Van Alden is the deep, pop-noir music project of Los Angeles-based artist and clothing designer, Paul Abrahamian. His self-titled debut. Van Alden is a strong showing of a fully-modern singer-songwriter, bent on expressing life’s more intense and complicated emotions from  loss, memory, to freedom despite pain. The dark, moody, and  synth-heavy sounds make the record feel like a lonely 3AM smoke on a rooftop in L.A.