Listen To Geordie Greep's Debut Solo Album 'The New Sound'

One of the more mutated manifestations of London's avant-rock / jazz underground, black midi caused much astonishment amongst fans when they suddenly pulled the plug two months ago. Citing the demands of solo projects at the time, frontman Geordie Greep now slams his debut album The New Sound on our desk with fervency of a musical manifesto. The energy is high, the compositions are tangly and the lyrical storytelling vivid, delivered with gusto, venom, and precision — like some kind of cross between a torch-singing David Thomas of Pere Ubu, Dante's Disneyland Inferno-era Sun City Girls, and a more demonic Donald Fagen.

Recorded between São Paulo and London with contributions from more than thirty session musicians, Geordie Greep sometimes sounds akin to a ringmaster at a bacchanalian carnival, at other moments a late night crooner at your best local dive bar backed by red hot band. Adorned with eye-catching, lurid violent imagery by Japanese erotic artist Toshio Saeki, The New Sound features lead singles 'Holy, Holy' and 'Blues' with nine new works to sink your fangs into. No doubt smashing in the live realm too, enter the ever-questing artist's universe of sound...

"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."

'The New Sound' is out today on major streaming platforms via Rough Trade Records, vinyl LP / compact disc editions available HERE.