Alex Saint Ivy describes his music as Indie Folk Power Pop, which gives you some idea of the different musical worlds that coalesced to create an Alex Saint Ivy song. Listen to his lyrics, and you'll often find a mixture of wry observation and irony, opening up windows into people's lives like the travelling folk storytellers of old. Listen to the music, and you get a different story, with big melodic hooks and layered harmonies that betray his pure pop sensibilities.