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Athens, GA singer/songwriter Green Gerry, who recently assembled a live group called Green Gerry and the Gellyfish, was one of the first artists I ever posted about in these pages. It seems like a hundred musical micro-trends have come and gone in the interim, but you can't really get any more timeless than pretty, minor-key vocals over pretty, minor-key fingerpicking-- and the sheer simplicity of these existential floaters always feels like coming home. Sure, there's an undercurrent of weirdness in the mix; Green Gerry made a video for his last single, "I Am Getting Old," with footage from a fascist military pageant, and there are some video game sound effects on "Pupil Patterns Are Crazy" that bear no apparent relation to the track, in rhythm or psychic tone. But a love for idiosyncrasy is what got us into this business in the first place, and we're stoked that Olde English Spelling Bee just announced a 7" with Gerry in the not-so-distant future. --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

MP3: Green Gerry: "Pupil Patterns Are Crazy "

More tracks available via Bandcamp. Green Gerry has a 7" coming out soon on OESB

Green Gerry’s Odd Tymes, a self-released, GarageBand-recorded digi-LP he recently sent my way, locks in to the more introspective side of summer. “Cozy Space Mugz” sends me back to July in Western Massachusetts — biking alone to a watering hole of uncertain name, running brown water through my toes, and turning a single song over and over in my mind as though it held the keys to the cosmos. Like Simon Finn, Alexander "Skip" Spence, and Dear Syd himself, Green Gerry doesn’t need more than a guitar, some drowsy vocal leans, and his own warped sense of the world to make everything around you — rocks, trees, computer chairs, you name it — start vibrating with slanted and enchanted truth.

MP3: Green Gerry: Cozy Space Mugz

Odd Tymes is available for download on Green Gerry’s bandcamp