Description:
Lisa Germano – Geek the Girl (30th Anniversary Special Edition) (2025)
Review:
With 1994's Geek the Girl, Lisa Germano found the perfect balance of her work's inherent contrasts. On songs like "My Secret Reason," soft, intricate arrangements surround her raw, whispery vocals and unflinching lyrics, making it even easier for them to get unsettlingly close to you. A largely autobiographical album about a girl's emotional and sexual coming of age, each of Geek the Girl's songs -- particularly the title track -- fairly tremble with awkward sadness and self-discovery. Shimmering, hesitant songs like "Trouble" sound like they might float off the album, but Germano's delivery of lyrics like "Little by little you touched my heart/ Where they had touched it too" gives them a delicate determination. Geek the Girl also braves the uglier possibilities of adolescent girlhood, whether it's rape ("Cry Wolf" ) or growing up too fast ("Sexy Little Girl Princess" ). The album's centerpiece, "... A Psychopath," inspired by Germano's own experiences with a stalker, mixes excerpts of a 911 caller confronting an intruder, Germano's deadpan delivery of lyrics like "A baseball bat beside my bed/You win again/I am alone /And paralyzed" and brooding, scraping violins. Geek the Girl never feels whiny, thanks to Germano's abstract lyrics and the album's clever structure: snippets of whimsical Italian folk tunes bookend Geek the Girl's darkest, most intense moments, offering a tiny bit of comic relief. Similarly, "Cancer of Everything," a harshly funny cry for attention, borrows Happiness's ironic humor. Hypnotic instrumentals like "Phantom Love" and "Just Geek" also provide respites from the album's wrenching emotions, but songs like "...Of Love and Colors" and "Stars" end the album with something more important: hope. Geek the Girl's brave whispers hit on more emotional truths than the self-important screams of Germano's mid-'90s, women-in-rock contemporaries. — AMG
Track List:
Disc 1
01 - My Secret Reason (2025 Remaster)
02 - Trouble (2025 Remaster)
03 - Geek The Girl (2025 Remaster)
04 - Just Geek (2025 Remaster)
05 - Cry Wolf (2025 Remaster)
06 - ...A Psychopath (2025 Remaster)
07 - Sexy Little Girl Princess (2025 Remaster)
08 - Phantom Love (2025 Remaster)
09 - Cancer Of Everything (2025 Remaster)
10 - A Guy Like You (2025 Remaster)
11 - ...Of Love And Colours (2025 Remaster)
12 - Stars (2025 Remaster)
13 - The Mirror Is Gone (2025 Remaster)
Disc 2
01 - Happiness (2025 Remaster)
02 - Energy (2025 Remaster)
03 - Puppet (2025 Remaster)
04 - Sycophant (2025 Remaster)
05 - (Late Night) Dresses (2025 Remaster)
Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, indie-folk
Origin: Mishawaka, Indiana, USA 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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