ALEX G – God Save The Animals – LP – Gatefold Clear Vinyl

LP -Limited Edition Clear Vinyl. Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve withgold foil.

Alex G– the Philadelphia singer, songwriter, and producerAlex Giannascoli– announces his highly anticipated ninth studio albumGod Save the Animals, due out September 23 onDomino.

The announcement coincides with new single Runner and its accompanying video. The video was shot byAldo Fiskand features an affectionate performance by Giannascoli and his bandmatesSam Acchione,Molly Germer,John Heywood, andTom Kelly.

God Save the Animalsalso includes the previously released track Blessing, which received praise fromNPR(delightfully weird, minimalist and dark, it doles out many curiosities over its three short minutes) and theNew York Times(His predictable unpredictability strikes again the whole thing is eerie, hypnotic and, somehow, strangely moving.)

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 LPs 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 likeGillian Welchand writers likeJoy 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 Animalsfeatures 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 ofGod Save the Animalsby 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 Animalsconsequently features the work of some half-dozen engineers whom Giannascoli asked to help him 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.

“Americas 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 decades 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

Tracklist:

1. After All
2. Runner
3. Mission
4. S.D.O.S.
5. No Bitterness
6. Aint It Easy
7. Cross the Sea
8. Blessing
9. Early Morning Waiting
10. Immunity
11. Headroom Piano
12. Miracles
13. Forgive