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January 09, 2008
Where did Custer get those wonderful gloves?
Obviously, since I feel compelled to write a post about it, you should take my word for it when I say that this is the most excited I've been about a new band in a long time.
Geronimo contains two of the main members of one of my favorite (extinct) bands of the last, uh, decade: Despistado (whom I have duly mourned at least three times in the traditional black-on-pink). Dagan and Leif (the singer and lead guitarist from Despistado) have reunited, and they're still in Saskatchewan, making the same thrilling, delicate, spun-electricity music that they were making 3-4 years ago. For those of you who listened to Despistado, that should be reason enough to listen to this track.
Otherwise: Geronimo's music is slimmer, a little less viscous, maybe, than Despistado's was. 'Just Like Water' has those swatches of bright-light neon guitar that I loved, and Dagan's voice sounds even better now than it did a few years ago. Clearer. Clear as a strong peal. And the lyrics still shift from aphorism to narrative to tossed-off invective (I like this line: "my abstract thought/needs a Catholic marriage/to a practical object/pushing a baby carriage"). You could say: this song is the climb up and breezy pause at the top of a ladder leant up against the ivy-stubbled wall of a small house on a gray sky morning. You could say: this song is the quick grin from the stranger you held the door for. Both, I think, are equally valid.
Geronimo have an EP out, "Enlightenment in A Small Town", which is available for purchase or download over at CD Baby. You can listen to two other tracks at the band's myspace, the unbelievably good 'Hope and Fear' (which I wanted to post, but couldn't), and the believably good title track from the EP.
Posted by Kevin at January 9, 2008 10:18 PM
Comments
umm, hello. i was just wondering if there was any way you might be able to share the disco inferno 5 ep's with me? i saw that you had posted them back in the day and was hoping that maybe you wouldn't mind doing it again...or emailing them to me or something...please?
Posted by: christopher at February 5, 2008 08:17 PM