Emma Geiger - “All Your Words”
Photo by Archer Boyette
Durham, NC-based artist Emma Geiger arrives on our blog with her heart-wrenching new single, “All Your Words,” a tune that explores “the inescapable tension before the breaking point of a relationship, and the transformation that follows.” It should come as no surprise that this subject matter is right within our wheelhouse.
This journey begins with some acoustic guitar, quietly strummed as it sets a profoundly melancholic mood for the song’s duration. Some deep tones from a bass soon arrive, followed by the gentle rhythm from a drum kit. Each element sounds as though it has been organically performed and captured on analog gear, a sound that will instantly capture us as fans.
Geiger’s resplendent voice bears all of the finer qualities that we’ve come to enjoy from the folk genre, including its ability to be completely believable. It will enter your ears free of any digital manipulation and settle right within your heart, soothing any potential wounds that have been left by former lovers. As she runs through a myriad of emotions, she is bound to win you over with lines like: “I woke with teeth marks on my mind.”
Although the track is dark and somber, it still possesses the ability to fill the listener with warm nostalgia. Within it, one shall find a single, gloriously harrowing chorus, along with a flavorful string arrangement provided by Emma Kelly (Maple Glider). Highlights for us, of course, are the moments where the vocals are layered with tremendous harmonies.
“All Your Words” is the kind of song that you hear and want to keep all to yourself, locked inside of a magic box that you turn to at the demise of any relationship. However, we would not be doing our job if we did not encourage everyone to give it a spin, which is what you should be doing right now, instead of reading these words.
About the track, Geiger adds: “This song feels like a time capsule of my mental landscape from the time that I wrote it. It is about dissonance, distance, and wondering what shape resolution could take. It is less of a representation of how I feel today, but in certain moments I can still relate to the confusion I was overwhelmed with at the time.”
-HD