Tom Misch’s Geography is a masterpiece of reflective chill beats and soulful musicality. This album is a lover and a friend; it has a heart and a spirit. Geography became the soundtrack to the feeling of falling in love. It’s something mysterious, reflective, and internal. But it’s also something dynamic, driving, and addictive. It is a perfect combination of uniqueness and relatability, of rhythms and melodies to cause you to leave it on “Loop Album” for hours, maybe even days. We crave its groove and taste the longing of Misch’s masterpiece. Is it funk/jazz/R&B/nu-disco/rap/indie/alternative? Does it matter? All that matters is finding a way back, so we can feel and reflect once more with Geography.
The day I discovered Tom Misch changed my life. A good friend mine, a dancer, sent me “Watch Me Dance” off of Misch’s 2016 Reverie EP. It was a suggestion for a concept video dedicated to our own dance community; a family we had chosen in life. Misch’s overall library had only consisted of EP’s and features at the time. April 2018, Misch’s first studio album, Geography, was released.
I was one month from moving from Boston to San Francisco, CA; the biggest move I’d made to date. Three albums were being looped through my life for that last month: Born and Raised by John Mayer, After Laughter by Paramore, and Geography by Tom Misch.
When Geography was released, my partner, who had already been living in San Francisco for the last three months, and I were both obsessed. Our musical taste intersected often and this was a perfect match. While listening to the album, I would think of him and know that he could be listening to the same notes and beats. I guess it became the 21st-century version of looking up at the moon and thinking of your distant lover, feeling comforted and less far from them because they’re looking at the same moon as you. Our moon was Geography.
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