Casual Abductions by Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon

Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon is weird hip hop for weird people.

We’ve been internet friends since 2019 (with Bryson in Portland and Alex & Bryan in Los Angeles), but when the pandemic hit, we immediately bonded over a desire to make a new kind of hip hop detached from the mainstream. We recorded remotely in the late spring of 2020. It was a really prolific period for us, often recording 2-3 songs a day with beats crafted from THC-infused live jams and cerebral raps guided by psilocybin microtrips & ultimately inspired by our efforts to make sense of the world changing around us.

Casual Abductions is the result of the support we got from POW Recordings, from the incredible artists featured throughout the record, and we’re grateful for their help building this project from the ground up. Special shout out to cover artist Deliria Vision for bringing this world to life!"

Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon (U.A.P.) is here to help you transcend your atomized reality. A sleek expression of benevolent escapism, U.A.P is a virtual collaboration born during quarantine between the extraterrestrial wordsmith, Bryson the Alien, and the genre-smashing, gravity-inverting, indie psych duo, Pioneer 11