Black Midi’s Geordie Greep announces debut solo album ‘The New Sound’
The news comes a week after Greep revealed that the influential London band were breaking up.
Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep has announced details of his debut solo album and shared its first single.
The New Sound will be released on October 4 via Rough Trade, and comes the week after he revealed that Black Midi are breaking up after three hugely influential albums across five years. “Black Midi was an interesting band that’s now indefinitely over,” he said.
Now, he launches his debut album with first single ‘Holy, Holy’ and said of the project: “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.”
Watch the video for ‘Holy, Holy’ below.
Discussing the recording of The New Sound, which took place in London, Sao Paulo and beyond, Greep added: “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.”
See the tracklist and artwork for the album below. Greep will play two sold out shows at London’s Map Studios this week (August 21 and 23), with UK, European and US shows also scheduled across the coming months.
1. ‘Blues’
2. ‘Terra’
3. ‘Holy, Holy’
4. ‘The New Sound’
5. ‘Walk Up’
6. ‘Through A War’
7. ‘Bongo Season’
8. ‘Motorbike’
9. ‘As If Waltz’
10. ‘The Magician’
11. ‘If You Are But A Dream’