Philadelphia-based musician, singer-songwriter and producer Alex G first got here to acclaim in his teenagers releasing lo-fi tracks on Bandcamp. That is the 29-year-old’s ninth album, and it finds him extra bold, unusual and embedded in studio experimentation than earlier than, embracing collaboration together with his bandmates in addition to his companion, string participant and vocalist Molly Germer.
The instrumentation feels stirring, with crisp drums, rippling strings and buoyant keys sliding via vortices of distortion and scuzziness, or else nodding to the nation twang of a few of his earlier work, consistently flitting between melodic and dissonant. The vocals are largely light, often echoing in Auto-Tune, or coming through surreal, playful whispers (as on Blessing) or distant spoken phrase (Headroom Piano), all including to the vastness of textures on show.
As with all of Alex G’s music, God Save the Animalsmelds the autobiographical and fictional, with poetic refrains drifting out and in as he considers notions of religion and hope in all its types (“My trainer is a baby with an enormous smile/ no bitterness”). For probably the most half it’s a wealthy and deftly organized work, and although there’s a heat that may generally border on cloying, he cuts via with chaos and levity.
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