After we final heard from Alex G, the Philadelphia native was splitting his time between co-writing Halsey songs and composing eerie soundscapes for Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 leftfield horror movie, I Noticed The TV Glow. On “Afterlife,” the primary track from his upcoming tenth (!) album, and first for RCA, Headlights, he appears to take inspiration from Schoebrun’s paranoid and fantastical worldview as he sings about operating between “heaven and a TV display screen.” Over a twinkling mandolin, he sings a few “mild” that’s “large and brilliant,” an amorphous power that appears to each frighten and fascinate him—it’s arduous not to think about I Noticed The TV Glow and its protagonists, desperately eager for one other dimension by way of hours of late night time tv.
Alex G has constructed a discography on slanted rhythms that sound only a observe or two away from an uncanny childhood reminiscence, like listening to a music field in a dream. Right here, this takes the type of an organ-like synth that hums to life midway by way of the track like a wayward rendition of “Stroll of Life.” That chiming mandolin and wavering synth, mixed with Alex G’s pinched falsetto midway by way of, create a way of synthetic brightness, a flood mild shining down on one man’s quest for that means. However Alex G is wanting outward: He would relatively be “rolling within the tiger grass” or reminiscing about his horse than trying to find alerts by way of static.
