Alex G.

Most people in culture, music, and especially guitar band music, lose themselves in the middle of life and either turn to drugs, alcohol, family, lovers, gambling, or become depressed, and while that may be what rock is all about, it's certainly true that rock isn't for that. (SANDY) ALEX G's 2019 album is amazing, and while it's not like, say, SYD BARRET or ELLIOT SMITH, it's music that's completely different from his predecessors and that we've never heard before, and it's also pop, and what makes it a masterpiece is that it seems to hate adults. It's not just a folk guitar, but the blatant reverse rotation and kitschy arrangements are dazzling, and it has incredible ideas and incredible talent. It doesn't rely on either of them, an...