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Pictured: Hospital Ships’ Jordan Geiger with big-head cheat code on.

Songwriter Jordan Geiger is (un)known for his writing and singing in Minus Story, and recently for his trumpeting in the band Shearwater. With his new project, Hospital Ships, Geiger steps into his own even more.

The creativity that flows through Oh, Ramona is similar to that heard from Islands. The layers and layers of nasally vocals are nearly the same at times, and songs use heaps of keyboards and organs on top of less dense guitars. Where Islands has a flare for the silly and overly dramatic, Hospital Ships manages to stay a bit more low key and straightforward, making them slightly less difficult to relate to at times. That’s not to say that songs like Bitter Radio Single and I Want It to Get Out are anti-climatic though, as most of the album works by building up to giant choruses of overlapping parts and colorfully laid vocals.

Hospital Ships - Bitter Radio Single

Geiger hits it perfectly on Bitter Radio Single. “Screw this fucking city,” in the bridge explodes into the song’s ending.