View basket “Styles We Paid For” has been added to your basket. The New Sound Geordie Greep SKU: 25.00 25.00 £25.00 £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rough Trade Released Date: 4th October 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Indies Only Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Indies OnlyClear The New Sound quantity Add to basket ReservePre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “The main theme of the record is desperation; you don’t hear an unreliable narrator but someone who is kidding themselves that they have everything under control, but they don’t.” Geordie Greep Geordie Greep (guitarist and vocalist in black midi) today announces his debut solo album ‘The New Sound’ and shares its first single ‘Holy, Holy’. Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023’s ‘Hellfire’, and almost non-stop worldwide tours for near-on five years, Geordie Greep has somehow found time to record his first solo album ‘The New Sound’, an album that has allowed him scope to explore creative ideas like never before. It boasts a brand of high quality, all-embracing alternative pop fun not heard in a very long time. Geordie Greep; “With recording ‘The New Sound’, it was the first time I have had no one to answer to. And with every impulse I had, I was able to completely follow it through to its conclusion. Being in a band (black midi), we often have this ‘we can do everything’ feeling, but you are also kind of limited in that approach, and sometimes it’s good to do something else, to let go of things.” Over thirty session musicians were involved in the making of the album, on two continents, in São Paulo and London. Geordie Greep; “Some of the tracks we had recorded already, elsewhere, but it just wasn’t right, so we re-recorded them with new people. Half of the tracks were done in Brazil, with local musicians pulled together at the last minute. They’d never heard anything I’d done before, they were just interested in the demos I’d made. The tracking was all done in one, maybe two days. Then we did the overdubs later, in London.” Geordie Greep has had plenty of practice with black midi over the years in performing musical and lyrical Cruyff turns, full of stop-starts, blasts and bangs and whispered soliloquies. Here the method is employed to ask: what part of the narrative should we listeners believe, or take as our emotional crutch? The mercurial, insouciant tone set in ‘Terra’, or the gruesome imagery it is juxtaposed with? After all, Greep tells us, this is the story of “the museum of human suffering.” Consider, too, the strange emotional undulations created in ‘Through a War’, where the music makes a very polished stab at aping a soul revue; or a salsa class. It’s there to give colour to a set of imaginings which include cannibalism, being boiled alive, and a woman giving birth to a goat. You’re never quite sure when, or whether, you are supposed to be shocked; or laugh. Even if, as with the latter, Geordie Greep gives us the punchline; “And that’s how I spent my adolescence.” Street life is all around: the listener is thrown into a world of cafes, bars and clubs, visit theatres, cabarets and strange museums, or rented rooms. Here we see our heroes carry out a series of naughty assignations, military cosplay or socio-economic triumphs. Greep; “I was often thinking of walking through a city, and thinking about a million dollars, showing that kind of feeling, you know?” Taking on The New Sound in its entirety can feel like you are trying to cross Piccadilly Circus after a skinful. Single ‘Holy Holy’ is possibly the best example: has urbane romantic fantasy ever sounded this way? Probably not since Noël Coward. This story of an imaginary liaison in a nightclub is soundtracked by ’noughties indie pop chords and bravura Latin big band arrangements – including a three-piano attack (Steinway, Bechstein, electric). ‘Motorbike’ sees a change in vocal duties: as bassist and album producer Seth ‘Shank’ Evans starts up a doleful soliloquy about not getting what he wants. It’s certainly an album that fully engages the listener, throughout the eleven tracks. Greep; “I was worried about the length in terms of not overblowing it. But I’m also really bloody bored of listening to music and, for better or worse, knowing in advance what it means or what it’s trying to do. All my favourite music is about the listener coming to terms with what is going on. My favourite singers, like Peter Hammill or Nat King Cole, are literally one of a kind. I love that. Especially with lyrics, where you’re not sure what they’re going on about, but you know it’s not just abstract thoughts.” What next? Could we see The New Sound as a live concept or is the album going to stay forever in our collective imagination? Greep; “My plan is to ‘do a Keith Jarrett thing’, have a different group of session musicians in a different place and lean into the fact that we’re not going to get it the same.” How can anything ever be ‘the same’ with Greep at the helm? Artist Geordie Greep Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Rough Trade Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Indies Only Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Blues Terra Holy, Holy The New Sound Walk Up Through A War Bongo Season Motorbike As If Waltz The Magician If You Are But A Dream Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Corridor Mimi Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th April 2024 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Corridor Mimi £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1587X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bush Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023 Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | UMR | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th November 2023 £39.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bush Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023 £39.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: UMR SKU: 5859796 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Merchandise A Corpse Wired For Sound Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | 4AD | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 23rd September 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Merchandise A Corpse Wired For Sound £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: 4AD SKU: CAD3660 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fugazi Repeater Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Dischord | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 4th August 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fugazi Repeater £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Dischord SKU: DIS44 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pere Ubu 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Cherry Red | 1LP Released 29th September 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pere Ubu 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Cherry Red SKU: BRED708 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View D Generation Nothing Is Anywhere Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Megaforce | 1LP Released 29th July 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders D Generation Nothing Is Anywhere £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Megaforce SKU: BB01LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Superchunk What a Time to Be Alive (Indies Only) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th February 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Superchunk What a Time to Be Alive (Indies Only) £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG620LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Standards Fruit Island Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Topshelf | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th March 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Standards Fruit Island £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Topshelf SKU: LPTSR218CV Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Folly Group Human and Kind Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Technicolour | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 25th March 2022 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Folly Group Human and Kind £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Technicolour SKU: TCLR045 Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Speed Stick Volume One Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th January 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Speed Stick Volume One £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG213LE Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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