CD Review: Unlearn [2011]

Band: Fergus & Geronimo
Release: 01/2010
Label: Hardly Art

1. “Girls With English Accents” – B+
2. “Wanna Know What I’d Do” – B+
3. “Powerful Lovin” – B+
4. “Baby Boomer/Could You Deliver” – B
5. “Michael Kelley” – B
6. “Baby Don’t You Cry” – B+
7. “Where The Wall Are Made of Grass” – C
8. “The World Never Stops” – B-
9. “Forced Aloha” – B
10. “Could You Deliver” – C
11. “Unlearn” – B

Comments: This, the debut by Texans Fergus & Geronimo, is an odd one. The vocal monotony is pretty bearable and at times enticing. The songs, however, are not as monolithic. There’s some white-man soul (“Powerful Lovin”) in addition to rock and roll and doo-wop. A promising characteristic of F&G’s music is that it doesn’t sound forced. In some cases, it sometimes feels as if bands try to sound weird just to sound weird. This group is innately weird. It works to a degree, but the album remains a bit of clusterfuck if I’ve ever heard one.

Grade: B- (83)