Gang Signs
Geist
Stream to Oct. 2
Geist, the debut album from Vancouver’s Gang Signs, is a dream within a nightmare within a dream. Stream the album one week in advance of its release and pre-order Geist here.
Geist is weird and great, gloomy and glamorous, a hypnotic utopia of electronic ambiance, wild dark heart and cool, chilled-out spaciousness. Like the fractious chaos of a dance floor in a cave entirely rigged with black light, Geist is the kind of party where you never know quite what will happen next and the tension is both delicious and vaguely unnerving, though never off-putting.
I’ve covered two of the tracks already, recommending them in our weekly Songs You Need to Hear profile of new music. “Mate” is a spacious, blissed-out meditation and the vocals, shared by Peter Ricq (HUMANS) and keyboardist Matea Sarenac, are catnip for fans of call-and-answer duets. If there's such a thing as a gentle way on which to end an all-night rave and welcome the first yawning rays of sunrise, this is that song.
The gloom/glam dark art of “Stay Awake” is a perfectly terrifying emotional nightmare in the best way possible. The spooky, repeating echo of the haunting phrase, “Oh, I trusted you,” will menace your heart.
Tracklist:
1. “Mate”
2. “Antidote”
3. “SW”
4. “LA on Monday”
5. “Silver”
6. “Back Up”
7. “So Long”
8. “Tonight”
9. “Heist”
10. “Stay Awake”
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by Andrea Warner via Electronic RSS
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