Sandy alex g rocket domino it was quietly exciting to discover the music of alex giannascoli now officially known as sandy alex g when his breakthrough album dsu was released in 2014. Rocket at times sounds punk rock, but its best moments for me are when it is mellow and there are banjos and the songs focus on storytelling. Sometime in college i realized that a lot of musicians would say things like i know what youre doing and i know you i do i do when they didnt have actual lyrics because they sounded introspective and rhymed. May 18, 2017 bobby is the first example, with frequent collaborator emily yacinas voice taking on a similarly vulnerable shake like alexs does a perfect matching. Rocket is the second of two instrumentals on sandy alex g s album rocket.
May 19, 2017 smith is an influence of alex g and it shows. Sandy alex g house of sugar the popularity of a truly great musician is in some ways just a matter of luck. The excellent lp encouraged new fans to dig into the young philadelphia bedroom artists bandcamp page, which was deep with humble home. An artist like alex g doesnt need whatever gram parsons was taking to understand america. Rocket is rife with earnest truths that do little to take themselves seriously, making it a quintessential staple of alex g and all of his efforts. In the arena of bedroom recording savants, few have stuck the leap into daylight as surefootedly as philadelphias sandy alex g iannascoli.
Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Rocket, a record that first feels oddly soldered together. Sandy alex g rocket 2017, red, 180g, vinyl discogs. Philadelphian 24yearold alex g, now with his sandy prefix, was a natural fit for the albums. Both alex g s falsetto and the cocktail jazz arrangement of county obscure how its title references a gnarly prison scene. Both halves of the album are strong, but wow, going from proud to county to bobby is an experience, may be my favorite 10 minutes of music of the year. Sandy alex g creates the most beautiful, jackson pollockesque portraits of the contemporary experience in a way thats disquieting, but also intimate and vulnerable. Comic books, graphic novels, and cartoon art 208 smith street, brooklyn, new york 11201, 171879748. Esd cybersecurity academy blog des stagiaires en mastere esd. It was called hello when i put it in my computer, this was a couple years ago and i asked him about it and he said it was all stuff he made when he was like 16.
Rocket is philadelphiabased artist alex g s eighth fulllength releasean assured statement that follows a slate of humble masterpieces, many of them selfrecorded and selfreleased, stretching from 2010s race to his 2015 domino debut, beach music. As a gushing torrent of recording technology has leveled what was once a niche playing field, no more do the manic ariel pink types need orally pop and tsk drum sounds into fourtracks, nor must they trail buzz bands. Sandy alex g rocket 2017 you think i dont but i always fucking do. Rocket is the seventh studio album by american musician alex g, released on may 19, 2017, through domino recording company. The first alex g song i ever heard was bobby, from his latest album rocket. The opening song to sandy alex g s follow up to beach music, poison root sets the tone for rocket, introducing a blend of folktinged altcountry.
May 17, 2017 sandy alex g rocket giannascoli opens up and finds a language that speaks for more than just himself. The lyrics are so endearing and downtoearth and very relatable at times, just as all of alex g s lyrics are. Music profile for sandy alex g, born 3 february 1993. Alexander giannascoli, better known by his stage name sandy alex g formerly alex g, is an american musician based in philadelphia. On march 2, 2017, giannascoli announced that his second album with domino, rocket, would be released on may 19, and shared the first two singles, bobby and witch. The same ambiguous energy that accented twin peaks reboot also was present in the new albums 14 tunes. The guardian writer harriet gibsone stated, it is at times unpleasant, but rocket has no ambitions to score a dinner party. Listen free to sandy alex g rocket poison root, proud and more. The naturalistic goat portrait adorned on the front of the album was painted by giannascolis own sister and rocket features collaborations from his own friends. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from alex g at the discogs marketplace.
May 17, 2017 the opening song to sandy alex gs follow up to beach music, poison root sets the tone for rocket, introducing a blend of folktinged altcountry. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described. Amid the rocket recording process, alex made headlines for catching the attention of frank ocean, who. Some musicians like say, david byrne, have little in the ways of traditional vocal ability but make up for their shortcomings through an innate knack for melody and instrumentation. Alexander giannascoli, better known by his stage name sandy alex g. May 19, 2017 rocket, a record that first feels oddly soldered together. Mar 02, 2017 alex g has announced a new album called rocket. May 18, 2017 15 videos play all alex g rocket full album desillusion. Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. Alex g s sound is quite hard to pinpoint, though the elliott smith comparisons are a good place to start. Join napster and access fulllength songs on your phone, computer or home audio device. But last year may have garnered the most attention for giannascoli when, seemingly out of nowhere, his named turned up in the credits for frank oceans new albums, endless and blonde.
