Alex G - God Save The Animals [Clear Vinyl] (New Vinyl LP)

“God” figures in the new album from Philadelphia, PA based Alex Giannascoli's LP’s title, its first song, and multiple of its thirteen tracks thereafter, 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.

Beyond the ambient inspiration of pop, Giannascoli has been drawn in recent years to artists who balance the public and hermetic, the oblique and the intimate, and who present faith more as a shared social language than religious doctrine.

As with his previous records, Giannascoli wrote and demoed these songs by himself, at home; but, for the sake of both new tones and “a routine that was outside of my apartment,” he asked some half-dozen engineers to help him produce the “best” recording quality, whatever that meant. The result is an album more dynamic than ever in its sonic palette.

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A1        After All
A2        Runner
A3        Mission
A4        S.D.O.S.
A5        No Bitterness
A6        Ain’t It Easy
A7        Cross The Sea
B1        Blessing
B2        Early Morning Waiting
B3        Immunity
B4        Headroom Piano
B5        Miracles
B6        Forgive