Growing up on a cattle station in the tiny Central Queensland town of Mount Larcom, Mack Geiger’s love of music was informed by his father’s record collection, which was dominated by ’90s country artists like Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, and Travis Tritt. Those influences loom large over his debut EP, a release steeped in classic blue-collar country traditions, blazing fiddle, and mournful pedal steel, yet delivered with a contemporary production that lands it very much in the 21st century. Blessed with a lyrical wit, a knack for storytelling, and a voice dripping in no-frills authenticity, Geiger turns heartbreak into a rollicking barroom anthem in “About Time” (“It’s about time I sang a heartbreak song/I’ve felt too damn good for too damn long”). “Campdraft Queen” playfully draws on his early days working on cattle farms, a “rough and rowdy station hand” doing his best to impress a woman (the “campdraft queen”). “String By,” meanwhile, is a vulnerable, bottom-of-the-whiskey-bottle song about leaving a manipulative ex.