New Sound (CD)
Geordie Greep
Amoeba Review
One word immediately comes to mind when listening to Geordie Greep's New Sound — "visionary." These genre-smashing, boundary-pushing songs crackle with the energy of experimentation, with the transmutation of high art into over-the-top, technicolor sonic spectaculars. The album seems to draw on the last 70 years of pop-culture, from melodramatic golden age of Hollywood musicals to Zappa-esque weirdness to drolly sophisticated ennui in the vein of the Pet Shop Boys. The compositions move from math rock to jazz-funk to show-stopping Prince-inspired R&B to punk rock to 1950s-style Latin floor show numbers. Fear not: if this may sound chaotic, it's tightly-controlled, directed in service of storytelling by the maestro and his impressive cast of collaborators. New Sound is a true original that's deeply imaginative and so enjoyable you won't be able to resist giving the record spin after spin.
Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Blues
|
Geordie Greep | 05:42 |
2.
Terra
|
Geordie Greep | 04:18 |
3.
Holy, Holy
|
Geordie Greep | 06:03 |
4.
The New Sound
|
Geordie Greep | 04:47 |
5.
Walk Up
|
Geordie Greep | 04:25 |
6.
Through a War
|
Geordie Greep | 05:44 |
7.
Bongo Season
|
Geordie Greep | 02:35 |
8.
Motorbike
|
Geordie Greep | 06:01 |
9.
As If Waltz
|
Geordie Greep | 07:53 |
10.
The Magician
|
Geordie Greep | 12:20 |
11.
If You Are But a Dream
|
Geordie Greep | 03:07 |