Giannascoli began writing these songs in the fall of 2017, having just finished a tour for House of Sugar’s acclaimed predecessor, Rocket, and moved into a new apartment in Philadelphia. On House of Sugar, his third full-length for Domino and ninth overall, Alex inhabits a diverse range of musical and emotional points-of-view (often simultaneously), in turn illuminating the tension that hides in the shadow of desire. It’s in this space that Giannascoli-the 26-year-old artist better known as (Sandy) Alex G-lingers throughout the album’s thirteen songs: between backwards and forwards, past and future, one voice and another. In the repetition, emphasis shifts from “someday” to “not today" and back, leaving the listener in a space of uncertainty. “Someday I’m gonna walk away from you,” he sings “not today.” These are the song’s only words, repeated again and again for more than four minutes. The distended, pitched-up wail that introduces the track gives way to cascading layers of his more familiar intonations. There’s hardly a second when Alex Giannascoli’s voice can’t be heard in “Walk Away,” the opener of his latest album, House of Sugar.
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