★★★★★
"There's nothing we can do / We were born to die fools." So goes the chorus of "Lover's Game", the best song on the kaleidoscope of a record that is Myth. The lyric does capture the youthful, carefree effervescence that so defines the game of love, but in a way it speaks volumes to the members of Geographer. There is a sort of devil-may-careness to their music; not in a lack of artistic interest, but rather a free-spirited approach to songwriting...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Release Date: February 28, 2012 The year is 2008. House of Heroes has just released The End Is Not The End, a record (as a small band) that will define the rest of their careers. The album presents a near perfect look into what a pop-rock band should sound like. House of Heroes was a great band before the release, but they were then propelled into new heights from which they will never look back. We arrive at 2012...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-03-06
★★★★★
Release Date: February 28, 2012 On Geographer's 2010 release Animal Shapes, a slightly different version of the song "Kites" was the second track. Here, on the recently released Myth, it's the album's send-off number, doing so in a synth-drenched blaze of drum-machined glory. I'm not sure what message the California three-piece is trying to tell us, other than they obviously find much merit in "Kites...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-03-06
★★★★★
Rock Four years after channeling personal tragedy into song on Geographer's striking first album, "Innocent Ghosts," front man Michael Deni finds his center. On the San Francisco electronic music trio's second full-length release, the New Jersey transplant whips out his inner Bruce Springsteen, offering passionate, clear-eyed vignettes over Brian Ostreicher's clattering rhythms and the mournful strains of Nathan Biaz's cello. "Do you want me tonight?" he sings. "We could go for a drive...
- www.sfgate.com
2012-03-06
★★★★★
When the indie kids put down their guitars and start toying around with synthesizers and drum machines, more often than not it comes out a little dampened. Sad electro-pop was always a 'thing' but not nearly to the brooding, pacing-around-the-empty-bedroom levels of slow-burning angst that bands like The Postal Service and Junior Boys brought to the table...
- www.adequacy.net
2010-10-18
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