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October 21, 2011: Driftwood Magazine (Baltimore, MD) |
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March 29, 2011: Creative Loafing/Vibes: The Music Blog (Charlotte, NC) Viva Viva, Aloud, Public Relations, KPSoloman5000 Show review “Before you knew it, there was a full band on stage jamming out in beautiful harmony that left you breathless and fighting tears of catharsis. I cannot stress enough how talented these people are, often trading instruments off throughout the set. Their melodies and vocal harmonies have the capacity to give you butterflies while their percussion and bass get your hips swinging. And they put off such a wonderful vibe that even on the dreariest of days you could put on their record and feel a thousand times better.” |
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February 17, 2011: Driftwood Magazine (Baltimore, MD) Review: Aloud, Exile Album review “Exile covers an impressive breadth of indie rock styles… a little gloom, a little sunlight, and a lot of heart. It’s an album that breathes, builds, and surprises. …It may require some close listening, but the reward is outstanding depth and complexity.” |
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February 16, 2011: Eleven Magazine (St. Louis, MO) Aloud – Off Broadway Album review/Show preview “Favoring introspection over rock, lyricism over bombast, the new (and better) production retreats from the space Aloud used to occupy. It is lush but reserved. The album patiently navigates moody and desperate waters, cresting opportunistically on songs like ‘Counterfeit Star’…. The Aloud of Exile is no less engaging than before; the evacuated space doesn’t create distance from the band, but instead invites you to join in the dialogue. Expect Aloud to be as up-close as ever, but even more intimate.” |
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 February 14, 2011: Pittsburgh Music Report Aloud – Garfield Artworks – 2/20/11 – Pittsburgh – Concert Preview Interview “Mainly we’d like to continue making records and hoping they’re better than the previous as well as playing as many tours as possible. Recording and touring means we’re working and we like to be busy.” – Jen |
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 February 3, 2011: NeuFutur Magazine    Aloud – Exile (CD) Album review “Down to members Jennifer de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain, both who share vocal and guitar duties (and occasionally pick up the bass or play piano or glockenspiel), the band turns in their strongest effort yet with Exile, their third release.” |
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January 29, 2011: Cheap Thrills Chocolate, Australia Art, Too Much MusicShow preview “Aloud has blown me away every time I’ve seen them from lean, mean anthemic rock to more introspective stuff. They’ve been out on the road perching the gospel that rock is not dead, and we get a show before they head out again.” |
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January 25, 2011: Time Out Boston Interview: AloudInterview “Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain make up Aloud, the the hardest-working band … in Boston…. Fresh out of months in the tour van, de la Osa and Beguiristain chatted with Time Out about their life on the road, and why they can’t wait to get back out there.” |
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| December 7, 2010: Atlanta Music Guide CD Review: Aloud — Exile; Playing Smith’s Olde Bar, December 14 Album review/Show preview “Beguirstain now gently strums on his guitars and mandolins, and de la Osa demonstrates that her voice is as beautiful as it is raucous. With Exile, Aloud have redefined themselves as a moody and melodic duo.” |
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November 26, 2010: Journal Santa Fe Duo Shares Songwriting, Singing Duties Album review/Show preview “Aloud has been placed on numerous critics’ ‘it’ lists, but Beguiristain says the group’s focus is elsewhere. We try not to pay attention to a lot of the critics, he said. We’re just trying to make music the way we want to.” |
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 November 24, 2010: Amarillo Globe News (Armarillo, TX)Aloud Boils Down Sound Interview/Show preview “We usually include a lot of loud rock ‘n’ roll,” said band member Henry Beguiristain. “But this time, we started with the basic elements, an acoustic guitar and vocals, then added only what we thought was absolutely necessary to the sound of the song.” |
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| November 1, 2010: Performer Magazine Aloud “Exile” Album review “Aloud has the mysterious ability to send its listeners through an atmospheric adventure by creating intelligently structured songs, bound together by a strong lyrical presence.” |
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| November 5, 2010: Salt Lake City Weekly Live: Music Picks Nov. 4-10 Show preview/Album review Exile is “…an album of expansive, orchestral pop, and as finely tuned as the production might be, it still relies on the distinct boy/girl harmonies of de la Osa and Beguiristain to succeed. And it does.” |
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| November 1, 2010: Reviewer Magazine (San Francisco) Indie Takeover: Aloud “Exile” Album review “Aloud are nothing if not an original sounding band: there’s nothing ‘retro’ about them, even if they use regular instruments for the most part and don’t create all the sounds with a computer program they still crank out some fresh, new material that stands up on its own.” |
