Starover Blue‘s Spacegeist is a cold album. This is a sentiment the band seems to be going for, hence the black-and-blue cover art and the “space” in the album’s name. The chilliness holds over to the music as well, though — the guitars are crystalline and static and the synthesizers are robotic, swiveling between hypnotic organ and futuristic drones. Beat the summer heat by putting on this album — the temperature’s guaranteed to drop ten degrees while it’s pulsing from your speakers.
The brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Kendall Sallay and keyboardist/guitarist Dirk Milotz, it began as a sci-fi concept (“The Labyrinth Suite EP, 2013), then bled forth into a single (“Spacegeist,” 2015); and now comes to fruition in the “Spacegeist” record, the band’s first full-length release.
“Spacegeist is definitely a product of having lived in Silicon Valley for eight years,” says Starover Blue. “It’s a dream pop concept album with lots of sci-fi imagery, harmonies, and nostalgic analog synth parts, and it looks at how different people and landscapes are affected by dependence on technology.”