Atta Boy

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Resurfacing like cicadas, L.A.-born Atta Boy has never been in a hurry. Instead, responding to some strange seasonal instinct when it comes to recording, their unique, comforting, and yet aching blend of pop-Americana seems to arrive in waves, well-formed, yet hungry and soul-searching. Navigating the emotional peaks and valleys of American adolescence, this close-knit crew shaped those experiences into a considerably mature debut, 2012’s Out of Sorts, to be released before they were old enough to order a drink. And then they disappeared. “It was almost like we were some urban legend,” muses keyboardist Dashel Thompson, ``the album existed, and we existed, but Atta Boy was hibernating.” Back-end barn-burner, BOYS, captures this catch-me-up energy. Holding court ahead of the record, Brolin brought out a notebook and asked each bandmate for five things that make them happy. “I wanted to check-in with the boys, and bring their experiences together into the album,” she explains. It’s in this spirit of entropy and negentropy that Atta Boy have once again found themselves coalescing around a shared, collective pang that drives their collaboration and their joyful celebration of all things living, dying, dissolving, and reforming– like a perennial posy pushing through the underbrush to bloom under the first shouts of springtime sunshine, beautiful and golden. Again. And again.

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Female 63.78%
Male 36.22%

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Hispanic 5.59%
White 81.91%
Asian 11.11%
African American 1.39%

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Press
LA WEEKLY - Atta Boy Recalls Alex G
Atta Boy Recalls Alex G: Eden Brolin of L.A. indie-pop band Atta Boy told us about her Alex G experience. Eden Brolin: Like many contributors to this column before me have prefaced– I have seen some magnificent and awe-striking shows that have inspired me, transported me, and made perfect imprints on my life. Truth be told, anyone who dares to share something they’ve created in front of an audience is amazing to me, especially considering my band’s track record when it comes to playing live (it doesn’t exist). That being said, it was undeniably hard deciding what to choose as THE best gig I ever saw. But here we are.
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ATWOOD MAG - Atta Boy’s “Walden Pond” Reminds Us of What We’ve Lost & Tells Us How to Get It Back
Certain sounds and smells can transport us back to very specific times in our lives; times when things were simple and sweet and untainted by the burdens of adult life. We all have memories like this, even if we can’t always access them.
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LUNA COLLECTIVE - Q&A: Atta Boy Gracefully Explores Aging in New Album ‘Crab Park’
DISTORTED GUITAR, LYRICS THAT ARE WRENCHING IN THEIR — plaintiveness and in their pleading, a vocalist whose twangy whispers bring to mind Faye Webster vis-à-vis Joanna Newsom. This is the very core of indie-pop quartet Atta Boy’s third studio album, Crab Park.
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DIGEST ONLINE - A Conversation With Atta Boy
For many bands, a hiatus often signals the end of an era. Whether it stems from creative differences, in-house conflict or other miscellaneous reasons, band members taking a break and heading toward different pursuits is just a part of musicianship, and always has been. It’s not very often that fans see a group break off after their very first album, especially when that album is a commercial success. For Atta Boy, this may have just been the key to success eight years down the road, with the release of their second album, “Big Heart Manners.”
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KLOF - Atta Boy: Big Heart Manners
When you wait eight years to come up with a follow-up album – especially when you were fresh out of college on your début – there’s no guarantee that you will be the same musicians on the second release. It also reveals a casual approach to the band, not needing to keep up the machinery of the operation, but reactivating it when you know the time is right. There’s certainly some of that laid-back attitude in this release from LA-based Atta Boy (not to be confused with the Indiana quartet Attaboy). The opening shuffle ‘Shade’ refuses to start the album with a bang, preferring to draw the listener in at its own pace, and the next track ‘Devoted’ similarly ambles along.
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ALSOCOOL MAG - Atta Boy Explores Living In Between Grief and Joy in New Album "Crab Park"
Atta Boy’s album Crab Park is an October 2022 release with an autumnal feel. This album was created for two moods: the loving feeling of making dinner for your family when it’s 5 PM and already dark, or the ennui of walking on a secluded urban beach.
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AMERICAN SONGWRITER - Atta Boy Returns after Eight Years With A More Focused Sound
It took eight years for the LA based Atta Boy to decide to follow-up 2012’s debut Out of Sorts. Lots of water passed under the foursome’s collective bridge since their last album, recorded after the group’s first year of college. The time away, and the personal/professional development that comes with it, makes this a more cohesive collection.
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