
" Jordan Geiger comes packing a sturdy CV - singing and songwriting in Minus Story , playing trumpet and keyboard for Shearwater - and the Hospital Ships material shows it." – Stereogum ( LINK ) Set to perform with Shearwater and Black Moth Super Rainbow this fall is none other than Hospital Ships , the newly formed band by Jordan Geiger of Minus Story . His scattered east coast dates are to promote his debut Oh, Ramona [...]

Jordan Geiger, cantante degli ottimi Minus Story e trombettista e tastierista degli Shearwater , ha scelto il titolo di una canzone dei Flaming Lips per farsi conoscere come artista solista e ha affidato alla piccola label di Chicago Graveface il proprio esordio sulla lunga distanza, intitolato "Oh, Ramona". Mixato da John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, The Polyphonic Spree) "Oh, Ramona" è un album indie pop a bassa fedeltà che si fa amare sin dalla sua prima nota ed è un acquisto imprescindibile per chi annovera i Neutral Milk [...]

Hospital Ships Oh, Ramona (10.2008, Graveface Records) Verdict: Cute-tastic Hospital Ships is the "solo" project of little Jordan Geiger. You know little Jordan, he is the lead singer and keyboardist for that band that was really mediocre and then got really way awesome and then got mediocre again, Minus Story. Oh ya, he also is the victorious trumpeteer for that one band that has always sucked, what's their name, Shearwater. Anyways, you've probably seen little Jordan before. He is the one that is, you know, pretty little. He looks like he is constantly on [...]

minus story 's jordan geiger has an upcoming solo album called oh, ramona , recorded under his hospital ships moniker. that's a story of its own, taken from the opening song off the flaming lips' clouds taste metallic . "the abandoned hospital ship" opens as a familiarish wayne coyne ballad, but it doesn't really hit your future head until it reaches guitars and drums kick in, surrounded by wails, chimes and fuzz in whichever order you wish. that sets a proper context for looking at hospital ships' "the shot i drank", a song that also stands [...]