Aa - ThumperBig A little a. Or, maybe 'ah'? I think the band prefers the former, but I think it'd be more fun (and confounding) to say to someone, "have you heard the new AAAH?". Aa are percussion-centric, with 3 or 4 drummers (I think) going at once; they make the kind of music that I imagined when I first heard the title of the Liars album, "Drum's Not Dead." More similar to Excepter though in execution, Aa gets their kicks not through flu-infected synths, but via heavy, unpredictable beats, and gravity-warped vocals.'Thumper' is a burner, a weird jar of noises put in a windowsill and let to steep in the sun. It's the kind of song that you would play if you were getting pumped up to go out and hunt megafauna.A Few Theories About the Band's Name, Taken from Old CommentsSpecies says: Here in Denmark, the A with a little circle above it (the symbol doesn't work on this blog) used to be spelled 'aa', or 'Aa' as in 'Arhus' (imagine the cap A with a little circle at the top!)/'Aarhus', where I live. It's pronounced a bit like 'oar', as in the things you row a boat with.Figment says: I don't think this is where the band took its name, but one of the two types of lava flows is aa. Pronounced "ah-ah." It's the very chunky kind. As opposed to pahoehoe, the flowy sort.[Buy mAate, which is a collection of everything Aa's done so far]