George Alley Releases Music Videos for “Summer Trophies” and “Choice To Be Bad”

Last month, George Alley’s self-titled debut album news followed his screening of the concert footage of his band on June 27th as the official LGBTQIA+ artist for Groundfloor Studios for Pride Month. A planned string of live shows and DJ sets will follow in September. These grand post-punk pop new songs reaffirm Alley’s description of the follow-up to his more sombre ballad “Just Leave Me Dreaming” as “a power record.”

Upon announcing the album, he explained:

“I was born being obsessed with all kinds of music from the punk songs I write about as a journalist and professor, to the pop songs I grew up listening to while auditioning for the New Mickey Mouse Club, to the dance music I have been hearing in clubs from New York to Berlin. This is the album I’ve always wanted to make.”

Discussing “Summer Trophies,” George Alley says:

“‘Summer Trophies’ was one of the first two songs I released ten years ago. When it was first released, it paid for my trip to California and my Lumix camera I still use. I wanted an end of summer song. My own ‘Boys of Summer’ and used that end of summer nostalgia metaphor for life in a larger lens. I had performed this song live a few times with violinist Russel Kotcher and cellist Eric Coyne. It inspired this new version which was one of the first things Ian Romer and I recorded. We started from scratch changing the tempo and Ian recorded an amazing acoustic guitar solo.”