That’s The Stuff: ALO Previews New Album ‘Silver Saturdays’ With Breezy ‘Hot Damn’ Single

ALO begins a celebration of the band’s 25th-anniversary year with the announcement of a new album. Silver Saturdays, which features lead single “Hot Damn,” will be released on March 3 via Brushfire Records.

The quartet — guitarist Lebo (Dan Lebowitz), multi-instrumentalist Zach Gill, bassist Steve Adams and drummer Ezra Lipp — assembled at Sun Machine studio in Marin County, California to record the 10-track effort. Silver Saturdays marks ALO’s ninth studio release, first full-length album since 2015’s Tangle Of Time and initial LP featuring Lipp.

ALO co-produced Silver Saturdays alongside longtime engineer David Simon. All four members contributed to the writing process. The band prepped 10 new original songs for the album, mostly laid down live, which honor their progression.

“There’s always a moment in the making of an ALO record when we ask ourselves, ‘Why make another record?’” Gill queried. “For me, the answer comes in waves over time. It has to do with the spirit of musical adventure and the rhythms of laughter. It’s about the sweet release of a Lebo guitar lead over an Ezra drum beat as Steve and I weave the bass and keys around each other. Call it a jam, call it a song, call it a feeling, but it has to do with connection. For me, it feels like coming home.”

“It’s a palpable feeling when the four of us are in a room together creating music—having our individual sound waves collide as they transform and morph into one before even getting captured by the microphones,” added Lebo. “My hope for the listeners of ALO’s ‘Silver Saturdays’ is that they get to experience a bit of this invigorating feeling—and better yet, that it stirs up some inspiration of their own!”

The catchy single “Hot Damn” arrived with a video animated and directed by Deren Ney. “‘Hot Damn’ is the eureka moment, the soulful epiphany, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. As we behold our respective treasures, be they love, wisdom or an actual chest full of gold, we say to ourselves ‘Hot Damn!,” explained Zach Gill. “The song explores the theme of digging around for the good stuff in life, so we reimagined the ALO origin story as a Goonies-style suburban adventure where the kids discover the greatest treasure of all: the power of rock and roll,” added Ney.

Watch ALO’s “Hot Damn” video below:

ALO launches Tour d'Amour XVI on March 10 in Crystal Bay, Nevada. The annual run is part of a year in which the band “expects to hit the road more than usual.” Scroll below for a full list of dates.

Silver Saturdays Tracklist

1. Make It Back Home
2. Oil
3. Sparrow
4. Hot Damn
5. Keep On Giving Jane
6. Growing Your Hands Back
7. Rewind
8. Rare Air
9. Divine Fall
10. Goodnight Song