Alex Izenberg Releases New Album
26th July 2024
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.”
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 the 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.
Upcoming Alex Izenberg Dates:
July 31 – Golden Bull, Oakland, CA
August 1 - The Battery, San Francisco, CA
August 15 – Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
Alex Izenberg Alex Izenberg & The Exiles
Album | 26th July 2024
As Alex Izenberg was piecing together the sweeping, psychedelic opuses on his full-band debut Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. At the heart of his songs are bold ideas that take inspiration from the heady musings of philosopher Alan Watts, the multi-layered storytelling of King Crimson, and the imagistic vistas of Fleet Foxes. While the subject matter may feel esoteric—“My unconscious named the tongue/Of the lights of closed eyes” goes a characteristic lyric—Izenberg and his band let the music drift pleasantly to earth. The melodies 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.
Alex Izenberg Alex Izenberg & The Exiles
Album | 26th July 2024
As Alex Izenberg was piecing together the sweeping, psychedelic opuses on his full-band debut Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. At the heart of his songs are bold ideas that take inspiration from the heady musings of philosopher Alan Watts, the multi-layered storytelling of King Crimson, and the imagistic vistas of Fleet Foxes. While the subject matter may feel esoteric—“My unconscious named the tongue/Of the lights of closed eyes” goes a characteristic lyric—Izenberg and his band let the music drift pleasantly to earth. The melodies 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.
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