#geotic

[grrlmusic]

Geotic - The Anchorite

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[dustedmagazine]

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

[trevlad-sounds]

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Kenji Kihara Ray of Hope (short ver.) Bubble Golden Rod and the Hairy Wookie Rmz 432 Hz Flickering Satellite Joseph Shabason Westmeath Sonna One Most Memorable Geotic Simplehearted

Slow Dancing Society By Your Side hissquiet Inextricably Bound Any Colour You Like Our Saturday Satellite Almanacs Green Cathedral Jogging House Fires HC Clifford Sails Polypores Slow Fruiting

Oneohtrix Point Never Ouroboros Nakayama Munetoshi pulse Matthew Bourne Somewhere I Have Never Travelled Motionfield Injection 7 Casino Versus Japan Hello You Stellardrone Cosmic Sunrise

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[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 ✨

[1997dodgeneon]

Listen/purchase: Terraformer by Geotic

[postambientlux]

• geotic • to not now, nor to ever, despair • bit.ly/g-TnNnTeD

[album-a-day-project]

2/26/24

Geotic

The Anchorite

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This feels a bit like a Mac Demarco guitar album. Very dreamy electric guitars. The artist, Will Wiesnfield categorized this as 'passive listening', which I think fits this perfectly. It is an album to get lost into, throw your buds in and cook some lunch or clean the apartment.

6/10

[minimusics]

"The Anchronite" - Geotic

This album is purely instrumentals, pianos and guitars and electronics, which is not normally something I'd vibe with, but it was perfect for my quiet morning while I cleaned and scrolled.

First listen: true Would listen again: Probably not Good for: meditating, sitting quietly, thinking

[grrlmusic]

Geotic - The Quarrel 

[vaahdoesstuff]

Listen/purchase: The Quarrel by Geotic

[teratotally]

BEE AND PUPPYCAT MUSIC ON SPOTIFY

[trevlad-sounds]

Sofabed by nature 3

Released 22 march 2012

Air-J'ai Dormi Sous L'Eau

Balmorhea-Bowsprit

Martin Denny-Exotica

Gianni Ferrio-Die Geheimnisvolle Insel

Eluvium-Amreik

The Album Leaf-Twentytwofourteen

Good Weather For An Airstrike-Aurora

Lucky Dragons-Open Melody

Eluvium-In a Sense

Flica-In Dreams

Colleen-Ritournele

Billy Comfort-The Spirit

Antonymes-Endlessly

Gonzales-Overnight

Dakota Suite-The end of trying part IV

Claude Larson-Growth

Ochre-Reunion

Geotic-Beaming Husband

Dustin O’halloran-Opus 28

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