With the help of an internet connection he is able to look far beyond his own room into the bedroom studios of the whole country. Beach music was great and im looking for some of his other albums and eps. The press cycle describes alex g s 2017 project thusly. Description provided by wikipedia under creative commons attribution ccbysa 4. The album was mixed by jacob portrait unknown mortal orchestra, bass drum of death. Rocket is a confounding, murky album for those reasons. Alex giannascoli also chooses to approach our shifting cultural paradigm with wistful puerility. The whisperthin vocals, offkilter chord voicings, intimate acoustic guitar, and sparse background instrumentation drums, bass, the occasional keyboard are the matthew, mark, luke and john of elliott smiths first few records.
Sammy maine of the quietus wrote, the raw and at times, ferocious navigation of the album soars in its earnest delivery and marks a careerdefining release for sandy alex g. Southern sky, near, hope, gretel, sportstar porches remix, top tracks. Alex g has been on my radar ever since his first project race came out. Alex g announces new album rocket, shares two new songs. He followed it in 2017 with rocket, which received further acclaim and recognition. Rocket is philadelphiabased artist alex gs eighth fulllength releasean assured statement that follows a slate of humble masterpieces, many of them. Then going by alex g, he made his label debut in 2014, then signed with domino records, which released beach music, an album that landed on billboards heatseekers chart and made some highprofile bestof2015 lists. Fiddle riffs are scraped from a dreamy acoustic progression like dirt from untrimmed fingernails. Listen free to sandy alex g rocket explicit poison root, proud explicit and more.
Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. While the first instrumentalhorsecarried a dark, almost menacing tone, rocket is a bright and. Almost all of the songs on here are told from a first person perspective, but the variety and arc of these stories all but eliminate the possibility that they could have been experienced by one 24 year old. Provided to youtube by domino poison root sandy alex g rocket. On friday morning, philidelphias alex g released rocket, his second majorlabel release following a slew of bandcampexclusive records. Proud lyrics verse 1 im so proud of you and everything that you do doesnt matter what they say they aint worth a. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Edit i just found out that trick and rules were actually old albums that he put out on the internetonly in 2012 but then rereleased once dsu was popular. Sandy alex g biography, albums, streaming links allmusic.
Alex g short for alexander giannascoli is an indielofi. Howard found a storage box of rockets from when he was a kid, twenty years before. He started his career with diy selfreleases on bandcamp, and began building up an audience with his label debut, dsu 2014, released on orchid tapes to critical acclaim from various publications. The protagonists are often initially sympathetic but their methods and their.
May 18, 2017 alex giannascoli is an artist who hasat least outwardlyseemed to work best in isolation. Both alex gs falsetto and the cocktail jazz arrangement of county obscure how its title references a gnarly prison scene. Sandy alex g rocket sandy alex g, fka alex g, aka alex giannascoli has been making sweetly tinged lowfi indie rock for a few years now. His eighth fulllength overall, rocket arrives after a period of increased exposure for bedroom recordist and longtime selfreleaser alex giannascoli. Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday alina, alina, alina wiping her lips in the mirror at lunch. Guilty rocket is philadelphiabased artist alex g s eighth fulllength releasean assured statement that follows a slate of humble masterpieces, many of them selfrecorded and selfreleased. September 9, 2019 sandy alex g house of sugar 2019. Rocket, by sandy alex g, domino records, violin tracks 1, 4, 5, 10, vocals tracks 2, 8 house of sugar, by sandy alex g, domino records, violin. Now i know everthing zingen en doorgaan, moet alex g gedacht hebben, zijn schouders erbij ophalend. We get to do this because in the past halfdecade, hes issued a hefty catalog of essential music that feels like being in on a secret. Amid the rocket recording process, alex made headlines for catching the attention of frank ocean, who asked him to play guitar on his two. Looking for an unreleased cd alex gave to me at a show a long time ago and ive lost since.
Gretel, hope, babylon, sarah bonus track, southern sky, biography. Bobby, released this morning in anticipation of the pennsylvanian singersongwriters eighth album, rocket, recalls the pastoral twang of uncle tupelo. G flirts with the altcountry haze that soaked the suspended chords of uncle tupelos 1990 debut, no depression, while holding firm to the comfyyet. House of sugar, rocket, beach music, trick, rules, singles.
House of sugar sandy alex gs ninth overall album and his third for domino is a highly meticulous, cohesive album. House of sugar by sandy alex g, released september 2019 1. Alex giannascoli, who functions under the name alex g, has built a sizable catalogand a sizable followingon the back of his unending stream of music. The lyrics are actually a little grating now but this is the best song so far. He later signed with lucky number, who reissued his earlier. On rocket, alex g proves that he is a very talented artist whose strength lies in his understanding of character. Working under the name alex gbefore recently updating it to sandy alex ggiannascolis music was created, almost always, on his lonesome. He dashed out records on bandcamp with no audience in mind, and no guarantee that one would ever come. Sandy alex g is the stage alias of alex giannascoli, a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who built his reputation with intimate lofi pop that. The followup to 2015s beach music is out may 19 via domino. Rocket is such a complete world, its this wild tour through all of these different styles but theyre all tuned to alex s frequency and so they all feel so ineffably, inexplicably his.