On their past releases, Geezer
have been rather like a shy stripper. We’ve gotten a peek at this, and a
glimpse at that, and we’ve all pretty much come to the conclusion that when we
got to see everything we’d all be weak in the knees. Along comes this beast of
an album and we finally get the full monty and we just can’t stop staring. It’s
just flat out more spectacular than we could’ve ever imagined.
This is a band that seems rooted in the blues, but the trunk
and branches feel free to move in different directions and take us to
interesting places. This is fuzzed out, heavy music. You can almost feel the
dankness crawling out through your speakers, and if some cannabis smoke
happened to start curling up off the turntable, you wouldn’t be surprised by
that either. This is the band you hope is playing at your local watering hole
when you’re 5 shots and 3 beers into your Saturday night and shit’s about to
get weird.
“One Leg Up” is one of those tracks that I could put on a
loop and literally listen to it all day long.
This song has some sort of pungent magic. It’s basically just one long
groove, just a one riff song that the band have described as their tribute to
Iggy and the Stooges. I mentioned weird a moment ago; how about a line in the
lyrics that goes “I got a bag full of donkey teeth”? I mean, what the hell man?
What does that even mean? You have to hear this song to appreciate just how good
it is, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, do so.
“Sun Gods” and “Bi-Polar Vortex” are some amazing fuzzed
out, blissed out jams that just seem to ebb and flow in just the right way.
They both clock in a little over eight minutes, and when you are listening to
them you just don’t want them to end. Yet they both also seem to end at just
the right moment. I tell ya, there’s some alchemical stuff going on with this
release.
“Dust” needs a little nod as well. It’s got a very tasty
Middle Eastern flavor to it (are we allowed to talk about Middle Eastern things
now that Trump is in office?) Another song that just jams along, not like some
jam band where everyone is playing 100 notes a minute, but more of a stately,
medicated type of jam, the kind where you just want the band to go through that
passage of music one more time, and then another time, and then another time……
If you are a collector or complete-ist you will want the CD
and vinyl both, because each version shares seven tracks and each has a
different bonus track. You can find the CD at Ripple Music and the vinyl, if there are any copies left, at STB Records. Add this one to your
collection, friendzos, I promise that you’ll go back to it time and time again.
-ODIN
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