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Geotic - The Anchorite

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Geotic — The Anchorite (Basement’s Basement)

Photo by Will Wiesenfeld

Will Wiesenfeld describes the music he makes as Geotic as “passive listening” which suggests the sort of soothing, uncomplicated sounds you might doze off to during a massage or pedicure. The title of his latest album The Anchorite conjures an image of a hermetic life, religious rather than misanthropic, an individual seeking separation from the world and gazing intently inward. Geotic’s music is, however, is too sophisticated and engaging to allow for such indulgence. Ambient tracks built primarily from guitar lines circle and spread like root systems beneath the soil and emerge to form cerebral saplings and auditory thickets. Wiesenfeld is not afraid to confound expectations and The Anchorite demands and rewards active listening.

 “The Quarrel” opens with a mist of static and a percussive patter on the bottom end as the guitar thrums. There is an unexpected physicality in the squeak of fingers moving on the fretboard. The volume and tempo don’t seem to change even as Weisenfeld ups the vigor of his playing. Yet the effect is more serene than agitated. It’s a template for much of the album. Introspective, inviting, full of detail. The title track sounds like a conversation as the motifs mirror each other from octaves apart, the lower notes rounding out and pushing forward the higher. Yearning haunts “The Men-Shaped Fog” with its delicate guitar work shrouded in barely audible hiss above a bed of almost ceremonial keys. Elsewhere, Wiesenfeld experiments with more disconcerting textures and harsher sounds which are closer to his other recording project as Baths. The woozy distorted synths in “The Injury” make the song feel like a boat borne on rough swells. Album highlight, “The Lime of the Stars” reaches a glacial post-rock grandeur with layers of static, and electric guitar fuzz building into an obliterating wall of sound. Yet even buried within even the most placid surfaces one hears hints of distorted countermelodies, heavily deaccelerated miniatures which wouldn’t feel out of place on a MBV track and queasy drifts of sound that belie the notion of passive listening.

Geotic creates a restless meditation on the paradox of engagement. Even as society splinters it is impossible to withdrawal entirely no matter how tempting it may seem. With otherness threatened and identity weaponized, built families and communities provide refuge. The Anchorite seems to acknowledge serenity and turmoil will always coexist in a balance whose fragility may be ameliorated through recognition and acceptance.

Andrew Forell

[captainhysunstuff]

The Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space soundtrack finally released on Spotify!!! At laaaast~!!! *rolls around in absolute delight*

[jellycreature]

been listening to a lot of Geotic and veeery excited to sit down and listen to his newest album ✨

[robothell]

me when i listen to Baths

[lmaonade]

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[the-witch-of-the-oceans]

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