For years, BJ Barham has been writing about the America that rarely makes it onto postcards: small towns, jobs that barely pay the bills, marriages falling apart, nights spent in bars and endless miles on the road. That world lies at the heart of American Aquarium, the Raleigh, North Carolina band who have turned those stories into a sound that moves between alt-country, Americana, honky-tonk and Southern rock. Across records such as Burn.Flicker.Die., Lamentations and The Fear of Standing Still, guitars and pedal steel frame songs that can be raw, melancholic or unapologetically rocking, but always have a story to tell.
