Indie-pop luminary Geographer (the solo project for Mike Deni) delivers a fever dream song on "The Burning Handle" with a simple message: nightmares are dreams too. Mike expands, “Everyone talks about their dreams coming true, but they so rarely do, and that’s when I like to remind them that hey, nightmares are dreams too. The song explores how dreams get crystallized in the first place, and the often catastrophic phase change that occurs when they come in contact with real life. I wrote the chorus in NJ on the piano I grew up playing in my mother’s living room. I had watched La La Land on the plane ride over and it decimated me, I wept openly next to a 5 year old.” The driving piano & gritty electric guitar lends a nice landscape to the subconscious train of thought that builds throughout the song, as the vocals soar on multiple octaves. Central to the Geographer sound is Mike’s clear and compelling voice, which EARMILK describes as “synonymous with the word angelic” and is reminiscent of contemporaries such as Electric Guest, St. Lucia, & Local Natives.