M. Geddes Gengras recruits sprawling cast for new album Guest List

The album is Gengras' fourth overall outing on the Hausu Mountain label and the first to be released on vinyl. Its lead single, “The List Is Millions Long” - another relevant title - is out today. Clocking in at eleven minutes, the track features drummer Colin Blanton (aka Rikki G. Godd), guitarists Tristan Dahn and Cyrus Gengras, and saxophonist Will Epstein.

The result of working with a laundry list of brilliant collaborators is what Gengras calls “the most ambitious and omnidirectional song cycle” he has captured on one record, weaving his own electronics into dense tapestries of contrasting genres.

The LP also features liner notes from James Toth (Wooden Wand), who writes: “In Gengras’ hands, the infinite-limbed drum performances of Greg Fox, the ecstatic guitar explorations of Ben Chasny, the soaring vocalizations of Christina Carter, and the contributions of many more artists become individual brushstrokes to paint across the canvases of his dense mixes.”

Toth adds: “The thread that runs throughout Guest List is a decidedly modern take on a specific period of post rock… a time when artists were just beginning to explore the commonalities between indie rock and the nascent sound of IDM.”

Gengras, known for his work with Sun Araw, Pocahaunted, Robedoor and Akron/Family, as well as the Duppy Gun Productions dub collective, has previously released solo records on Room40, Leaving Records, and Umor Rex. His Hausu Mountain output spans the ambient networks of I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World (2019) to the technoid experiments of Time Makes Nothing Happen (2020) and the harmonic architectures of Expressed, I Noticed Silence (2022).

Guest List artwork

Guest List tracklist

“The List Is Millions Long”
“All the Light”
“Laplace/Montagne”
“Seven Dials”
“Soup”
“The Weather”