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 October 28, 2010: The Sun Herald (Southern Mississippi)An appealing musical smorgasbord Album review “Exile is the most sophisticated, experimental album Aloud has recorded… Lovers of layered, lovely old-style pop will enjoy this one.” |
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| October 22, 2010: Stereo Subversion Aloud – Exile Album review “…a studied, measured grace is fully explored on tracks that hinge on exposed vocals and carefully crafted lyrics.” |
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| October 20, 2010: My Record Journal Boston’s Aloud brings us to “Exile” Album review “…bandleaders Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa add a more mature, sophisticated sound on this latest release… you feel the chemistry between the two.” |
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 September 30, 2010: The Boston PhoenixAloud-er than bombs: The Exile era gets kickstarted with a party in the Fens Interview & Video “Imagine getting married, selling off all your random material crap, and heading out on tour? Aloud are living the dream. ‘Instead of buying a house, we’re touring cross-country,’ says de la Osa, laughing.” |
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| September 22, 2010: Weekly Dig Aloud: Exile Album review “Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain have made a name for themselves with the searing vocals and straight-forward rock efforts of 2008′s Fan The Fury. With Exile… Aloud has delivered a stunning, multifaceted opus, proving that Beguiristain can do more than bust guitar strings and de la Osa is hardly just another girl screaming into a microphone.” |
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 September 23, 2010: Playground BostonPGB Pick: Aloud “Exile” CD Release Party @ Church TONIGHT 9/23 Show preview “Aloud have reinvented themselves with their new album, truly showing off their overwhelming songwriting prowess. Front-to-back, this new album is downright beautiful!” |
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| September 23, 2010: Cheap Thrills Thur 9/23: Film, College Night, Music Show preview “…one of the best straight-up rock shows you can see/hear… Be prepared to be blown away.” |
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 September 22, 2010: The Deli Aloud’s “Exile” CD Release Tomorrow at Church Album review “Exile, the band’s new LP, is dark and densely orchestrated. Acoustic piano and horns cast deep overtones over the traditional rock instruments and lend the songs a weight altogether new to the band…. If this much of a departure in the studio produced such a rich and interesting result, their always-electric live performance will be all the more memorable given the new material.” |
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| September 22, 2010: Boston Band Crush C.D. on Songs: Old Soldier Song review ” ‘Old Soldier’ is a mature piece… deliciously advanced, as if Aloud was bitten by a radioactive songwriter (beware of those) and imbued with some next-level skills of composition and arrangement, beyond the ken of your average, everyday songwriter.” |
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 September 17, 2010: The Boston GlobeTwo for the road Feature “Exile is a slow but powerful burn…. Layers of piano, euphonium, trumpet, and even a string section … create a multitextured template for songs that roam and veer from ruminative (“Burning Bright’’) to strident (“Counterfeit Star’’) to quietly harrowing and haunted (“To Die at Sea’’).” |
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 September 14, 2010: The Boston PhoenixFall Local Pop Preview: Changing scene Show preview “Keeping with the times, Boston riff-raging quartet Aloud enlisted the help of Kickstarter to fund their third studio album, Exile. With the charitable help of 98 backers, Aloud ringleaders Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain achieved their $5000 donation goal in early August, giving birth to Exile and providing us with the kind of sharp, literary-minded rock passion we’ve come to expect from scene veterans who have little time for trends.” |
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 August 8, 2010: Ryan’s Smashing LifeFinal hrs to help Aloud rock America Album preview “The New Aloud – One of New England’s best contemporary bands has somehow managed to get much better over the last year. Songwriting, honest emotional surrender and compelling strong structure are keys to the new songs on Exile” |
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 June 29, 2010: New Haven Advocate (New Haven, CT)Aloud Coming To The Space In New Haven Show preview “String quartets and trumpets and euphoniums … oh, my! Boston’s Aloud is experimenting with all different types of instruments — and doing so with a high regard for songwriting. Aloud is currently working on a new album that is unlike anything the indie rock duo has done before… Even more refreshing, distinctive qualities of Aloud’s musical approach can be found in its live show. You won’t be confined to habitual show etiquette, uncomfortably standing in the same spot of a packed venue or club for a couple hours, only socializing with your friends. Aloud gets its audience involved.” |
