It has been a while, maybe four years since Edinburgh’s Young Fathers released anything – pre pandemic and then some…
BM has not read any media accounts (and maybe there aren’t any out there) about the gestation of this track, and by the rumours, some live dates later in the year and a possible album, so let us just listen to the music.
The track starts off slow, but imperial, minimalist but self-confident, just some beats and vocals over a keyboard backing… Then the chorus comes up, a soulful salute to “survive” and “provide” – a pretty universal message, with welling backing vocals, both male and female – who is the titular Geronimo, well it could be any one of us, and as the percussion gets started and the singing becomes more urgent, BM just thinks it is so good to have this outfit back in our musical universe – this could be the start of something very special indeed!