Alex G - Headlights (July 18, 2025) • Page 9

I cannot believe you wouldn't respect our Very Serious and Thoroughly Vetted position of Chorus.fm Moderators.

at least in the AbsolutePunk days, if posters had anything, it was respect. smdh

 

I think "Real Thing" is pretty easily my least favorite thing here. Don't really love the dissonant talk-y parts of the verses.

From "Beam Me Up" on, the album is...pretty much perfect lol. I also feel like this and Rarely Do I Dream by Youth Lagoon fit together very closely, but it may also have something to do with me being a new dad.

 

Far and Wide is great

 

listening to F&W a couple more times I'm pretty sure he is doing an impression of a guy whose name will not come to me

 

I think he sounds kinda like John K. Samson from The Weakerthans which is maybe why I like it so much

 

His name is Ben Barnett from Kind of Like Spitting.

 

This is the guy that comes to mind when I hear his singing on far and wide

 

awesome performance of the best song of the decade so far (there, I finally said it)

 

I like when he does the MJ “hee-hee.”

 

Maybe my favorite album this year, gonna be top 5 at least though

 

Yeah, top three for me (as expected)

 

I actually was gonna say the same thing on Sunday. I threw this on again while taking a nap and it just was such a vibe. Just laid there and felt like it was his best work. It’s so varied and while doesn’t have as much as the Alex G weirdness that most his LP’s share, it’s still experimental enough to push it over the edge.

 

Louisiana, Oranges, and Is It Still You In There? Are now among my favs from him. Then Logan Hotel just ends the album in such a cathartic tone and it’s probably my favorite of his last three live closers.

 

im glad others are loving it as much as me! for whatever reason it doesn't feel like the buzz around this one is as big as I would have expected

 

I can’t stop listening to this album. I put on rocket and house of sugar and beach music and God save the animals and it feels in the moment like those albums have higher highs but when I return to headlights this album just feels like a cohesive perfect listen. I can’t really rank them to be honest.

I am curious how the major label of it all is going though. Are new people being exposed to Alex G? Is this selling well? Is his music in commercials I haven’t seen?

 

I just noticed he’s the face of indie on Apple Music