Alex G / Dsu
Album: Dsu   Collection:General
Artist:Alex G   Added:Sep 2016
Label:Orchid Tapes  

A-File Activity
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
DJ Aporia
Reviewed 2016-09-22
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
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)