| Alex G / Dsu |
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| Album: | Dsu | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Alex G | Added: | Sep 2016 | |
| Label: | Orchid Tapes | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-09-25 | Pull Date: | 2016-11-27 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 27 | Nov 13 | Nov 6 | Oct 30 | Oct 23 | Oct 16 | Oct 9 | Oct 2 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 10, 2021: | regular school (rebroadcast from Dec 3, 2018) Hollow | 4. | Dec 03, 2018: | regular school Hollow | |
| 2. | Aug 30, 2021: | regular school (rebroadcast from Dec 3, 2018) Hollow | 5. | Oct 08, 2018: | regular school After Ur Gone | |
| 3. | Apr 24, 2019: | nearby galaxies After Ur Gone | 6. | Feb 15, 2018: | veggie tales Boy |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Aporia Reviewed 2016-09-22 | ||
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Reissue of Alex G aka Spicy Boy’s first album on Orchid Tapes. DSU is short for Dream State University. This is “lo-fi indie” with strong influences from Pavement, Elliott Smith, and Youth Lagoon. There’s wobbly acoustic and electric guitars, feedback, keys, subtle percussion, and mumbled vox with a comforting sense of emo. Wonderfully unpretentious. Every song finds a way to sneak into your head without warning. FCC: 10 1. (2:21) ** After Ur Gone—Ringing, loud guitars, sweet mumbling double-tracked vox 2. (3:46) ** Serpent is Lord—Guitar noodling then layers of guitars and some feedback, Built to Spill 3. (1:40) Harvey—Rousing ode to friendship 4. (1:52) Rejoyce—Pitched-up drowned-out vox, guitars, minimal oddball weird in last minute 5. (2:44) **** Black Hair—Feedback to start, acoustic guitars and keys, feedback weaves through occasionally again... I love this endlessly 6. (1:26) ** Skipper—Lush strumming, floaty vox 7. (1:47) Axesteel—Loud, angsty, screamy sounds, listless sad vox, very lo-fi 8. (2:43) ** Sorry—Acoustic guitars, synths, regret, more prominent vox. Super similar to Beach Music, his most recent album 9. (3:32) ** Promise—Woah! Big change here. Bluesy guitar noodling, stomps, airy keys, awesome groove 10. (2:51) Icehead—FCC. Weird pitch-shifted vox, guitars, hollow beat, so incredibly emo 11. (4:04) Hollow—Starts out kind of folky then builds in those nice enveloping Elliott Smith flairs, intense feedback eventually builds 12. (0:42) Tripper—Messing around on piano 13. (3:11) *** Boy—Piano and acoustic guitars, intense. “I am not the boy you knew.” 14. (1:40) Soak (Bonus Track)—Lo-fi acoustic guitar and vox, simple 15. (3:30) Waiting for You (Bonus Track)—All instrumental piano and sax, mournful | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | After Ur Gone | 8. | Sorry | |||
| 2. | Serpent Is Lord | 9. | Promise | |||
| 3. | Harvey | 10. | Icehead | |||
| 4. | Rejoyce | 11. | Hollow | |||
| 5. | Black Hair | 12. | Tripper | |||
| 6. | Skipper | 13. | Boy | |||
| 7. | Axesteel | 14. | Soak (Bonus Track) | |||
| 15. | Waiting For You (Bonus Track) | |||||