we gotta fix this thread title
― alpine static, Friday, 13 September 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Hard to figure out what this dude wants to grow into, but I do think Bobby is one of the more beautiful songs I've ever listened to. I mostly get the sense that his peer group is overly supportive and he has nobody doing the gatekeeping: His forays into experimentalism or genre extension tend to be just really, really bad.
― 57mg/20floz, Saturday, 14 September 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
I mostly get the sense that his peer group is overly supportive
Yes god save us all from overly supportive peer groups
I get what you're saying tho, I myself think some of his best songs are born out of genre experiments though ("Salt") even if they don't all work all the time
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
this was a slow burn but is in contention for my aoty now
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
alex g is the best song writer of his generation, ilx is sleepin. Lot of duds throughout his discography but he when he hits the nail on the head, holy fuck. he's got so many tracks that are unfuckwithable. for starters
kickerharveygnaw (he recorded this in high school for god's sake)salthopegretelsouthern skybobby
if you aren't convinced that this guy is something special watch videos of him playing his songs solo acoustic. these are all-time songs, the kind of songs somebody can sing around a campfire and it still fuckin hits
― boobie, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
like this video of him in a high school stairwell singing a song that he never even released. he's the real deal, a genius of song writing. protect alex g at all costs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnW2x1VZdkY
― boobie, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IVRwpDa.pngNew joint smokes
― calstars, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
house of sugar has quietly become one of my fav albums of the past decade. haven't really dug into the rest of his discog yet
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 May 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
The new one is also, unsurprisingly, quite good."No Bitterness" is a favorite. Although the vocal processing/autotune is starting to feel like almost perfunctory, like he's afraid if he doesn't use it he'll become too normie or something.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Actually I take it back, the auto tune is often key, especially when he uses it in the higher registers and makes his voice sound like a robot flute
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Finally listened to this tonight. Better than I expected. Interesting interview a little bit ago in NY Times
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 September 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/arts/music/alex-g-god-save-the-animals.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 September 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
Still, for all his DIY bona fides, Alex’s influences often skew surprisingly mainstream. At the park, Alex said the production on “Blessing” was inspired by a song he became obsessed with while working on “God Save the Animals,” which he’d listen to endlessly on loop. I leaned in, expecting him to name-drop some obscure, crate-dug rarity.
“It was this song ‘Like a Stone’ by Audioslave,” Alex said. “It came on the radio one night and I was like, ‘What the …? This is the best thing I’ve ever heard!’”
“Blessing” is an outlier sonically, though not thematically, on the new album
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 September 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
aint it easy
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
so i've never really vibed with alex g before, but i'm loving the shit out of this new one. trying to figure out why, but i think it probably is related to his love of that audioslave song. a lot of these sound like that era of vh1-ready rock filtered through a funhouse mirror (or maybe a depressionhouse mirror?)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 October 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
"Runner" sounds a lot like Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train"
― Indexed, Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
This guy is mega talented. Always simple riffs and legitimate songs but with a creative/experimental edge that never sounds quite like anything I hear from anyone else.
― Indexed, Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
The first track on the new album actually made me say "motherfucker!" out loud because i couldn't believe how good it was. there's something about those autotuned pitch-shifted vocals that hits harder than if he used his own voice or that of a female vocalist
so far the rest of the album isn't reaching that high but maybe it'll grow on me!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 4 November 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
Just picked on this latest LP. Never even heard of the guy before. Listening to see if I'm interested in a local festival he's at. This is good. As well as Big Star and Frank Black, I can hear a lot of Mogwai.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
house of sugar is really good too it turns out, i've been missing out
― ufo, Saturday, 4 February 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
a friend is into rocket so i'm checking it out. this guy is onto something. the songwriting is good. i can hear us maple or thinking fellers or something but packaged into earworms. the lyrics are where it's at for me though. he has seen some things and is good at putting that across. also maybe he reminds me of beck but replace "i'm cool" with "i'm traumatized and earnest". also stuff about manhood for the youngsters, working thru dad issues kind of. straight i guess but this is very queer-whistling. i hope he creates something really transcendent at some point. whatever that means. i'll have to listen to the new one.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 16:14 (six months ago) link
lyrics remind me of kurt cobain tbh
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 16:28 (six months ago) link
if he ever tours in your area you should see him live -- i run hot and cold on his recordings but the live show is really fantastic, esp hearing the way he plays the earlier lo-fi songs w/ the fleshed out band, bending it towards the fuller sound of the recent projects. i like the last album a good deal, "mission" is amazing
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 October 2023 16:34 (six months ago) link
cool, thanks for the tip.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 16:38 (six months ago) link
i think the most recent two are his best, his arrangements are getting more out-there in a good way
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 06:17 (six months ago) link