Green Gerry’s Odd Tymes, a self-released, GarageBand-recorded digi-LP he recently sent my way, locks in to the more introspective side of summer. “Cozy Space Mugz” sends me back to July in Western Massachusetts — biking alone to a watering hole of uncertain name, running brown water through my toes, and turning a single song over and over in my mind as though it held the keys to the cosmos. Like Simon Finn, Alexander “Skip” Spence, and Dear Syd himself, Green Gerry doesn’t need more than a guitar, some drowsy vocal leans, and his own warped sense of the world to make everything around you — rocks, trees, computer chairs, you name it — start vibrating with slanted and enchanted truth.

Green Gerry, “Cozy Space Mugz”

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