Geordie Greep has announced his debut solo album ‘The New Sound’, due out on 04 October 2024.

The black midi guitarist and vocalist has also shared first single ‘Holy, Holy’ alongside an official music video, directed by Ethan and Tom.

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‘The New Sound’ arrives after three astonishing albums with black midi, including most recently 2023s ‘Hellfire’. The full-length has allowed Geordie Greep scope to explore creative ideas like never before and boasts a brand of high quality, all-embracing alternative pop fun not heard in a very long time.

He commented, “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 continued; “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.”

The English musician has also announced a run of solo UK tour dates for this October – full details below:

Bristol The Fleece, 22 Oct
Falmouth The Cornish Bank, 23
Cambridge Storey’s Field Centre, 25
Liverpool Arts Club Theatre, 26
Glasgow The Classic Grand, 27
Newcastle The Cluny, 28
Leeds Brudenell Social Club, 29
Nottingham Rescue Rooms, 30

Tickets on sale Thursday (22 August) at 10am from Gigantic Ticketmaster Ticketweb See Tickets

Geordie Greep ‘The New Sound’ Full Album Tracklisting:

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

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