The Melbourne-based indie pop producer dazzles and delights on his fifth album.
“Regrets in bright lights and silhouettes”, letters to Geoffrey O’Connor’s younger self, BVs supplied by the one and only Margret RoadKnight – we recommend pairing your I Love What We Do listening sesh with a Cosmopolitan or vodka and lime.
A flurry of flutes and shimmering, fairyland-express harp usher in this record’s opening title track. Then cue woozy harmonies and upbeat melodies, which take delightfully unexpected detours. “Maybe I am a thing of the past/ If there was a moment, I didn’t make it last…” – lyrics are jauntily delivered; bitterness, begone!
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With its pulsating Love Is In The Air bassline, Let’s Make Love Feel Good Again luxuriates in “the dancefloor of my mind”. I Don’t Want To Be Loved makes us pine for the protagonist’s backstory.
The sauntering, self-preserving I’m So Lonely I Could Fall In Love embodies vulnerability and Thank God I’m Not Good’s humour is emphasized by triangle accents.
“Life it is good, not unbearable/ But I think of you all the time and it is terrible…” – Love Takes What It Takes ponders the price of acting on “big feelings”. (“I’m always…”) Late To Love acknowledges a pattern, with breezy instrumentation suggesting a playful facepalm is more fitting than an admonishment here.
Atmospheric rainfall – which O’Connor recorded during lockdown – underscores this eclectic collection, which closes out with It’s Nice To Think. Featuring singing saw, this Sarah Mary Chadwick duet brings reflective acquiescence: “It’s nice to be old/ Making love like a dinosaur/ Feeling less, and more…”
LABEL: DINOSAUR RECORDS
RELEASE: OUT NOW
