Alex G - Dsu [LP With Bonus 7-Inch] 2xLP
- After Ur Gone
- Serpent Is Lord
- Harvey
- Rejoyce
- Black Hair
- Skipper
- Axesteel
- Sorry
- Promise
- Icehead
- Hollow
- Tripper
- Boy
- Soaker
- Waiting for You
- Format
- 2LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Catalog No.
- LUCKY71LPXX
- Discs
- 2
- Tracks
- 15
DSU is the incredible breakthrough fifth album from Alex G. The first of Alex's records to be released internationally, in November 2014, DSU presented a crossover moment for the prodigious Philadelphian songwriter, then still 21 years of age and a student at Temple University. Entirely self-recorded at home, almost exclusively solo, and, until then, all self-released and available only via Bandcamp, Alex had already built a fervent online cult fan-base before his fifth album landed to a wider audience, coupled with his first shows in the UK and Europe that winter. Subsequent releases, including the first professionally mastered versions of earlier albums Trick and Rules in 2015, and his three follow up albums with Domino, have cemented him as one the best songwriters around. His fan-base, including the likes of Frank Ocean, continues to swell as more and more listeners discover his prolific back catalogue, with DSU a firm favourite and those same fans voraciously sing back every lyric at his worship-like live shows.
- After Ur Gone
- Serpent Is Lord
- Harvey
- Rejoyce
- Black Hair
- Skipper
- Axesteel
- Sorry
- Promise
- Icehead
- Hollow
- Tripper
- Boy
- Soaker
- Waiting for You
- Format
- CD
- Tracks
- 15
Years after it's initial release on boutique Brooklyn label Orchid Tapes, Alex G's fourth LP DSU has been reissued on Run For Cover Records. Considered by many to be the record that shone a spotlight onto the longtime lo-fi Bandcamp-favorite, DSU is an indie rock record empowered & enlightened by Alex Giannascoli's bedroom-pop sensibilities. An acronym for ""Dream State University,"" DSU's thirteen songs consistently reinvent indie-pop in a way that truly makes the album dream-like, not only because of the serene calmness of tracks like ""Skipper"" & ""Boy,"" but also in the hauntingly jarring mid-album number ""Axesteel"" & the kinetic swelling & pitch-shifting ""Icehead."" What DSU offers as a whole is a collection of songs that endlessly bend existing indie-rock tropes with Alex G's sincere strand of otherness, presenting an early but ambitious portrait of one of the next great songwriters of our time.