Alex g Sandy

we gotta fix this thread title

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.

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

this was a slow burn but is in contention for my aoty now

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

kicker
harvey
gnaw (he recorded this in high school for god's sake)
salt
hope
gretel
southern sky
bobby

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/IVRwpDa.png

New joint smokes

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

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.

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

Finally listened to this tonight. Better than I expected. Interesting interview a little bit ago in NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/arts/music/alex-g-god-save-the-animals.html

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

aint it easy

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?)

"Runner" sounds a lot like Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train"

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.

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!

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.

house of sugar is really good too it turns out, i've been missing out

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.

lyrics remind me of kurt cobain tbh

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

cool, thanks for the tip.

i think the most recent two are his best, his arrangements are getting more out-there in a good way