Geographer

Part social scientist, part troubadour, if Geographer is an expert at anything, it’s precisely chronicling life’s imperfections. Over a decade, Geographer frontman Mike Deni released three full-length albums that levitated through the unbearable lightness of being. The Animal Shapes EP put Geographer on the map and launched his career. Since then, he has played Outside Lands, Firefly, and more and performed with such musical luminaries as The Flaming Lips, Young The Giant, Tycho, Ratatat, Betty Who, and Tokyo Police Club. His latest LP, Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights (out November 12, 2021), however, brings Geographer back down to terra firma, confronting the all-too-human realities around us.

The gravitation back to Earth started when he moved from SF to LA in Summer 2018. “I hit a ceiling in San Francisco. Everything feels possible here. That’s the vibe of LA: You’ve made it to paradise. You should be really happy…and then nobody is. There’s a lot of darkness — you have to sift through everything to find your own path.” says Deni. While recording his album, engineer Jules de Gasperis showed him an image of the famed, 15th-century triptych painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” depicting alternate realities of paradise, hell, and reality. “It’s like, why are we all so bummed out? We are all miserable. And we’re in paradise.” And thus, Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights — recorded between Spring and Winter of 2019 — was born.

Past Shows


Mar
27
th
2022
7th St Entry
Mar
27
th
2022
7th St Entry

Geographer

with Chong The Nomad
May
11
th
2020
Turf Club
May
11
th
2020
Turf Club
Cancelled

Geographer

The Down & The Out Tour
Apr
11
th
2018
Turf Club
Apr
11
th
2018
Turf Club

Geographer

with joan
Apr
8
th
2016
Triple Rock Social Club
Apr
8
th
2016
Triple Rock Social Club

Geographer

with The Crookes
May
11
th
2015
7th St Entry
May
11
th
2015
7th St Entry

Geographer

with Idlehands
Jun
28
th
2014
7th St Entry
Jun
28
th
2014
7th St Entry

Painted Palms and Geographer

with Tickle Torture
Aug
14
th
2013
7th St Entry
Aug
14
th
2013
7th St Entry

Geographer

with GRMLN
Oct
5
th
2012
7th St Entry
Oct
5
th
2012
7th St Entry

Freelance whales

with Geographer

More Shows

May
7
th
Palace Theatre

Amyl and The Sniffers

with Sheer Mag
Mar
23
rd
First Avenue

Tobe Nwigwe

Apr
12
th
Turf Club

Visions of Atlantis

Nov
23
rd
7th St Entry

porch light

with Callback, Squirm and Emily Rhea