Releases new single “Cross The Sea” – watch the video here
Performs “Runner” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – watch here
UK tour confirmed for Spring 2023 including London’s RoundhouseNew album God Save the Animals out September 23rd
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“America’s greatest living songwriter” The Fader
“One of the most exciting and innovative songwriters working today.” GQ
“An indie rock prodigy” Rolling Stone
“One of the decade’s defining indie rock artists” Washington Post
“At times earnest and intimate, at others freaky and experimental; most often and most impressively, all of the above at once.” NPR
“Spectacular” Clash
Alex G shares his new single “Cross the Sea,” off his forthcoming ninth studio album God Save the Animals, due out September 23. “Cross the Sea” comes via a video by the artist Elliot Bech.
Watch the “Cross the Sea” video here.
Listen to “Cross the Sea” here.
God Save the Animals was co-produced and mixed by Jacob Portrait andfeatures the previously released tracks “Runner” – hailed as an “inarguably one of his best” by Pitchfork – and “Blessing,” which was praised by theNew York Timesas“eerie, hypnotic and, somehow, strangely moving.”
Alex G made his late night television debut last week, performing “Runner” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch the performance HERE.
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“People come and people go away / Yeah, but God with me he stayed,” sings Alex Giannascoli, the 29-year-old, Philadelphia-based musician best known as Alex G on his new album, God Save the Animals. “God” figures in the LP’s title and multiple of its thirteen tracks, not as a concrete religious entity but as a sign for a generalized sense of faith (in something, anything) that fortifies Giannascoli, or the characters he voices, amid the songs’ often fraught situations. Giannascoli has been drawn in recent years to musicians like Gillian Welch and writers like Joy Williams, artists who balance the public and hermetic and who present faith more as a shared social language than religious doctrine.
Filtering his experiences through fact and fiction, Giannascoli also opened up the songs through a more practical method: collaboration. God Save the Animals features several individual contributions from his bandmates (guitarist Samuel Acchione, drummer Tom Kelly, and bassist John Heywood) or frequent collaborator Molly Germer on strings and/or vocals. As with records since his adolescence, Giannascoli wrote and demoed the songs of God Save the Animals by himself, at home; but, for the sake of both new tones and “a routine that was outside of my apartment” during the pandemic, he began visiting multiple studios in greater Philadelphia. God Save the Animals consequently features the work of some half-dozen engineers who were asked to help produce the “best” recording quality, whatever that meant. The result is an album more dynamic than ever in its sonic palette and its thoroughgoing complexity.
God Save The Animals will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally on September 23, 2022. The exclusive Domino Mart sky blue vinyl is housed in a gatefold jacket with gold foil and available for pre-order:Domino Mart |Digital
Additionally, Alex G has confirmed a 13-date UK & European tour for Spring 2023 which includes a date at London’s Roundhouse on 23rd March.
Alex G upcoming live dates
2022
20th August – Crickhowell, UK – Green Man Festival
22nd August – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – The Cluny
23rd August – Edinburgh, SC – The Liquid Room
2023
18th March – Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz
20th March – Leeds, UK – University Stylus
21st March – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
22nd March – Bristol, UK – SWX Bristol
23rd March – London, UK – Roundhouse
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