Good God, by Cyrus Gengras

Good God

by Cyrus Gengras

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1.	Rain 01:39	buy track
2.	1970 Something 03:36	buy track
3.	Deal 03:10	buy track
4.	If I Could 03:16	buy track
5.	Somebody's Calling 03:56	buy track
6.	Porto 02:24	buy track
7.	Tonight 02:20	buy track
8.	Theft 02:47	buy track
9.	Good God 03:14	buy track
10.	Leatherman 04:09	buy track
11.	Give Me a Pass 02:27	buy track
12.	End 01:44	buy track

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“Good God” can be said as a curse of frustration, an exasperated shock or as a meditation of acceptance. And like its title, the album itself avoids easy categorization. It’s not wrapped in a neat bow; to be filed under “breakup album” or “album about touring”.

Instead, it mirrors a collection of short stories; windows into other lives that illuminate oneself in the reflection of the glass.

Gengras fills the songs with the characters he’s encountered through his life and what he’s learned from all of them. From the haunting words of the fellow addicts he met on his arduous path to sobriety (“1970 Something”, “Deal”) to a nuanced portrait of his beloved but troubled father, who passed away in 2016 (“Leatherman”) to an elegy for David Berman (“Somebody’s Calling”), who Gengras got to know in the final days of the poet’s life, Good God finds Gengras as a reporter, writing on the joy and wreckage of a life spent seeking out fellow outsiders, then sending his dispatches into the ether for all who might relate or benefit.

In the end, he grows closer to knowing himself, finding peace among the tortured people he’s been lucky enough to know and love, despite the pain that love may have wrought.

And the result is Good God: the most realized statement yet from a true lifer, forever on the path of pursuing his visions and chronicling the human experience.

-Justin Sullivan

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released December 2, 2022

Written, recorded and performed by Cyrus Gengras at Waste Management HQ in Los Angeles during the Spring of 2020
Jimi Hey plays drums on "Deal", "Somebody's Calling", "Tonight", and "Theft"
Max Bauhof plays drums on "If I Could" and "Leatherman"
Drums recorded by Jimmy Dixon at Kingsize in January 2021
Mixed by Jimmy Dixon
Mastered by M. Geddes Gengras
Cover photos taken by Kevin Morby and Jesse Michaels
Layout by Colin Brin

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