
Over it’s brief half-hour runtime, Geidi Primes plays like a perversely haunted love letter. Boucher uses sugary vocals to disguise a shifty undercurrent that is equal parts coquettish and sinister. Album opener “Caladan” slinks through a Morricone-esque opening sample before soaring into an ethereal chorus that suddenly devolves at just under the two-minute mark into a Crystal Castlesish drone. This confident duplicity is par for the course on Geidi Primes. Even the more stripped-down tracks such as “Rosa” and “Feyd Rautha Dark Heart” exude a quiet menace prone to addictive replay value. A relentless carousel of subtle intensity, Geidi Primes reaches an unnerving pitch around its halfway mark with “Gambang” as sounds are layered upon looped samples all the while threatening to spiral out of cohesion at any moment. The delicate romanticism of “Venus In Fleurs” draws the listener back from this auditory precipice. Yet in typical Grimes fashion, “Grisgirs” plunges us right back into the mix where a wall of synth somehow cooperates with an endearingly scratchy beat which acts as a delicious bridge to the album’s final two tracks, “Shadout Mapes” and the music boxy “Beast Infection” (yes there is a song called “Beast Infection” and yes, it is music boxy). And have I mentioned Boucher’s tendency to slip in and out of a dreamy, far Eastern-inspired falsetto? Forget it. I’m out of adjectives when it comes to Geidi Primes. Like I said, this thing is oh so post.
STANDOUT TRACKS INCLUDE:
Grimes-Caladan by megapeng
Grimes - Rosa by Arbutus Records
Feyd Rautha Dark Heart - Grimes by The Rake
Grimes - Rosa by Arbutus Records
Feyd Rautha Dark Heart - Grimes by The Rake
- Fr. Jones
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Nice review, and sweet blog, dude. Check ours out sometimes. This is what we thought about the album in our Grimes - Geidi Primes Review.
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