Listening to Alien Boy is like experiencing high-stakes romance on a molecular level. Every wispy, nasal romantic plea and rumble of succulent anglophile jangle courses through your veins like you’re 17 again and drowning in your first bout of lovesickness.

Alien Boy release new album You Wanna Fade? Credit: Photo by Frank Martinez. Sonia Weber tries to find the right words, coincidentally speaking for the masses on Alien Boy’s third album, You Wanna Fade? “I told you the other day / I don’t want things ...