Alex Blum Blends Blues Guitar & Future-Funk on “Consider Every little thing You Hear About Me”
North Carolina native Alex Blum delivers a heady, genre-bending assertion along with his movies single, “Consider Every little thing You Hear About Me”—an introspective, blues-soaked odyssey that sits someplace between confessional and cosmic, wrapped in gritty guitars and minimalist digital manufacturing.
Now streaming in every single place, the observe is a standout from Blum’s 2025 album Good Climate, a self-produced tour by way of blues-rock terrain with detours into hip-hop, ambient, and progressive sonic realms. Constructed from the bottom up with Blum on guitar, vocals, harmonica, drums, keys, and manufacturing, “Consider Every little thing You Hear About Me” is equal elements confrontation and transcendence.
“It’s a track about issues folks say about one another,” Blum writes. “On one stage, you recognize it’s in your energy to not let different folks’s lies have an effect on you. However on the identical time, your life may be very a lot affected by them it doesn’t matter what you do.”
The track reads like a modern-day blues diss observe with out names, biting with sarcasm:
“So consider the whole lot you hear about me / And be sure to ask for particulars too / And go take all of your authority / And go make it true.”
The observe’s psychedelic guitar solo—layered with delay within the spirit of Eddie Hazel’s “Maggot Mind” and John Frusciante’s whammy-warped leads—anchors the emotional surge.
“It’s not fairly rock music due to the electronics, and never fairly digital music both as a result of it’s principally pushed by the taking part in,” Blum explains. “However general the track nonetheless feels bluesy.”
This duality defines Good Climate, the follow-up to Blum’s fast-tracked blues LP Converse Goals to Me. It’s a cohesive but eclectic physique of labor that threads collectively his numerous catalogue: from conventional blues and instrumental guitar EPs to danceable beats, ambient textures, and even a rap mixtape. Nonetheless, it at all times returns to what issues most: the guitar and the message.
Blum’s music, rooted in Chapel Hill and solid from late-night Asheville sidewalks and solo studio classes, is soaked in authenticity and unfiltered expression. A line cook dinner by day and a sonic architect by evening, he brings the identical uncooked vitality to the studio as he as soon as dropped at the streets of Asheville and Nashville, busking with an amp and an concept.
Hello Alex! Good to see you once more! Care to introduce your self to the readers for these not acquainted with your music?
I’m a multi-instrumentalist and a composer in a number of kinds too. I’ve been taking part in music nearly my complete life, and proper now I’m simply doing it for the enjoyment of making music however I’d like to one way or the other transition my life to the place I’m making sufficient cash on music to stop a day job.
This observe blends blues, hip-hop, and psychedelia—how did you even start to strategy writing one thing so fluid in style?
For years, my musical strategy has itself been fluid in style. On the time that I began studying to supply my very own music at house round 2015 or so, I used to be primarily a rock musician, and realized it was essential to study to supply digital music and sample-based hip hop beats, which I additionally loved anyway, to get my expertise on a laptop computer laptop as much as proficiency. So I already had all these sounds at my fingertips earlier than I ever wrote the track. Music manufacturing is type of like cooking; you can have one dish that’s made with rice and another components however should you substitute the rice for pasta, now you’ve taken the identical factor and made it barely completely different; in the identical manner you’ll be able to combine and match any factor of a musical manufacturing corresponding to dwell drums vs drum machines, synth vs guitar, and so forth; and generate what would finally be an infinite variety of mixtures. I typically think about mixtures that attraction to me, and now that I’ve superior my manufacturing expertise, that may even come earlier than lyrics, melody, or the rest within the compositional course of.
You play almost each instrument on the report—what’s your writing course of like if you’re constructing a track from the bottom up?
Truly, I play each instrument, not almost each instrument, and I additionally blended and mastered the album in addition to doing the so-called “sound engineering”. Like I used to be saying, I’ve taken each single facet of the music manufacturing course of into my palms, and after undertaking that, my psychological course of has additionally included all of these strategies into the ideation course of. So once I was simply studying music, each track I wrote began with guitar, both a riff or a chord development, to which I might normally add the opposite components. Then I keep in mind someday seeing a band begin off their set with all of the members taking part in percussion, and I went on to put in writing my first track that was based mostly across the drum sample, and in addition began with the drums. As my vocal skills have developed through the years, I began composing just a few songs, beginning with the vocal half, and including the accompaniment in after. I recall writing the primary two tracks on the album, “Godsend” and “Hometown,” in that manner, singing out a capella, and I in all probability had all of the lyrics completed for each songs earlier than I found out the chords. These days, I’m additionally liable to begin a track off based mostly on a beat I produce, or perhaps a sound with an attention-grabbing tone. This strategy additionally helps me discover a bit extra selection in my songwriting in addition to serving to me proceed to hone my expertise on all of the features I’ve chosen to work on.
You’ve made the whole lot from blues information to rap mixtapes—how do you determine what musical lane to observe subsequent, or do you even assume in “lanes”?
In the end, I do need to generate a mode that sounds fully not like the rest anybody has ever heard, which I acknowledge continues to be some methods off. I actually simply make no matter I need to hearken to. My latest album, which is already a lot of the manner completed, is one other rock album, this time recorded on an digital drumset (Converse Goals to Me is recorded on dwell drums, and Good Climate is all computer-generated drums), so I just like the dwell really feel that the songs have as a consequence of my free-flowing tempo as I recorded the drums. I programmed a number of the songs on Good Climate to hurry up and decelerate subtly at essential factors within the track, however that impact comes by way of even higher when you’ve gotten an precise drummer maintaining time with no metronome, which is how I wish to report.
So I’ve just a few concepts and sounds kicking in my head that I need to actualize. As of proper now, I’m truly planning out as much as three extra albums after the one I’m ending, based mostly on kinds I need to discover. I need to make a reggae album, and I’ll begin that subsequent, once I’m accomplished with my present rock/blues-rock album. I even have an idea for a type of indie/people, acoustic-leaning album that can also be blended with noise music and ambient music, and experimental manufacturing strategies. I actually loved making my different new album titled “Summary Pattern-Based mostly Music,” which is a type of style all its personal; it’s an album I made utilizing principally samples from classical music that I fully re-arranged and used for composition. So it has the feel and really feel of what you’d name both ambient music or noise music at completely different instances, nevertheless it additionally has a compositional construction to it; you’re listening to new notes and melodies creating because the music can also be going by way of all kinds of sonic developments based mostly on pattern manipulation. So I need to maintain creating that method but additionally fuse it with songwriting. This album idea, this very distinct sound, has been residing in my head for various years now earlier than I’ve ever taken any steps in the direction of actualizing it. The opposite type I’m certain I finally need to make is a funk and R&B album. I even have some synth-pop tracks on my laptop that I’ve by no means launched, but when I finally determine to make extra songs like that, it may finally type an album, too.
The album’s referred to as Good Climate—what does that phrase imply to you within the context of the music? Is it ironic, hopeful, or each?
Ironic and hopeful would each apply. I made the album in Asheville previous to Hurricane Helene, and the entire metropolis was shut down for some time. Each of my day jobs on the time had been flooded and are nonetheless not reopened. When the hurricane occurred, I principally had a principally completed album sitting on my laptop, and I used to be ready to complete it. Then, after the hurricane occurred, I made a decision to only go forward with it, and it was a simple strategy to get issues shifting in my life once more by releasing the album. “Good Climate” is principally saying, you can have a traditionally harmful hurricane, and you may nonetheless simply get on with it and select to understand the climate nearly as good any manner you slice it.