After writing an album in quarantine, Alien House (Justin Myers, L, and Anthony Tarallo) was desperate to get back in the same room. Credit: Photo c/o Alien House
As the pandemic started to clear up, Tampa electronic duo Alien House gave listeners Flora, written in a bubble, but meant for the world at large. A year later, the duo—Justin Myers and Anthony Tarallo—returned with You.

“The 12-song collection sits tightly at about 40 minutes and knits together a collage of sounds: thrift store cassette tape samples, distorted vocals, breaks that make you bop, and a percussive energy that’s impossible not to move to,” Creative Loafing Tampa Bay wrote last year.

These days, the band is selective about gigs, but Myers regularly pops up for a new electronic music series curated by Image Research Records.

UPDATED: 09/11/24 1:38 p.m. Updated to correct the album title ‘Flora’ and remove the word ambient from headline.

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This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...