The Saxophones

Oakland duo The Saxophones announce their new album, No Time For Poetry, out November 7th on Full Time Hobby. Listen to their first single, “Too Big For California,” with its evocative imagery of “trampling the lupine” and “the shanty towns are burning,” which paints a picture of a modern California grappling with deep-seated issues like homelessness and wildfires.

Ahead of their European tour, The Saxophones share their new EP ‘All There Is’ featuring some low-key, blissful alternative versions of songs from their latest album ‘To Be A Cloud’.

On ‘To Be A Cloud’, The Saxophones balance their music on a knife edge – a kind of chilled-out, margaritas-at-the-mall apocalyptica versus a combination of widescreen, salt-tinged psychedelia and dusky bar-room jazz, where big skies and big ideas vie with personal heartache and subdued, nostalgic longing.

Our Song of the Day comes from The Saxophones with The Mist, from their new album ‘To Be A Cloud’, which was influenced by the peaceful bays, ridges and beaches of Inverness, California. With musical nods to Eden’s Island and Stan Getz’s bossa nova records.

Songs of the Saxophones, the debut album of The Saxophones (husband & wife duo Alexi Erenkov & Alison Alderdice from Oakland, CA) is out now via Full Time Hobby. Watch their new video for Mysteries Revealed.

The Saxophones are husband & wife duo Alexi Erenkov & Alison Alderdice. The songs which make up the debut album were formed and written during a period in which the pair were living on a boat during a very wet winter in the San Francisco Bay Area.