by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Brooklyn’s Stimmerman make music on their own wave length and it’s time for everyone else to catch up. Eva Lawitts’ band colors way outside the lines and it’s all the better for it, swerving between deranged art rock, grungier tones, and a kitchen sink of noise ridden indie weirdness. It was on full display with Goofballs, a full length released back in 2019 and Lawitts’ and company’s sound continues to embrace unpredictability with their latest single, “Geek,” released ahead of their next record.
It’s hard to create something that can be considered “epic” in just over a minute’s length, but here we are. Stimmerman’s latest is bit sized grandiosity. With discordant stabs of guitars and melodically mumbled vocals we’re brought into “Geek” and just as quickly brought to the next micro movement synths burst with carnival flair, the melodies sharpen and every piece of the instrumental swings for the fences. It’s brief but vivid and you’re going to want to hit repeat.
Speaking about the song, Lawitts shared:
"‘Geek’ is a song made over several frenzied periods. This song was originally written as part of an exercise I was doing late 2019 where I would write a full song every morning in 15 minutes or less- it’s structurally and lyrically unchanged from that original version!
In summer 2020, I decided to make an album in a little under 36 hours (from start to finish!) that included some collaborators contributing remotely (as was the style in 2020) with the proceeds from the album going to Flatbush Mutual Aid. I sent stems of my own demo wherein I played guitar and sang, as well as the midi for the synth parts to Mike Haldeman, Gannon Farrell and Zane West, who each contributed something special. Zane delivered the perfect drum part (complete with press roll!), Gannon shredded the guitar at the very end of the song, and Mike delivered guitar parts as well as some pitched-down pseudo-bass and the very distinctive noisy rumble and handclaps that really make me feel like the song lives in a holy trash can.
Later on, once that album was taken down, I had my longtime friend and collaborator Chris Krasnow re-mix and master the song, and my friend and perfect bandmate Adam O’Farrill introduced me to Elenor Kopka, who animated and directed the video. I had seen some work that Elenor had done for Adam, and we both work in the wild world of video games, so I thought it would be a great match- and it was! Elenor really seized the project and did something I could have never imagined on my own- the video speaks for itself!"