It takes Alex G four songs to get there, but “Beam Me Up” acknowledges Headlights as his first album with a true talking point, bound to color nearly everyone’s experience from the Tumblr-era diehards to the recent converts — nine albums and 9 million monthly Spotify followers later, why would someone as self-sufficient and camera-shy as Alex G finally sign to a major label?
“Some things I do for love/Some things I do for money/It ain’t like I don’t want it/It ain’t like I’m above it” sure sounds like an answer at first, but after dozens of times flipping that line over in my mind, it never lands the same way twice. Is Headlights necessarily the thing he’s doing for money? Is he even talking about himself? Seconds later, he’s a stressed-out football…

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