ALEX EBERT | NEW ALBUM COMING 2020
Alex Ebert Announces Ambitious Sophomore Album ‘I vs I’, Teases More New Music Coming in 2020
Indie folk hitmaker Alex Ebert announces his most expansive album yet: 'I vs. I' (out January 31st via Community Music & AWAL). The eclectic collection of songs is a sprawling examination of existence tackling subjects that pre-occupy mankind, from love and sex (“Her Love”, “Fluid”) to the passage of time and the chase for eternal youth (“Automatic Youth”). On ‘I vs. I’, Alex crafts a story about “personal futurism” via the creation of an anti-hero moving through an increasingly unfamiliar world. Tackling these heady topics with a range of sounds just as immense, from the fun-punk sound that fans of Ima Robot are familiar with to more doleful indietronic folk reflections in the vein of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, this indie folk mainstay’s second solo record following 2011’s ‘Alexander’ solidifies his place among the pantheon of alternative music’s finest.
Today, Alex Ebert releases a new single and video off the record called “Stronger”. Amid a flurry of handclaps and an airy melody bolstered by a whistle and Ebert’s high-register, this jazzy track explores the highs and lows of a relationship. “Oh, you’re making me stronger / Or you’re making me work, work work”, Ebert croons over the dreamy piano-driven arrangement, calling to mind his folkier work and speaking to the deeper complexities of everyday modern love.
“This album tells the story of a cavalier attitude towards a partner, a break-up, the distress of the break-up, the anger and exploration, the contemplation of death, the coming back into the fold of the party, and the eventual finding of love again. It describes the past three years of my life. It’s almost a concept album in how linear the story is actually told”
About Alex Ebert
LA-bred, New Orleans-based Alex Ebert is a musician, filmmaker, activist and father. He founded the bands Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot, and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Score in 2014 for his work on All Is Lost. Ebert established himself as one of alternative music’s leading voices with a folksy, whimsical musicality and a surreal onstage persona that has garnered praise from SPIN, Consequence of Sound, Variety, KCRW, and The New York Times. A social activist, Ebert is the founder of Big Sun Foundation, which specializes in facilitating Community Land Trusts. He is also the CEO of crowd-sourced social radio app Tuners, contributed a song to Shia Labeouf-written 2019 drama Honeyboy, and is writing a book called 'Kingdom Cool'. He resides in New Orleans, Louisiana.
'I vs I’
Track Listing
To The Days
Jealous Guy
Automatic Youth
Miles Away
Hands Up
I Smoke
Miracle
Stronger
Gold
King Killer
Fluid
Alex Meets The Night
Her Love
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