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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
While the sonic invention and off-kilter details remain, on his 10th album the cult musician eschews distortion for melancholic melodies and crooked love songs
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10.0
141880
10.0 |
DIY
The culmination of fifteen years of exploration, refined
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9.0
141839
9.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album doesn’t shy away from the glare, but rather steps into it
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8.5
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8.5 |
Pitchfork
Alex Giannascoli upgrades to hi-fi dad rock and sails home with a major label debut worthy of the all-time indie graduations
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8.4
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8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
His lyrics bring to life scenes that are specific, relatable, and very often painful
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
If this isn’t the sound of Alex G’s 10 albums and 15 years’ worth of hard work and impressive refinement coming to fruition, nothing is
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8.0
141936
8.0 |
Dork
Sweet but never saccharine, unusual but never jarring, it perfectly balances intrigue and comfort so that you can’t help but want to sit for a while in this world of Alex G’s creation
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
One of American indie’s most idiosyncratic singer-songwriters renders another surrealist, shadowy world on his major label debut
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8.0
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8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
Headlights is as much of an opus as it is, only because it is so clearly, honestly both of these things—because Alex G proves on a major label the seriousness with which he takes his career as a musician, all the while strumming along a love letter to the singular sound he’s so conscientously developed
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8.0
141837
8.0 |
The Skinny
On Headlights, his first album on a major label, Alex G drills deeper into a refinement of his sound
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Philly’s indie hero adds to his discography of unassumingly brilliant folk-rock on his major-label debut
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7.9
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7.9 |
Paste Magazine
From oddly affecting piano ballads to jangly rock anthems, the singer-songwriter is still following his intuition on his 10th album and major-label debut. The result is another surprising collection of tracks marked by delicate piano lines, textured soundscapes, and playful instrumentation
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7.0
141835
7.0 |
Exclaim
Alex G is one of the most distinctive characters working in indie rock today, and despite some of its shortcomings, the songs on Headlights still prove that
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Alex G writes beautiful compositions that incorporate moments of experimentation—a challenging yet effective combination that sets him apart from his contemporaries
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Represents a flirtation with commercialized approaches, with suburbanism, with, dare we say, the banal. Given Alex’s impressive record, it’s not a stretch to imagine that going forward, he’ll find a way to better reconcile the predictable and unexpected, the cliché and seminal, the well-worn and just-discovered
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