Geek the Girl

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艺人: Lisa Germano
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厂牌: 4AD
发行时间: 1994年10月25日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Heather Phares

With 1994's Geek the Girl, Lisa Germano found the perfect balance of her work's inherent contrasts. On songs like &My Secret Reason,& soft, intricate arrangements surround her raw, whispery vocals and unflinching lyrics, making it even easier for them to get unsettlingly close to you. A largely autobiographical album about a girl's emotional and sexual coming of age, each of Geek the Girl's songs -- particularly the title track -- fairly tremble with awkward sadness and self-discovery. Shimmering, hesitant songs like &Trouble& sound like they might float off the album, but Germano's delivery of lyrics like &Little by little you touched my heart/ Where they had touched it too& gives them a delicate determination. Geek the Girl also braves the uglier possibilities of adolescent girlhood, whether it's rape (&Cry Wolf&) or growing up too fast (&Sexy Little Girl Princess&). The album's centerpiece, &... A Psychopath,& inspired by Germano's own experiences with a stalker, mixes excerpts of a 911 caller confronting an intruder, Germano's deadpan delivery of lyrics like &A baseball bat beside my bed/You win again/I am alone /And paralyzed& and brooding, scraping violins. Geek the Girl never feels whiny, thanks to Germano's abstract lyrics and the album's clever structure: snippets of whimsical Italian folk tunes bookend Geek the Girl's darkest, most intense moments, offering a tiny bit of comic relief. Similarly, &Cancer of Everything,& a harshly funny cry for attention, borrows Happiness's ironic humor. Hypnotic instrumentals like &Phantom Love& and &Just Geek& also provide respites from the album's wrenching emotions, but songs like &...Of Love and Colors& and &Stars& end the album with something more important: hope. Geek the Girl's brave whispers hit on more emotional truths than the self-important screams of Germano's mid-'90s, women-in-rock contemporaries.

Geek the Girl

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