{"id":71607,"date":"2019-10-25T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=71607"},"modified":"2019-10-23T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:12:22","slug":"sandy-alex-g-house-of-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2019\/10\/25\/sandy-alex-g-house-of-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"(Sandy) Alex G: House of Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-71608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/house-of-sugar.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/house-of-sugar.jpg?w=745&amp;ssl=1 745w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/house-of-sugar.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/house-of-sugar.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/house-of-sugar.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>(Sandy) Alex G is somewhat of a household name around KJHK, so when it was announced that he would be releasing his third record under Domino, <em>House of Sugar<\/em>, the announcement was met with plenty of excitement. Coming off his last record, <em>Rocket<\/em> \u2014 which was full of folk and Americana cuts, as well as that unmistakable Alex G sound \u2014 it felt like he could go absolutely anywhere with his next project, and rightly so. <em>House of Sugar<\/em>, although one track and about 4 minutes shorter than <em>Rocket<\/em>, feels like a very refined conglomeration of everything Alex G has released to this point.<\/p>\n<p>With the 4 singles released prior to the album (\u201cSouthern Sky,\u201d \u201cHope,\u201d \u201cGretel,\u201d and \u201cNear\u201d) it was clear that Alex G had not so much given up on the Americana\/folk style that he had crafted but had improved upon it to create an album that is hard to place under a single genre. \u201cSouthern Sky,\u201d \u201cCow,\u201d and \u201cCrime\u201d have the warm comfort of an alt-country cowboy while the artist also plays what feels like a more electronic parody of that on \u201cBad Man.\u201d Tracks such as \u201cWalk Away\u201d and \u201cNear\u201d are almost hypnotizing, while the two instrumental tracks feel completely opposite of each other (yet are still just as engaging). It\u2019s rare that a record\u2019s best tracks aren\u2019t its singles, but it seems that Alex G knew exactly what he was doing.<\/p>\n<p>The only <em>gripe<\/em> I have about the entire album is that I wish there was a studio version of \u201cSugarHouse,\u201d which he said on social media was never officially recorded. Either way, it\u2019s still a great ender, and I can\u2019t wait to hear it live in-person<\/p>\n<p>Almost 10 years in, Alex G continues to impress and exceed all expectations with <em>House of Sugar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What will Alex G do next? Only time will tell.<br \/><b><br \/>Recommended If You Like: Elliot Smith, Spencer Radcliffe, Big Thief<br \/>Recommended Tracks: 1 (Walk Away), 4 (Gretel), 5 (Taking), 6 (Near), 11 (Cow), 12 (Crime)<br \/>Do Not Play: None<br \/>Written by Cole Billings on 10\/23\/2019 <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 10 years in, Alex G continues to impress and exceed all expectations with House of Sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21280,"featured_media":71608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[8402,8192,8403],"class_list":["post-71607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-sandy-alex-g","tag-cole-billings","tag-house-of-sugar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/house-of-sugar.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}