“There’s a certain kind of record that doesn’t separate music from the moment it’s made in. A Call to Federation, the recent album by Our Geology Club, leans directly into that idea, treating song writing as a way to respond to social tension rather than avoid it. Political records aren’t rare, but I tend to respect the ones that actually try to engage instead of just gesture, and this one makes a clear attempt to grapple with something larger than itself.”
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“There’s something quietly radical about A Call to Federation, the debut album from Our Geology Club, a project rooted in decades of lived experience, activism, and an unshaken belief that, even in bleak times, solidarity still matters. Released on the International Day of Happiness, the timing feels almost ironic. When the world feels like it’s coming apart at the seams, this record leans into the idea that hope itself can be an act of resistance.”
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"There’s a fire burning at the heart of ‘A Call to Federation’ that gathers force with every track. This new release is a body of work that refuses to sit still in the face of a fractured world, choosing instead to confront, connect, and ignite.
From the outset, there’s a sense that these songs are rooted in something bigger than music alone. Gav and Jon operate like conduits, pulling threads from history, activism, and lived experience, and weaving them into something urgent. The result is a record that feels alive with purpose, with each track another voice joining the chorus.
There’s a rawness to the songwriting that gives the album its power, as it leans directly into the realities it’s shaped by. Moments of grief sit alongside flashes of defiance, and throughout it all runs a persistent belief that true, collective connection still matters."
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"One must accept to enter this album as one would enter a place inhabited by invisible presences. Not ghosts in the spectacular sense, but traces, ancient gestures, voices that continue to resonate in the interstices of the present. “A Call to Federation” does not seek to impose a discourse, it infiltrates. It moves at human height, almost timidly, and it is precisely this restraint that makes it political.
“Staircase Requiem” opens the record like a slow, almost funeral march, but without heaviness. One can already feel that very particular way of making memory exist without freezing it. The guitar seems recorded in a space too small for it, creating a disturbing intimacy, as if the track were being played in the next room. Then “Blowing Ochre” acts like a discreet manifesto. The image of these prehistoric hands projected on the walls becomes here a metaphor for songwriting itself, a simple but fundamental gesture, leaving a trace."
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"If music can be seen as geological layering, with pressure transforming emotion into sediment and history into stone, then Our Geology Club feels like a band that has learnt to listen to the earth rather than just playing it. Their debut collection, “A Call to Federation,” serves as an archive of marks, where each song represents remains left by activists, artists, writers, and many unnamed voices that still speak through fractured landscapes.
At the heart of this project are Gav and Jon, whose creative partnership dates back to the 1990s in the band Makhno. After reigniting their songwriting in 2022, they return not with nostalgia but with urgency. The record feels less like a reunion and more like a continuation of unfinished dialogues with history itself. There is also a philosophical thread running through the album, referencing Edwyn Collins and his claim that there are “too many protest singers, not enough protest songs.” “A Call to Federation” seems to reply directly to that gap. Let’s look into it."
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"Our Geology Club arrive with their new album, A Call to Federation, bringing what they do best: a visceral blend of pop rock, inde and melancholic folk atmospheres that reflect their underground independent journey.
The 12 track record dives into poetry and emotionally intense music, designed for attentive listening rather than background play, drawing on personal experiences to create a deeply resonant collection of songs."
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