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Having built up a cult following through Bandcamp with his lo-fi indie rock sound,
\nPhiladelphia musician (Sandy) Alex G was signed by Domino in 2015, though his performance at the Deaf Institute was still very much embedded in DIY principles.<\/p>\n
Alex and his band appeared a couple of minutes before their scheduled start time, tweaked
\ntheir instruments and, without warning, blistered through the first hour of the set, with
\nlittle\/no gaps between songs.<\/p>\n
The first hour mostly consisted of tracks from his 2016 album Rocket<\/em>, including the alt-country The gig was refreshingly un-showy, and focused on playing as many tracks as possible for the By Aidan Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having built up a cult following through Bandcamp with his lo-fi indie rock sound, Philadelphia musician (Sandy) Alex G was signed by Domino in 2015, though his performance at the Deaf Institute was still very much embedded in DIY principles. Alex and his band appeared a couple of minutes before their scheduled start time, tweaked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefm.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPavement-esque \u2018Proud\u2019 and the jazzy \u2018Guilty\u2019 as well as heavier distorted numbers
\nlike \u2018Brick\u2019. Alex either swaggered about the stage guitar in-hand, or was hunched over a
\nCasio keyboard with his voice varying from a soulful crooning to a gritted teeth snarl. With
\nonly four on stage, the band did an admirable job of performing the tracks on the album,
\nwhich contains the most complex and varied songwriting in Alex\u2019s back-catalogue.
\nAt the hour mark, Alex finally chatted to the crowd, and then took requests for the final
\nsection. At a more relaxed pace he played fan-favourites like \u2018Sarah\u2019, \u2018Mis\u2019 and \u2018Mary\u2019 from
\nhis early self-released albums, which drew big reactions from the crowd. He even slipped in
\na surprise cover of Blink 182\u2019s \u2018What\u2019s my age again\u2019.<\/p>\n
\neager crowd. We may have also witnessed a first: a genuine encore. At the end Alex went
\nstraight to the merch table, taking pictures and chatting with the fans he knows launched
\nhis career in the beginning.<\/p>\n