Storms Dressed as Stars

by Gersey

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Adam D In love with this album for 20ish years. Has it really been that long?

I still stop in my tracks when I hear lyrics like “explosions of joy in the sky” and “the piercing alarms, the storms dressed as stars, an oceans remorse, washed to the shore.”

I mean, FUCK. Who’s doing that these days?

Favorite track: The Trouble With Jonah.

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1.	Wait Here 03:34	buy track
2.	The Night We Walked to Mexico 06:11	buy track
3.	Baby, You're a Strange Girl 05:56	buy track
4.	Crashing 05:08	buy track
5.	The Trouble With Jonah 03:25	buy track
6.	For Whom Do You Sail? 02:52	buy track
7.	Look to the Sun 03:58	buy track
8.	La Zona Rosa 03:33	buy track
9.	Goodbye, Columbus 02:22	buy track
10.	The Last Tango 03:11	buy track
11.	A Day to be Certain 06:24	buy track

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Poignant, powerful and persuasive Gersey's Storms Dressed As Stars
rolls out of the speakers like great grey waves rolling onto a winter
shore.

Elegantly simple economic music that builds out of deceptive intervals into towering structures that evolve and revolve, intensifying like rain which falls in an increasing downpour.

Effortlessly straddling hammering shoegazery workouts where the twin guitars crash and arppegiate with/against each other relentlessly and intimate delicate pieces with the guitars gently locked together like some small chiming machine, Gersey's music is universal yet unique.

Crashing, which is one of the most desolately beautiful songs you will ever hear is typical Gersey. Beginning with a faint electronic whirr, the guitars come in twinkling and modulating and the amazing opening lines

If I stepped into the light
left my reflection
standing in doorways
and not look behind

the song grows imperceptibly, wringing every last implication out of its chords and its paradoxical lyrics are at once hopeful and elegiac, both personal and vaguely hugely universal. Beware, these songs are slippery, like dreams, each bit makes sense but when taken as a whole they remain engagingly nebulous.

You will never really pin these songs down. Without ever trying to be "mysterious" this music with its repetitions which blur and softly distort, the detached vague lyrics and voice which seamlessly becomes another element, is.

And that's the great thing about Gersey and Storms. No one thing dominates. There are no guitar solos as such and when outside elements like the female voice and strings appear, they are subtle.

Romantic music, ebbing and flowing. This record is a world to enter: long grey afternoons, loneliness and love, the grandeur and decay of time, hotels by the sea, crowded trams and empty rooms.

After listening to this record a hundred times, I am yet to penetrate its foggy veneer and nail its secrets down in broad daylight. And that's what makes me want to hear it again and again. You keep coming back to it like a delicious memory you can never quite frame.

Nice work!

Steve Kilbey
Sydney, July 2005

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released September 1, 2002

Recorded and Mixed by Tim Whitten at Megaphon Studios, Sydney

Mastered by Don Bartly at 301, Sydney

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Gersey Melbourne, Australia

"You will never really pin these songs down. Without ever trying to be "mysterious" this music with its repetitions which blur and softly distort, the detached vague lyrics and voice which seamlessly becomes another element, is".

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