Aitis Band

AITIS BAND are excited to announce their new album, AITIS BAND - IV, out October 10 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. The band’s fourth full-length was produced by former bandmate Nate Kinsella, who also mixed AITIS BAND III as well as Joan of Arc’s 1984 and Tim Melina Theo Bobby.

The trio has shared the album’s lead single “Screenplay,” alongside a stunning music video directed by acclaimed horror filmmaker Jennifer Reeder.
 
“Horror movie idea: Bored college kids become convinced that modern society should bring back ritual killings—for its own good. They talk a fellow student into being their first victim… and all hell breaks loose.”

“Screenplay” draws on the occult and horror traditions of Alastair Crowley and Dario Argento, exploring the artist’s struggle to be worthy. Reeder responds with a short film where a wannabe actor finds herself in a blood-drenched scene straight out of De Palma’s Carrie.”

Alongside the album, AITIS BAND are announcing East Coast tour dates, including shows with Ted Leo and Black Moth Super Rainbow. Full dates are listed below.

Formed by former Joan of Arc members Bobby Burg (Love of Everything) and Melina Ausikaitis, and joined by visual artist/musician Ray Borchers, AITIS BAND have carved out a singular space since their formation in 2019. They mix the theatrical with the absurd, fusing haunted house atmospherics with deadpan humor. Their lyric-driven songs literally report what “she said” — and how terrifying it was.

Their music channels club culture, teen melodrama, and tragic figures both real and imagined, veering from tender ballads to noisy anthems. They dwell in a liminal space between too much art school and just enough ’80s night. Ausikaitis’ vocals sink into a funereal bath that Burg and Borchers slowly bring to a boil.

The band has toured extensively across the U.S., performing with the likes of Dry Cleaning, Circuit des Yeux, Black Dice, Parquet Courts, Jesus Lizard, No Age, Robert A.A. Lowe, Ryley Walker, Dustin Wong, Air Waves, Man on Man, and on a Midwest tour with American Football.

AITIS BAND’s setup is as unconventional as their sound: dueling Roland EG101 drum machines/keyboards and a MicroKorg. Ray controls three keyboards at once using weights for drones, while playing additional notes by hand and foot. Melina sings and plays a stringless guitar rigged with a contact mic and EarthQuaker Devices pedals. Bobby plays bass.