Arizona-based experimental pop outfit, Emby Alexander, are unquestionably adept at crafting resplendent, oblique and big-hearted hooks that relentlessly shift and wriggle, as is the nature of their infectious, experimental pop schema. Touring extensively and playing festivals throughout North America, the band has garnered international recognition, opening for The Dodos on their 10-year anniversary tour of Visiter, and sharing bills with Weyes Blood, Courtney Marie Andrews, Miniature Tigers, Chicano Batman and more.
Lead singer and primary songwriter, Michael “Emby” Alexander, and his band are getting ready to cough up a new set of singles “Up in the Air” b/w “Morality of Accuracy in Photojournalism,” evincing a fun-size glimpse of what’s to come on the upcoming album, SOARS ERA, the followup to 2019’s ebullient, psychedelic pop treatment, Cactus Candy; but if it’s any indication of what SOARS ERA has to offer, Alexander has hit the mark, without equivocation.
Glide is proud to premiere Emby Alexander’s whimsical “Up In The Air” a composition that rings with Arcade Fire’s mix of the jubilant and wild, where almost any instrument is a gamer. The tune was recorded mostly at Alexander’s “Spine Island” home studio in downtown Phoenix and gives us listeners a taste of the fully realized edgy indie where melody and experimentation meet to create something bigger than the song itself.
“Up in the Air’ is my attempt to write a positive or uplifting song, despite the odds,” says Alexander. “Your perspective changes your mood, or how you deal with any problems in life, and just about anything you look at has a positive or negative side to it. So, this song sort of marvels at the ability to change one’s outlook, in order to change
“This song further explores our own made-up genre called “Tallwave”. The aim of the “Tallwave” movement is to create as many different parts in a song out of a singular repeating motif or riff. The goal is to make the parts feel vastly different from one another on their “surface” while, in reality, the part is being made essentially of the same basic structure. The chords and pulse are unchanged throughout the song, but the melodies and timbre fluctuate to insinuate or imply changes. It’s kind of a psycho-auditory illusion. The concept was borne out of playing mantra music with the ensemble or alone with a loop pedal. everything,” explains Alexander.
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