It’s an eerie, strange finality when someone you know, someone you’ve seen, isn’t there anymore. It could be death, it could be relocation of a friend, it could be newly divorced ex-spouses. It could be someone famous that we may not know personally but are familiar with.
The cliché is overwhelming true that “there are no words” for these circumstances. Accordingly, lo-fi Philadelphia indie rocker Alex G hits the nail on the head on his latest single, “After Ur Gone”, from his DSU album, finally seeing a UK release in November.
Alex breathes the simple, desperate question everyone has in this situation – what do we do, how do we tell others? You can barely hear him beneath his brassy strums and between his glaring, fuzzed interludes; it’s an echo of the meekness that one’s soul inherits in this experience, struggling, though sometimes not even trying, to break through the din.
In two and half minutes, it’s over and rarely does two and half minutes both justify its brevity and leave you wholly satisfied as it does here.
DSU is out on 10 November in all formats courtesy of Lucky Number and Alex G will perform his first show outside of the US at London’s Sebright Arms on 19 November. You can pre-order DSU (physical) and (digital) now.
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