Buzz on November 12th, 2010

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The fact that Geographer frontman Michael Deni upped sticks from his native New Jersey and relocated to San Francisco is not remarkable in itself. Some of the music the young songwriter has crafted since swapping coasts following a tragic series of deaths in his family just might be. Deni, having enlisted the help of cellist Nathan Blaz (who has also played with Brooklyn indie songstress St. Vincent) and drummer Brian Ostreicher, has channeled those traumatic experiences into a collection of poignant, emotionally-charged indie-pop songs that are finding a growing audience well beyond the Bay Area. On latest EP “Animal Shapes” (Tricycle Records) the trio marries rippling synths and haunting cello over processed dance beats to back Deni’s fragile, plaintive vocal.

||| Download: ‘Kites’

||| Live: Geographer performs tonight at the Wiltern and Sunday at the Glass House.

– By David McKay