Brock Geiger - “Some Nights”
Photo by Jen Schier
Brock Geiger from Canada has just released his debut album, Some Nights, so we decided to take a look at the lush, disco infused title track from this new record.
“Some Nights” bottles that feeling of dancing whilst half drunk at 2am. Getting lost in the flashing lights and the pulsing, hypnotic groove that is emanating from the corners of the dance floor. Built around a slick metronomic beat, Brock Geiger allows layers to morph and weave over the top as if he has hijacked the exquisite musical pallets of David Holmes crossed with the Berlin era of Bowie. Nostalgic, angular, shimmering the track is nothing short of a danceable, mind melting odyssey.
Brock Geiger delivers a sublimely detached yet oddly intimate vocal that beautifully enhances this slow burning banger. Laced with great uses of effects the performance is the sound of a half-forgotten dream or maybe a man finding himself lost in a different decade.
On the track Brock Geiger adds: “Some Nights was born from a synth-based instrumental I created while working on an electronic record with my duo, Étamine. It lived as a castaway for a while—until I reapproached it and started building a full-band performance around the sequenced groove. While we were tracking at Sound City, we kept the opening scene from PTA’s Boogie Nights running on repeat. That motion, the sleaze of Luis Guzman weaving through the club—it was the perfect visual reference for the energy we wanted to capture in this song.”