Released: 2021

Genres: Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock

The Musiquarium’s Projector Review Score: 7 out of 10

Following 2018’s A Beautiful Memory, which has basically been scrubbed from existence (the band member’s were around 16 at the time of its release and obviously don’t look back on it fondly), Projector finds the young Brooklyn-based rock band making Gen Z post-punk music, even if they might wear their influences on their sleeves and feel fairly derivative.

Rain Dance is a high energy opener that brings the post-punk energy of fellow New York City bands like The Strokes, Television and Interpol. Low Era sees the band go a dance rock route à la LCD Soundsystem (yet another N.Y.C. stalwart). Songs like Fantasies / Survival, Disco and the title track are all decent post-punk tracks, displaying the band’s penchant for Television-like guitar interplay. Bottle sounds a little Pixiesque.

Projector may adhere closely to its N.Y.C. post-punk roots, but Geese still adds their own unique elements wherever they can to this formula and they have impressive chemistry, with Cameron Winter’s voice being quite malleable and his lyricism being relatable. This group of friends was barely in their 20s when this dropped and though it’s no Is This It, Turn on the Bright Lights or Marquee Moon, it’s still an impressive album and shows that rock n roll still has a place in the 2020s.

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Written by Brett Nippard