Music Review // Geologist "Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?" (Drag City Records)

https://geologist.bandcamp.com/album/can-i-get-a-pack-of-camel-lights 

The first song on "Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?" reminds me of the Sabu theme from ECW (shoutout Harry Slash).   The sound of Geologist is instrumental electronic rock overall, but the songs each seem to tell their own story, which can come together at the end to tie it all up nicely.   "RV Envy" has that ~black and yellow~ back and forth, while "Not Trad" is almost drone but also a walking kind of country song.  It reminds me of Oregon Trail.

"Compact Mirror/Last Names" has these Undertaker-like gongs, wind chimes and then it just drops off into harsh static.  At this point of the album, I tend to kind of drift away into the music.  There are these sweet bass line grooves on "Government Jobs", but then everything begins to feel hypnotizing and I'm just lost in the music to where it doesn't feel like each song is its own song any more and this just becomes one big song.

With electronics horns, sad strings,  ringing and dinging of the bell we're deep into "Pumpkin Festival" and "Shelley Duvall", which is something I never expected to type.  Deep bass drone goes into a takeoff on "Sonora".  The percussion picks up the pace and the sound comes full circle.  Those ideas of Sabu, ~black and yellow~ and just what I feel like was heard previously on this album, feels revisited one last time.  If you play this on repeat so that "Sonora" loops back to "Oracle Road" it becomes an infinite experience of joy.