ARTIST: Geoff Farina
TITLE: Already Told You
LABEL: Southern Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 171kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 09m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-04-00
RIP DATE: 2006-04-11
Track List
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1. Femmes DamnΘes 1:49
2. Already Told You 3:31
3. Molasses To Rum 2:35
4. Kin Of Carbons 1:57
Release Notes:
http://www.geofffarina.com/
http://www.southern.com/
ALREADY TOLD YOU is Geoff Farina's first solo effort since the break up of
Karate, the trio that was Geoff's main gig since 1993. With guitar/vocal
renditions of three new songs and a fourth that Geoff previously recorded as
part of the Secret Stars in 1996, ALREADY TOLD YOU continues in the
harmonically-dense, stream-of-consciousness vein of his 2000 Southern Records
release, REVERSE ECLIPSE. Like REVERSE ECLIPSE, ALREADY TOLD YOU sets images if
bitter New England winters and gray Atlantic tides to weaving melodies and Hoagy
Carmichael-era harmonies. Rhode Island's Quakers, incessant mosquitoes and
seaside burnouts are the target of "Molasses to Rum," a New Englander's wry take
on Carmichael's "Georgia on my Mind." The EP's title track is a kind of
meta-love song as Geoff informs his inamorata that he has finally exhausted his
catalogue and has nothing left to sing to her. "Femmes Damnees" evokes the
intimate bedroom-recordings of the Secret Stars with glimpses of bitter Boston
winters, and "Kin of Carbons" recounts a dream of flora reclaiming the
environment from the humans who squandered it. Together these songs offer
another glimpse through a frosted window of the imperfections of consummate love
and other existential ponderings that Geoff has been singing about for the past
15 years.