Alex G - Rocket (Vinyl)

His eighth full-length overall, Rocket arrives after a period of increased exposure for bedroom recordist and longtime self-releaser Alex Giannascoli. Then going by Alex G, he made his label debut (DSU) in 2014, then signed with Domino Records, which released Beach Music, an album that landed on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and made some high-profile best-of-2015 lists. R&B superstar Frank Ocean then invited Giannascoli to play on his 2016 LPs Endless and Blond. After announcing a rebranding to (Sandy) Alex G a month before its release in May 2017, Rocket follows these career markers with a perhaps surprising return to the self-produced, home-recorded method that made his reputation. He has remarked, though, that the experience with Ocean made him more open to collaboration, and he's joined here by touring bandmembers, longtime guest vocalist Emily Yacina, singer/violinist Molly Germer, and more. What hasn't changed is Giannascoli's genre-sampling approach, distinctively loose and