For my second album, Shine, I teamed up with a stellar jazz trio in Berlin. Their steady rhythms and mellow tones underpin the entire album, whether the tracks are stipped down in minimalistic arragments or expand with other instruments adding to the texture to the songs.

It is an album about change and transformation. The songs explore juxtapositions between youth and aging, children and parents, robots and humans. Do insects feel like they're dying when they metamorphose from one state to another? Will there come a time when choosing to stay fully human will be a subversive act? What remains of a relationship when you burn it down to its essence?

Part feel-good jazz, part sophisticated folk with a tiny chunk of rock and a springling of pop, this album stretches its arms around diverse genres and brings them together around a kitchen table where everyone is welcome.

Alex Spencer - 11. Stay Human

Mellow and crystalline, thoughtful and reflective. Well-brewed and seasoned songwriting drawing melodically from Jazz and lyrically from Folk.

Alex Spencer - 11. Stay Human

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