M. Geddes Gengras patches in detachment on upcoming album Ishi, out on Leaving in June

M. Geddes Gengras patches in detachment on upcoming album Ishi, out on Leaving in June

Ever reluctantly attended a leg-shaving party where the regular attendees rotate unorthodox shaving creams every week, from peanut butter to aged chicken broth? If so, then alienation might be a feeling with which you’re intimately acquainted, despite an expressed willingness to maintain an open mind when it comes to all hair-removal fetishes.

On a larger scale, M. Geddes Gengras will be releasing Ishi on June 24, and like the last wild Indian for whom the album is named, it’s said to be a tale of, or was at least inspired by, chronic human disconnect. Specifically, Gengras describes the conceptual underpinnings of the album as having to do with the “schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it,” affected as he was by the recent deaths of two people who “suffered from this affliction.” Accordingly, as a contrast to the enthralling modular flux emanating from his previous album Test Leads, Ishi stands to be somewhat more appreciable in its introspection and ambience. The separation isn’t as small as the insensitive would like to trivialize; the distance feels worlds apart! And Gengras ably conveys this while simultaneously making me feel like a disguised extraterrestrial. “They still haven’t figured out my true identity…”

I’d recommend getting on the Gengras train prior to its fashionability, as if Icon Give Thank (TMT Review) didn’t already serve as motivation. Really enjoyable stuff.

Ishi tracklisting:

01. Ishi
02. Passage
03. Threshold
04. Vigil (CD/digital-only)

• M. Geddes Gengras: https://www.facebook.com/mggengras
• Leaving: http://leavingrecords.com

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