A Fresh Album from Geepers!
A brand new album release from Geepers! just dropped, and believe me when I say that this record comes through as an absolute Soiree of pop music in all formats you can think of.
The Snoozin' album has no snoozers on it whatsoever; it so happens. This is a record that tackles so many fun and colorful approaches, soundscapes, and textures that by the time you get a few songs into it, you begin to expect the unexpected.
The record wastes very little time coming in with its first full track after a short intro, and the song is called "Talk About".
"Talk About" is a damn near perfect way to introduce the record as it starts giving you some of the key Staples that you can expect to hear for a lot of the rest of the release.
Vivacious and colorful synths, addictive grooves, a heavy-handed indie-pop approach, a beautiful blend of aesthetics that takes elements of lo-fi approaches and brings them into this robust soundscape, and a lot of honesty, which gives the record a ton of personality.
Having said that, this is not the kind of record you only listen to a few tracks from. This is a record that you should be listening to from beginning to end, all in one shot.
Listening to a few songs might give you some ideas of what you can expect, as I mentioned earlier. There are staples in that first track that show face throughout the record; however, a few tracks from this album will not give you anywhere near the full spectrum of what it has to offer as a whole.
This is important because this record is like an escape. It pulls you away from wherever you are and whatever you're doing and puts you in a different world for a little bit.
It's a fun and danceable atmosphere filled with vibrant keys, synths, guitar work, a little bit of fuzz tone attribute, it gets a little grungy and a little garage at times too, which I like, and encompasses this massive slew of influences all in one record.
Tracks like "Home Team" offer up healthy doses of guitar Hooks and vocals that follow suit, giving you a thick set of layers and textures to hang on to, and a lot of the hooks throughout the record end up bouncing around in your head for hours or even days after the songs have ended.
This is a very satisfying record. It fulfills your pop needs from every angle you can possibly think of.
I also love how it incorporates vintage tonality on the synths and some guitars, along with how songs are written as a whole, along with a more current indie pop and bedroom pop platform.
The combination of these things is brilliant. The old and the new school being brought together makes perfect sense for a record like this one.
There are definitely more than a few surprises around the corners, and you have such great elements of classic contemporary pop flowing through the veins of the record, letting you know that some of those influences are indeed from the mid to late 80s or 90s.
That aesthetic is completely nailed. The atmosphere that this record breeds is all its own, and I find that refreshing to the max.
This is a record that you listen to with headphones on because, not only do you have loads of pop hooks and catchy choruses, but you have those layers that come in and out. Listening to this with headphones is the best way to pick up on all of that stuff.
You can tell there was a lot of attention to detail during the creation of this record, but it never loses its personality, which is maybe the most important aspect of the entire thing.
Songs can be really fun, but they can also be extremely honest if you really listen to the lyrics, so you can tell some of these songs actually came from someplace very real.
These are the attributes that make a good pop record. Songs that are danceable and catchy, with hooks that stick with you, but also deliver that human element. Songs that you can connect with and relate to because of the lyrical content.
This was a massive pop release that really blew me away, and again, I suggest listening to this from start to finish all the way through because that's the best way to do it.
The record spans 12 tracks plus a little intro at the start and reaches a cool 46 minutes in length, so you have the time to do it.
This was inventive, just a bit outside the box, and very charismatic.
Take a listen to this and see what it does for you.
