Following his acclaimed 2024 album, In The Time of Locusts (4 stars, The Irish
Times), Antebellum is an intimate six-track EP bound with tender acoustic
instrumentation and the familiar warmth of Geary’s sincere vocals and reflective
lyricism.
Recalling, vulnerability and enduring hope, the EP reflects Geary’s creative
response to one of Ireland’s stormiest New Year’s on record. He says, “I stared out
to a January of rain and cold and thought, ‘I need to get back to my desk’. If I
stayed watching the news, or in a cycle of streaming shows, I’d crumble. I threw
out my telly and set up a writing room by my bed. Tuned all my guitars and would
jump out of bed and sing. These songs are what came of it: Fear, regret, love,
romance, terror, and the weather forecast.”
Navigating moments of reposeful contemplation to passages of trepidation, Geary
reflects on the human condition within a more concentrated run time, where each
track emerges as a resonant meditation on fear, love, regret, and hope.
With six studio albums, three live albums and what will be his second ever EP
release with Antebellum, writing, touring and live performance remain Geary' s
lifeblood. Treating Antebellum with trademark Geary honesty, his lyrics slice right
through to the core, revealing a life laid bare of human emotional frailty, failed
relationships, tenderness, hurt, making amends, desire and parting. His treasured
guitar collection is always close at hand, each set up in a different tuning and
ready to capture any emotion