Alex Siegel is a songwriter, producer and composer based in Los Angeles, CA.

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What do Skittles, therapy, and surfing all have in common? Singer-songwriter Alex Siegel knows. A therapist changed Siegel’s music—his new fiancée, that is, who happens to be a therapist. And so did a dog named Skittles, and taking up surfing. More than signs of domestic, seaside bliss, Siegel has drunk deep from those sources of metaphysical joy and imbued it into his new album, Walk You Home (due June 28). “Making the record was like real love: you’re perfect as you are, and there’s also room for improvement,” Siegel laughs. “I was facing my own fears about commitment and about my own judging mind. I wanted to honor the feelings that were generating music as authentically as possible, to let them be a little messy rather than try and make something perfect.” As a result, Siegel’s latest stretches out, gently wrapped by the sunrise. In all its beginning, and all its end. 

“Sweet like honey/ Anytime you put it on me/ Ain’t it funny/ That we don’t have to be anybody,” Siegel sighs on the chorus to “Honey”, the first single from Walk You Home. His pastel falsetto glides across the mix of his father’s hand-me-down Yamaha acoustic guitar, tinkling Rhodes piano, and a smooth rhythm section—as if an AM radio hit from the early ‘70s had just made its way through a wormhole. Siegel played every note on the album and recorded it directly to tape in his own home, letting the honesty of the moment filter into the equally intimate lyrics. “I tried to keep myself to one or two takes, to not overwork it, to directly engage my heart and not overthink what followed,” he says. “Cutting out caffeine helped that, to come from a place of stillness.”

It’s clear that newfound love is the major driver marching through Walk You Home. The stair-step melody during “All of You” sounds like Siegel finding level after level of bewildering beauty, further testament to his ability to let small moments breathe into epic emotion. “I don't need a crystal ball/ To know that you have my heart/ And I don't need any more/ Than all of you,” he skies over gentle chops of acoustic and cushions of bass.

Siegel credits the depth of that mystic simplicity in part to Jake Aron at his studio in New York City, whose mixes helped the tracks blossom. “It felt like therapy to hand these pages of my diary over to Jake,” Siegel says. “It’s a discovery and a letting go, a way to transmute these massive feelings into light.” Album highlight “Sidelines” exemplifies that process, a song that finds its characters teetering at the end of a relationship. And rather than find any burning spite, Siegel sings from a place of peace and light certainty: “Don't tell me a lie/ Don't say that you love me/ If this is goodbye/ I'm sorry.”

Siegel’s previous album, 2022’s sublime Courage, hinged on his glittering vocals and thoughtful poetics, but Walk You Home shows an emboldened confidence in its intentionality. While he’s an accomplished jazz guitarist and former touring musician with Malian guitar legend Vieux Farka Toure, Siegel’s restraint lets each harmony soar that much higher.

Elsewhere, the rubbery “Roll Me” rides on Californian waves of taut guitar strumming and wordless backing vocals. The delicately fingerpicked “Pretty Places”, meanwhile, embraces the now—a reminder that forever may not be possible but every second that we get should be cherished. That contented presence and fulfillment pervade album closer “Wake Up”, gentle repetitions of the song’s title prodding you to be your fullest self. “Today is just what we make it/ Yesterday's old and faded/ I'll show you what's in my heart,” he exhales, allowing for an electric guitar solo to rumble through the mix like an alarm clock.

Even without knowing it actually happened, Walk You Home elicits the picture of Siegel and his fiancée curled up on the couch over his notebook, sharing art and love in an awe-inspiring ideal of creative domesticity. An easy certainty, a soft urgency, in walking back to yourself. A home, or the home within you. “I just wanted to share in the idea of finding someone that you want to walk home, this sweet concept of love and commitment,” he says. “You’ll have these cycles of doubt and questioning, but these songs are the realization of what can happen when you take that leap of faith.”

"LA’s Alex Siegel has mastered the wistful summer song. " ~ The Wild Honey Pie

“Dream-pop artist Alex Siegel’s undeniably kind and pensive vocals will draw listeners in instantly.” ~ EARMILK

"dreamy vocals” ~ KCRW

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