When Alien Boy first started playing shows in 2018, venues had no idea how to handle their fearsome three-guitar setup. Seven years later, the Portland music scene is inundated with loud, young rock bands, some of whom (including Growing Pains and Rhododendron) had members mentored by singer Sonia Weber at Portland’s School Of Rock. Yet Alien Boy’s sound remains distinct, an impossibly lustrous wall of guitar noise that sounds like a waterfall of molten gold, already fully formed on 2018’s Sleeping Lessons and its epochal opener “Somewhere Without Me.”
