A solo project of Aaron Bruno, AWOLNATION began as a creative outlet for the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Bruno, who had been a member of Home Town Hero and Under the Influence of Giants, needed a break from the collaborative process and hoped to find a place for some of his songs that didn't fit with his other bands. Bruno built a kind of creative free-for-all for himself, mixing genres in a style reminiscent of Beck, and blending live instrumentation, electronic elements, and slick production into an electro pop hybrid drawing from the whole of pop music. In 2011, A...