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 April 9, 2010: Playground Boston (Boston, MA)Aloud and The Beatings @ Great Scott Show review “Everything gets harder, louder, and more intense when Aloud plays live – you think they’re studio stuff is good, you NEED to get your ass down to one of their shows. Lights flashing, guitars blasting, drums crashing – Aloud is easily one of the best live acts in the city. Highlights of Aloud’s set included a stripped-down mandolin version of “The Last Time,” guest-clappers, the poppy love song “You Got Me Wrong” taking on power-balladesque tendencies when played live, and an amazing performance of “When The Ants Attack the Queen” (with all levels jacked up to 11) that absolutely tore the place down to close out their set. The band makes excellent use of back-and-forth vocals and harmonies between singers Henry Beguiristain and Jen De La Osa – a complementary style that is reflected in their guitar technique as well.” |
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 December 1, 2009: Performer MagazineAloud Cover story “Aloud’s cycle has been buoyed from the beginning by their superb songwriting and performing skills. Jen de la Osa is a dynamo on stage and on record. She’s a petite woman with a larger-than-life voice and her guitar playing seemingly has its own personality with all its side notes and pick-slides. Her vocals are one of the hallmarks of Aloud’s sound; powerful enough to blow the doors down, yet accurate enough to blow just the right doors down. Partner Beguiristain’s work has its own personality, one that counterpoints de la Osa’s bombast and raw power. Whereas de la Osa rides a chariot of blood and thunder, Beguiristain simply sidles up to your ear with an almost conversational style of lyric and melody.” |
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| November 17, 2009: Columbus Alive (Columbus, OH) What to do Tuesday Show preview “Aloud is a Boston band with boy-girl vocals and big hooks, but they’re more unpredictable than the paint-by-numbers pop band that comes to mind. Jen de la Osa sings like Heartless Bastards’ Erika Wennerstrom and is nearly as sassy. Henry Beguiristain isn’t as endearing, but he sounds great when the pair interlocks in harmonic bliss. The overall feel comes off much like a slightly bluesy take on the New Pornographers’ sugar rush pop — a worthy reason to venture to Bernie’s, 1896 N. High St., to see them play tonight with Help Is On The Way and Keith Jenkins & the Moving Parts.” November 12, 2009: Offbeat Magazine (New Orleans, LA)  Preview: Aloud at Cafe Prytania TonightArticle “Boston’s Aloud is appropriately enigmatic for a male/female-fronted rock band with a white, red, and black color scheme. Co-lead vocalists/guitarists Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain have played together for the last 13 years… and though their rock is not so feedback blues-driven, Aloud’s musical energy does recall the White Stripes, if only there were two Jacks, no Meg.” November 11, 2009: UWeekly (Columbus, OH) Aloud Show preview “Henry Beguiristain could make elegantly sad young music – so could Jen de la Osa – but when he contemplates being “fatalistic,” she rhymes it with “sadistic.” Aloud’s “Fan The Fury” updates X’s Exene Cervenka and John Doe’s dynamically domestic civil war, now spilling into the streets and vice versa, as hyper-aware, media-bombarded harmonies and discord fall into place and fly by, between the sheets and screens. The personal and the political trust and bust, while Aloud’s co-leaders’ voices and guitars insist, “The end will be our beginning,” once again.” November 4, 2009: Flagpole Magazine (Athens, GA) Weekly Picks Show preview “Everything I’ve read about this band’s live show suggests a “fiery” “chaotic” and “high-energy” performance. The tunes seem to be all of the above, with a driving rhythm section and bluesy, distorted guitars. Singer Jen de la Osa has some really exceptional pipes, at times forlorn and dreamy like Fiona Apple and at other times roaring like Grace Slick or maybe even a slightly more lilting Janis Joplin. She trades off vocal duties with longtime collaborator Henry Beguirstain who has a more modern rock sound.” August 30, 2009: The Philadelphia Inquierer (Philadelphia, PA) 7 Days Show preview “Pure pop for now people. Powered by the twin vocal/guitar attack of Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain, the Boston-based combo Aloud somehow succeeds in uniting chamber pop with rock anthems.”  August 28, 2009: Teaparty BostonThe Search for White Jeans and Other Adventures with Aloud Interview “Aloud played The Luxury’s CD release at the Paradise back in July, which continues to be one of the most talked about Boston events of 2009, and Jessie and I recently caught up with them after their sound check at TT the Bear’s Place before their high-impact show on August 6th with The Lights Out. Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa, the pair behind all things Aloud, left Miami for Boston nearly ten years ago in order to capitalize on their artistic enthusiasm and mutual appreciation for meticulously crafted lyrics and songwriting. They haven’t looked back since.” August 28, 2009: Boston Band Crush Feature Crush: C.D. on Songs, 8/28/09, One Night Band edition Song Review Aloud is one of those groups that has the luxury of having two exquisitely talented vocalists in Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa. This embarrassment of vocal riches means Aloud has to choose who’s going to sing lead, but the two work together so well in this particular track that you barely notice the differentiation. August 05, 2009: Serve The Song Center Stage with Aloud – Part 2 Interview “In part two of my interview with Aloud, Jen and Henry talk about the recording studio, videos and online promotion, and balancing the business end of their music with creative stuff.” [Part 2 of 2] August 03, 2009: Serve The Song Center Stage with Aloud – Part 1 Interview “Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain have been writing, singing, and playing guitar together since they were young. Today they are the core of Boston-based Aloud. The songs on their sophomore album Fan the Fury are an engaging collection of observations, each expressed with urgency and true emotion.” [Part 1 of 2] June 30, 2009: Boston Band Crush Feature Crush: C.D. on Songs, 6/30/09 Song Review “If Neil Young had Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s, Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain of Aloud provide an update of maybe not her status but their own in ‘Hard Up In The 2000s.’ The drums and the chord progression plod ahead like a heart monitor as Doctor de la Osa gives her own prognosis on life in the current century. The once-per-measure piano chords sound out a dirge akin to John Lennon’s “Mother,” minus Lennon’s atonal primal screaming but plus singer de la Osa’s powerful vocal delivery.” April 1, 2009: Pilgrims of Sound All Things Aloud Article “Aloud is, through all the experiment, mood swings, and live shows, a rock band by the Webster’s definition. Their trick is that they’re aware of where and when they are and embrace the warts as well as the gold of the times. They are a statement that through all the bells and whistles at work on music, the heart of American youth remains in the 4 piece, verse-chorus-verse, kids in their mom’s basement and under furbished practice space, rock and roll ideology.” March 13, 2009: The Wire Aloud at the Muddy River, March 5, 2009 Live Review “The four band members demonstrate striking chemistry onstage. Beguiristain occasionally sidles up to Osa to sing into the same microphone, and the pair often meet center-stage to play guitar face to face.… The music is raw rock with a hard punk edge to certain tunes, all rooted around a classic Americana core.” February 12, 2009: The Post and Courier: Preview Preview & Interview “The brainchild of lead guitarist Henry Beguiristain and Jen de La Osa, the band combines two voices for triumphant harmonies. Individually, each singer brings something different to the table. De La Osa’s deep, almost Joplin-like voice adds thickness to the songs, while Beguiristain’s vocals steadies the John Lennon-inspired tracks.” November 17, 2008: Boston Herald Aloud and clear: It’ll be rockin’ time ‘I Just Want To Witness…’ Preview & Interview “Aloud knows you like to watch… the local rock band is augmenting its live show with interactive visuals… Carr and the band work to create an Orwellian drama using today’s culture of 24-hour news channels, YouTube awareness, camera phones and prime-time reality shows.” October 8, 2008: The Signal (Ewing, NJ) Aloud vocal on social, political issues Live Review “Aloud creates music for a reason, intending to end poverty and encourage people to stand up for political change. They are not pushovers, asserting, “No is not an option, not where we come from.” June 1, 2008: The Noise Aloud: Fan The Fury Album review “The band’s supporters generally focus on Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain’s vocals, but it’s their shimmering guitar work that gives their voices a platform from which to explode.” May 29, 2008: Revolt Media Aloud: Fan The Fury Album review “Aloud brings a strong formula of smart, powerful indie-rock that ranges from slow ballad ‘Hard Up In The 2000s’ all the way to the pulsing garage-rock tune ‘When The Ants Attack The Queen.’” May 28 , 2008: Claremont Eagle Times/Algorhythms Aloud – You’ll Either Love It Or Hate It Album review “The second album from Boston quartet Aloud [is] packed with twentysomething rage, but it also brims with flourishes and crescendos…There’s not much middle ground, and that’s a good thing.” April 29, 2008: Adam Salsman – Dancing in the Moonlight Aloud: Fan The Fury Album review “[Aloud's] got a solid sound, amazing skill, and enough staying power to keep us enthralled for years to come.” March 21, 2008: Ryan’s Smashing Life Aloud – Fan The Fury Album review “The joy of rock, the celebration of noise and explosion of spirit and wrap it up into a 2008 package.” March 12, 2008: The Boston Phoenix MP3 of the Week: Aloud Song review “…The hooks are bigger, the lyrics smarter, and the arrangements tighter.” October 17, 2007: Lime Wire CMJ: Band – Aloud Live Review “Last night, I had my first CMJ miracle…” July 2007: Performer Magazine Aloud Featured Interview “Exuding a light-hearted demeanor, it’s clear the four members of Aloud don’t take themselves too seriously, even in light of their successful 2006 full-length album debut, Leave Your Light On…” April 2007: INsite Magazine Living Life Aloud Featured Interview “The strength of Aloud’s album is that hard-rocking sounds don’t take away from quality songwriting…” February 21, 2007: Claremont Eagle Times/Algorhythms Live Review “Aloud combined the Pretenders’ sass with U2’s sonic fury…” |
