I coulda been the king of this town
Howdy! We’re back to the smaller blurbs rather than song analyses, although that was fun. Maybe I’ll do one of those every once in a while. For now, here are just some normal ol’ song recs. I’m giving y’all two of them today, so it’s still a little long! I’ve never been concise.
Today’s song rec(s): “Low Era” + “3D Country” x Geese
“Low Era” from Geese’s debut album was one of my favorite songs of 2021. I described it to anyone who took my recommendations even vaguely seriously as “Foals meets Franz Ferdinand.” At that point, the boys behind Geese were New York high schoolers, so that description might seem like it implies that their sound had some derivative element evoking images of them kicking it back to their parents’ vinyl collections containing a wasteland of elder-millennial gems and scattered classics like Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, deciding that’s the music they would make. But I’m happy to report that they actually sound more like contemporaries to the early aughts bands rather than part of a “post-whatever” genre trying too hard to live in a past they never knew.
Now the kid legends are releasing some new music — and it’s groovier, louder and more fun. “3D Country,” the lead single and title track from their upcoming album, still draws from some of the psychedelic influences that the first album benefited from, but turned up by at least eleven notches. They’ve managed to make that sound extremely entertaining and self-deprecating without ever stumbling into kitschy, in contrast to Greta Van Fleet, a band permanently banned from the Simp Lagoon waterpark for the sonic crimes it continues to commit.
“3D Country” really answers the question: who doesn’t want to be a cowboy? I sure do. I bet you do, too. And surely Geese aspire to be as well. With this track, and hopefully the rest of their soon-to-be-released sophomore album, they join the ranks of my favorite New York cowboys (right next to Dougie Poole, who recently saw me trip up the stairs and scrape my leg at a bar in Gowanus after failing to woo him).
See ya later, friends! Remember that life is humiliating and that’s okay.
The picture above is by Daniel Topete. Again, I do not own anything.
In fact, I should give my shitty landlord a HUGE shout-out here for raising the rent of my already obscenely overpriced apartment so much that I will now be EXTRA broke for the next few months while I find a new place to live.
If you got any leads for mid-July or August 1 move-ins, lmk.