Altered Zones

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