The New Existentialists - EP Review: Last Days of the Internet
It might seem
like George D Henderson has been a part of the New Zealand music landscape for
about as long as Keith Richards has been playing guitar.
He’s been in the Flying Nun arena with The Puddle based in Dunedin. He relocated to Auckland several years ago, and resurfaced with The New Existentialists.
The group released the Last Days of the Internet EP in late October and the five-song effort is already garnering critical acclaim.
The EP opens up with the title track, and right from the opening you know it’s George D Henderson on fine form. He’s always been a good songwriter, and with lines like, “you have become an algorithm, a file too corrupted to download”, it is pure George. Overdriven guitars push along the song as the rhythm section sits on a bed of zeros and ones for George’s narrative to soar over.
The words of track two, I Don't Need The Light to See The Way reads as a man getting to terms with growing older particularly; “I don’t need the light to see the way. Already spoken to the dead and they’re okay. But I can’t stay”.
Musically George D Henderson stems from solid pop sensibilities of the late 1950's to the mid-1960's, seemingly drawing inspiration from the great writers and arrangers of that time. But rising to initial fame during the Flying Nun era in Dunedin, the southern jangle lives on with this stately Auckland resident.
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George, working on an album bro?
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