dance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Opening with the narrated \u201cWelcome to Gold Star Baby,\u201d The Aces set up the velvet-roped sonic queue into the hottest club in town; almost a modern spin on George Clinton\u2019s P-Funk mythology. The club\u2019s musical guests that night? None other than The Aces, naturally.\u00a0<\/p>\n The band begins crafting the perfect night out, even if it\u2019s just the glitter-glossed mirage of escapism, across tracks like \u201cJealous,\u201d \u201cThe Magic,\u201d the album\u2019s title track, and \u201cYou Got Me\u201d for the clubgoers who start the night early and stay until the sun comes up. Then we reach the phone call that is \u201cThe Girls Interlude\u201d where the fashionably latecomers figure out pregame plans and what they\u2019re going to wear to Gold Star Baby<\/em> to make their ex, who they\u2019ll inevitably run into, jealous.\u00a0<\/p>\n As we cross into the back half of the album, the flirtiness of the songs mirror the point in the night where people start pairing off with who they\u2019ve been making eyes at since they arrived. From \u201cShe Likes Me\u201d to \u201cFire in the Hole\u201d there\u2019s the back and forth of trying to determine if this is just a fling or something more. \u201cSpending the Night\u201d is full of a romanticized hesitancy but album closer \u201cI\u2019m Sweet (I\u2019m Mean)\u201d immediately bounces back in confrontational confidence. And until the next time, the music fades, the lights come up and everyone inside Gold Star Baby<\/em> has to step out into the blinding sun of a new day.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Aces<\/strong> perfectly sum it up with, \u201cThis album is all about joy, confidence, even cockiness, and sex appeal. We feel now that we\u2019re grown women, we can explore those things in a way that feels authentic and exciting. This album is for anyone that\u2019s looking for an escape in the more than challenging world we live in. This album is a celebration. Welcome to \u2018Gold Star Baby.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \nGOLD STAR BABY<\/em>\u00a0WORLD TOUR Kicks Off This Fall After Festival Performances at ALL THINGS GO NYC and DC. \u2014 SEE ALL DATES AND BUY TICKETS\u00a0<\/strong>HERE<\/a><\/h6>\n
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