Morgan Noise – “Geneva”

Morgan Wallace is a member of the wild London post-punk band Fat Dog. She also fronts her own band called Morgan Noise, performing music with through lines to rock, jazz, and experimental pop. Or at least those are the vibes I'm getting from "Geneva," the band's new single out today. I hear traces of Nilüfer Yanya and Black Country, New Road in there, and maybe even some early Sufjan Stevens? Wallace turns loose her bold yet fragile vocals over a moody, ever-shifting terrain of rolling grooves and complex chord structures. It feels sophisticated, but it goes down smooth.

Wallace offered this take:

"Geneva" is about looking back on a time that has now passed and being both within and without. Loosely written about rushing through many places at once, and not realising it’s over until it’s been over for a while. Looking back on something which has now become memory, playing round and round.

I wrote it as I write a lot of songs, solo at the piano. The band then made it into a living thing, opening with Georgia’s guitar part which she grew out of my piano ideas. It starts with just drums (Dillon) and guitar (Georgia), I like stripping the music back so that you can hear individuals in moments like this.

Listen below.