G, Alex: God Save The Animals (Vinyl LP) Yo La Tengo Now is full of darkness

Now is full of darkness and sadness and loss for so many

often hilarious observations with devastating self-assessment over a beguiling collection of songs that reveals her as an ambitious songwriter with an ear for clever turns of phrase and an eye for story-song details that are literate without being pretentious

Sigur Ros conjured magic with drones

Prog jazz metal psych rock opera all spinning in a mayhem of discordant madness

G, Alex: God Save The Animals (Vinyl LP) Yo La Tengo Now is full of darknessGod figures in the ninth album from Philadelphia, PA based Alex Giannascoli's LPs title, its first song, and multiple of its thirteen tracks thereafter, not as a concrete religious entity but as a sign for a generalized sense of faith (in something, anything) that fortifies Giannascoli, or the characters he voices, amid the songs often fraught situations. Beyond the ambient inspiration of pop, Giannascoli has been drawn in recent years to artists who