Alex Izenberg releases new album 'Alex Izenberg & The Exiles'
Alex Izenberg
Releases new album Alex Izenberg & The Exiles today
Read his New York Times Profile
Watch the new video for “Pareidolia”
Alex Izenberg releases his new album Alex Izenberg & The Exiles today via Weird World / Domino. On Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. The melodies of his sweeping, psychedelic opuses are romantic and warm, and the arrangements are invitingly expansive, making expert use of a new ensemble formed around the strongest songs of his career. Fitting for a record that collects Izenberg’s widest array of collaborators, he expanded his process further by enlisting veteran producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Built to Spill) to mix the album. “He draws from an act that Ek knows well, Fleet Foxes, channeling the group’s sweeping grandeur and retrofitting it to his 1970s-indebted palette,” says Pitchfork. “Across the 11 songs, you’ll also detect notes of King Crimson, the Beatles, and David Bowie.”
Stream Alex Izenberg & The Exiles here.
Izenberg was profiled in the New York Times this week, marking his first time sitting for an interview. “Izenberg has... never sounded more himself than on ‘Exiles’,” says the Times, “funny and ruminative, delivering surrealist images and solitary visions in a tone so relaxed he seems to be rising from a perpetual nap. Horns and harmonies frame nearly every song in a neon glow, while pedal steel evokes existential bittersweetness.”
Read Alex Izenberg’s New York Times profile here.
To celebrate the album’s release today, Izenberg also shares a new video for “Pareidolia,” shot by his longtime close collaborators Giraffe Studios at the Santa Fe Dam in California’s San Gabriel Valley.
Watch the video for “Pareidolia” here.
Izenberg will play three live dates in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles this summer – all dates are below and tickets are available here.
Upcoming Alex Izenberg Dates:
July 31 – Golden Bull, Oakland, CA
August 1 - The Battery, San Francisco, CA
August 15 – Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
WATCH: “Drinking the Dusk Away”
Alex Izenberg & The Exiles is available to order now on Domino Mart on standard vinyl, CD, and digitally: Dom Mart|Digital.
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