037: Pegg - Geronimo
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The real joy, of course, is revelation. Those moments where you finding yourself beaming at the sound pouring out of your speakers not carrying with it an abundance of newness, of remarkable confusion. Not because you know it and understand it, because you don't and you don't. It's joy, or something like it.
And joy ripples and rumbles throughout 'Geronimo' - like hot blood through cold veins - the first single from the new album by Pegg. Led by Xander Duell, Pegg is New York collective whose debut self-titled album is "the result of a reclusive savant uniting a group of like-minded musicians at the River Church, a laboratory-slash-funhouse of his own invention."
Quite how to pin the song down feels unknowing, indeed fruitless, such is the singular energy that propels it out into the world. 'Geronimo' is also the title of a Young Fathers song and there are echoes of that band in the collective power of its persuasion. There's also a great whack of soulfulness here, as well as unbirdled exploration, a reaching for something glittering just out of reach, and it all swells together alongside a classic-NYC-indie-rock heartbeat.
It's a lot; but it works beautifully.
The whole record is produced by - and features - Bartees Strange and there's definitely an element of his unvarnished, heart-not-head approach across this first track. Perhaps it's best then to just let the heart have it; play it loud and louder and don't worry about trying to make any kind of sense of it at all.
The full album arrives August 23rd, 2024.
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