Stream: Geowulf, ‘My Resignation’

Kevin Bronson on November 13th, 2019

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Geowulf are the duo of Star Kendrick and Toma Banjanin, who originally hail from Australia’s Sunshine Coast but have made their home base in London, Berlin and Gothenburg, Sweden, the past few years. They first gained notice for their 2016 single “Saltwater,” owing to its presence in a beer commercial, and built on the momentum with their 2018 full-length, “Great Big Blue.”

The duo are growing up — and writing songs about it — on their new album “My Resignation,” a collection of lush confessionals that end up reading like mission statements. Kendrick’s airy vocals belie only scant traces of melancholy on “Lonely,” a song about being strong enough to feel comfortable in the company of oneself, and the acid-tongued “He’s 31” finger-wags at bad behavior and an “existential crisis” that tries to excuse it.

With its chorus “I’m empty, baby, of you” and a sweetly cooed profanity, the title track is about purging the past. “‘My Resignation’ inspired the name and theme of the album,” Kendrick says. “It summed up a lot of the years before — resigning from old habits and relationships. Creating space for new things and learning to let go.”

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