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Alex G

DSU

Alex Giannascoli's first label-released album of bedroom guitar pop comes to the UK

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7.7

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10/11/2014
US Release date
17/06/2014
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  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A fully-formed debut that demonstrates Giannascoli's talent for a variety of genres, pop bedrock and his own idiosyncratic experiments
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  2. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    A genuine talent finally giving his music the attention it deserves
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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Careful yet effortless, passionate yet distant but above-all, wholly unique
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  4. 8.0 |   NME

    Skillfully combines Neil Young’s dusty American songcraft with scratchy lo-fi and wandering
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  5. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    A raw and refreshing talent
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  6. 8.0 |   Crack

    A record that’s so full of pure, raw greatness that it’s hard to pin down the exact element that makes it so great
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  7. 8.0 |   Time Out

    An instant classic, the kind of window into a fascinating mind that you wish every solo album could be
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  8. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    What's impressive is the array of potent songs Alex G wrings from those basics, his self-recorded stone soup
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  9. 7.5 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Filled with brilliant songs
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  10. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    A bright new talent
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  11. 7.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Both meek and powerful at the same time, ‘DSU’ is ultimately an otherworldly spin on the coming-of-age soundtrack
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  12. 7.0 |   Clash

    Enduring evidence that the purest, most interesting music inevitably comes without hefty production or marketing budgets
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