Headlights
Headlights Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Alex G Alex G’s cryptic, heartfelt indie rock has earned him friends in interesting places: He contributed guitar and arrangements to Frank Ocean’s Endless and Blonde , he co-wrote and produced about half of Halsey’s The Great Impersonator , he’s toured with Foo Fighters, and he soundtracked Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 movie I Saw the TV Glow —a movie that, like G’s music, seemed almost instantly destined to be a cult classic, playing with nostalgia for early-’90s pop culture in ways that felt both comforting and deeply unsettling. He’s not a household name, but he touches a nerve. His first major-label album (whatever that really means in 2025), Headlights , isn’t different from his run of Domino albums (2015’s Beach Music to 2022’s God Save the Animals ) in kind so much as in degree. “Every couple weeks, I’d have a new song and just start working on it,” he tells Apple Music. “And then, at the end o...