Search - Geggy Tah :: Into the Oh

Back in 1994, Geggy Tah took a moment on the second track of their debut album to thank us for driving kindly. Two years later in 1996, Pomona, California's weirdest and most melodic denizens were still thanking us, as the same sentiment (in fact, the same exact lyric) slipped into Sacred Cow's middleweight alternative radio hit "Whoever You Are." Fast-forward through a couple births, deaths, marriages, and divorces later to Geggy Tah circa 2001. The refrain that makes multiple appearances on Into the Oh is a bit more contemplative: "Love is deeper than loneliness / Love is nature at its best." That's good enough news, as long as you can find such a thing, and lead vocalist Tommy Jordan seems occasionally less optimistic than usual, as in "Special Someone": "I'm waiting for someone to manifest my many dreams / to make this bitter world a sweeter place / It kicks me in the face / Oh, I cannot face / dead dreams lying all over the place." One dream that's still thankfully alive is the band's sound, a funky mid-tempo pop that denies any absolute comparisons. One could call it swoopy, loopy R&B for the attention deficit disorder set. One could call it (and has called it) Prince-meets-Dr.-Seuss. Or, one could simply call it inventive and extremely well executed, which is really all that needs to be said. --Bob Michaels