Morgan Geist - Double Night Time
(Environ) CD
Morgan Geist is one half of the legendary New Jersey duo Metro Area. Over the past decade, MA have fused funk, R&B, house & techno with seamless proficiency, creating some modern dance classics. Geist has released a sparse amount of work, but finally delivers here with a full length of slick late night cruisers, fit for dance floors, car stereos, headphones, bedrooms, you name it. Double Night Time comes with an added little bonus feature: the bulk of the album’s tracks are littered with coos & whispers from Jeremy Greenspan of the Junior Boys. Greenspan’s style is employed brilliantly by Geist, who ends up using the vox as a final layer over retro percussions, vintage analog lines & ebb/flow melodicism. The first single “Detroit” has two hearts: one lingering with ghosts of passion (a girl? the city?); the other willfully toying with the fruits of Kraftwerk’s sonic legacy. Beautiful electronic sound environments.