Alex G is releasing an album titled God Save the Animals on September 23. We've already heard the singles "Blessing" and "Runner," and now he's shared another track called "Cross the Sea." The song comes with an animated video by Elliot Bech that features a little animal lad who hatches from an egg while traveling—get this—across the sea. This Sonic-looking figure then gets struck by lightning and manages to grow monstrously big, all while singing: "I cross the sea yah, yah, yah, yah, yah / You can leave it to me / I cross the field for my baby / You can believe in me, yeah."
"Cross the Sea" features so many weird little intricacies: melancholic Auto-Tuned vocals hiding in the background, a rhythm that makes the hips want to sway, and then there's the main vocals that are both eerie and comforting? All that contends with what might be the track's most brilliant bit—a dramatic switch at the end with an electric laser-saw synth, doom-filled piano, and industrial clashes that rip like Earth-ending flashes of lightning. (That drastic switch is definitely the transition into his other great single "Blessing.") It's giving good Kanye? It's also giving a song that I want Future to rap over? Man, I dunno. It's a wild formula that showcases Alex G still has many unpredictable tricks up his sleeve.
Check it out below, and pre-order God Save the Animals here.
