(Sandy) Alex G, aka singer, songwriter and musician Alex Giannascoli, releases new album House of Sugar. The album is the Philadelphian’s ninth overall and third for Domino. Giannascoli worked closely with Jacob Portrait, who mixed both Rocket and 2015’s Beach Music and helped to balance each of House of Sugar’s dense, multi-faceted tracks. As the product of extended focus and planning, House of Sugar emerges as Giannascoli’s most meticulous, cohesive album yet: a statement of artistic purpose, showing off his ear for both persistent earworms and shifting textures and the out-there sonic adventurism that’s made previous (Sandy) Alex G records so singular.