alexalone have shared a new single/video, "Electric Sickness," from their upcoming album ALEXALONEWORLD out August 13. "Electric Sickness" chugs forward on a steady, sustainer guitar and percussion, which carry the barely-there vocals of Alex, Hannah, and Sam. A close listen reveals the quiet but integral presence of pedal steel harmonics (Bennet LittleJohn), feedback (Andrew Hulett), and tape loops (Blake Robbins). Upon reaching the chorus, the instrumentation swells, with extra fuzz and clangorous percussion entering the fray, the latter providing the song's anchor. Watch the Brittany Reeber-directed video below. 

Not only the first song on the album, “Electric Sickness” is also the band’s very first song as a group. “alexalone started when my friend Jeff Mertz asked me if I would do the score for his documentary Slow Burn, which is about gentrification and the highway through the lens of Austin bbq folks,” Alex Peterson shares. “‘Electric Sickness’ was the first song I wrote with the intent of using it for the doc, and as a result it became the first ‘alexalone’ song.”

It also gives a proper introduction to ALEXALONEWORLD, an album crafted out of the past year’s isolation and its impact on one’s way of thinking. The songwriting itself happened between 2013-2019, while recording began in 2019 and carried over into 2020. Moody, introspective, with bursts of hope and rebelliousness throughout, the album reflects upon the world’s injustices and incongruities, influenced by the works of Tolkien, Murakami, and genre disruptors like Low, Boris, and Yo La Tengo.