Built Like Alaska is an indie rock band from Oakdale, California, USA. Forming shortly Jackson's return to Oakdale from Humboldt State University in 1996, the band began playing local dives, dumps and police bars as a three-piece outfit. Signing with Grandaddy's Sweat of the Alps label, they released their début full-length, Hopalong , in 2003. They attracted the attention of a larger indie label, Future Farmer , who released album number two, Autumnland , and re-released Hopalong , both in 2005. Also in 2005, the band provided the score for Scott Coffey's film Ellie Parker and spent a good deal of the summer touring the U.S. Built Like Alaska is currently playing shows around Modesto and the San Francisco area now and again, and writing songs for album number three, which will be recorded at their own Taint of the Earth studios in the former Oakdale countryside.

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Discography

Albums and EPs

• This Song Will Bury You (2000, self-released)
• Hopalong (2003, Sweat of the Alps; 2005, Future Farmer)
• Pamphlets and Films EP (2003, self-released)
• Autumnland (2005, Sweat of the Alps/Future Farmer)

Compilation appearances

• If You Rearrange the Letters It Spells Satan (1997)
• Sleeping Off Stolen Dreams (2001, Little Echoes) (song: "Ain't No Bridgegroom")

Reviews

• in PopMatters
• in Stylus Magazine

References