photo by Chris Maggio

It’s the final day of June and here Alex G steps into frame to send us all off into the rest of summer with a future-perfect wistfulness only he can predict. The second single from the Philly experimental guitar-pop star’s major label debut, Headlights, continues on course to what its predecessor “Afterlife” suggested in turning up the surface-level resolution of his six-string spindlework with his signature wonky sonic effects set within a gentler fabric. He sings of swinging, reeling, and faded feelings. “Love ain’t for the young, anyhow / Something that you learn from falling down.” In a season of the year where so many oft romanticize daydreams of everything being endless, Alex G reminds us that those, too, shall eventually pass just like the sun.

Directed by: Zev Magasis and MaKenna Greene

Alex G’s Headlights will be released July 18th on RCA Records.