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The great-nephew of seven organ-playing sisters, Geoff Smith has inherited a gift for playing keyboards and developed his gift into music that transports and transcends the every day; a gift that embraces memorable, shivery melody that lace both glinting dance/pop songs and haunted ballads; a gift that has bewitched not only his great-aunts but also Bomb The Bass, Dot Allison, Sinead O?Connor, American TV soundtrack experts and music fans who claim his gift has helped save their sanity / souls / lives (delete where applicable).
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“The first album was me saying ‘I feel like this’ – I?d had this shit relationship, my publishing deal was coming to an end and I was at that age when it all does feel like the end of the world. But you grow up! Western Sci-Fi is less introverted and myopic. It’s trying to find something slightly magical about saying the same things that everyone else says every day, and then trying to represent that in the music. Loner’s music has connected to people across the spectrum.
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With fingers in various studio pies, it doesn’t leave much time for live work, but Geoff – as Loner – is considering his options. So in the forthcoming months, you might catch him sitting down at the keyboard, triggering samples, with a guitarist for company, but concentrating solely on those yearning ballads. Or there might be nights of just his uptempo songs, so everyone can dance. Or perhaps there will be a fusion of the two, like on the album. That’s three potential Loners for the price of one. It’s a paradox but it works.

In any case, music is created to communicate, and Loner is no exception. Come join him.
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