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Oct 7, 2015Alex G has always found power in the broken and uncertain. He’s just gotten a lot braver about spinning that chaos into beauty.
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Oct 12, 2015Beach Music will almost certainly push Alex G into the wider consciousness, and rightly so.
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Oct 9, 2015This record was defined by never being in the same place at once--each song was recorded in a different location--but there’s a glue holding everything together.
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Oct 9, 2015Alex G’s first major wax-plated step outside the bedroom is predictably secure. But it’s also exploratory of his changing landscape, one that’s situated like unauthorized speech-class notecards, articulating each situation and character but still allowing for cracks and incongruity.
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Oct 8, 2015Familiar, yet impossibly charming.
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Oct 8, 2015Despite its experimental elements and trippy sensibility, Beach Music is relentlessly intimate, moving, and hard to shake--a notable trait for a young if experienced recording artist.
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Oct 6, 2015Whether it haunts you, puts you in a dreamlike state, or simply makes you hum along, Beach Music is an album which should be listened to without hesitation.
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Oct 19, 2015Beach Music, which is a deceivingly simple title for an album of such depth, is the best collection yet from a young musician who has clearly honed on something truly worth noting.
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Oct 7, 2015Beach Music feels like the work of an artist a few steps ahead of his audience, jumping to answer their expectations of a DIY darling taking on the trappings of a label.
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Oct 8, 2015Complicated arrangements and gorgeous melodies reveal themselves to you as rewards for your patience. Over time, even the alien voices begin to sound natural, even inviting.
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Oct 14, 2015Beach Music is one of the most indulgent records you’re likely to hear all year, but since it indulges only the Philadelphian’s love for well-crafted pop songs and quirky indie, it’s nothing but an endearing delight.
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Oct 7, 2015Alex G’s narrators have often been traumatized, druggie, lovesick or inscrutable, and moving up the indie-rock circuit hasn’t made his new songs any more outgoing. Just the opposite: They are more cryptic and withdrawn.
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Oct 7, 2015By the time you've gotten used to Beach Music's relaxed melancholy, it's become a much-needed refuge.
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Oct 7, 2015Money, manipulation and vaguely unhappy mediums haunt the album's lyrics, though indistinct phrasing and a blearily subdued vocal mix make these themes feel like peripheral, subconscious murmurings.
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MojoOct 6, 2015Beach Music is stylistically disjointed. [Nov 2015, p.94]
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UncutOct 6, 2015There's nothing not to like, but at 13 tracks in just 37 minutes, it's all rather slight. [Nov 2015, p.76]
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Q MagazineOct 6, 2015It's a glum, muted collection of songs, but Giannascoli knows how to party like it's 1994: alone in the kitchen, feeling miserable. [Nov 2015, p.110]
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Oct 12, 2015Unfortunately, there is no great reveal here, in which a burgeoning talent steps up a gear.