HOUSE OF SUGAR | (SANDY) ALEX G

Jame Retting at Stereogum writes: That music is often inexplicable, but House Of Sugar — his latest album and third for Domino — is maybe the most concise summation of Giannascoli’s many talents, a little bit of everything for anyone who has ever taken an interest in the Philadelphia boy wonder. It’s a collection of exquisite hauntings, songs threaded together by a clawing sense of unease. House Of Sugar is Giannascoli’s most cinematic work yet. It’s not difficult to imagine him continuing on in the lineage of delightfully unsettling horror movie scores that have come out in the last few years — Ari Aster, get in touch! — and House Of Sugar leans into that. At times the album’s surreal fever dream sounds like a waking nightmare. . . .