Alex G’s 'God Save the Animals' is a tour de force, wrestling with big ideas about life, religion, and art without ever making quite clear what he thinks about any of those subjects.
“There’s no ethos about it,” Giannascoli says. “I figure, ‘This is what got me here, doing it like this.’” He thinks about it some more, weighing his feelings about the success he’s won by being himself. “I don’t want to jinx it,” he adds finally.features four songs recorded with contributions from his friends Sam Acchione on lead guitar, John Heywood on bass, and Tom Kelly on drums, and a couple with strings played and arranged by Germer. The rest of the album, for the most part, is all Alex.
In fact, Alex G’s career exists at the level it does because his fans find his music deeply meaningful. At his shows, they grow hushed listening to early solo songs like 2012’s quietly devastating; when he switches up the mood with an unexpected screamo interlude, they love that, too. The fact that he has almost no social media presence or celebrity profile compared to many of his indie-rock peers seems to add to these fans’ devotion: He’s a mystery people can project onto.
Giannascoli says these motifs are not indicative of any major shift in his own thinking — “I don’t have a real coherent statement about any of it” — just a reflection of something he’s observed around him. “A couple people close to me became religious suddenly,” he says. “It’s a radical change, if you’re going to make that leap of faith.
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