Geordie Greep: The New Sound (2024)

Here’s a hot take for the prog nerds: most of y’all don’t actually want music to be progressive. You want your progressive rock to sit safe and snug in the catacombs of bands laid to rest 40-50 years ago. You want the comfort and familiarity of long tracks, keyboard jack offs and clean, soaring vocals (god forbid there’s some death growls in there, y’all seem to be losing your minds at the new Opeth). How else to describe the general lack of discussion around an album as ambitiously and confrontationally titled as The New Sound, the debut offering from former black midi (RIP) guitarist and vocalist Geordie Greep?¹ It takes Greep’s former band’s sonic exploration and stuttering rhythms and slaps a fresh coat of Latin and lounge and fiery rock for one of the best progressive albums of the year.

ChrisDecember 13, 2024December 12, 20241 Comment

Vinyl

black midi: Schlagenheim (2019)

Day 24 of the #mayvinylchallenge asks for an impulse buy: a record you just had to have. For me there aren’t a lot of albums I relentlessly crave or “have” to have, but I impulse buy a lot. The most recent example of this was when I was listening to “Welcome to Hell” the new single from UK post-everything black midi. Being so caught up in older music it’s always great to hear something new that strikes a nerve, and as I was listening to the new song I realized I didn’t own the band’s 2019 debut Schlagenheim. That was a problem quickly rectified, and so here we are to talk about it.

ChrisMay 24, 2022Leave a comment

Miscellany

Consuming in 2021: New Music

Sorry I’ve been away for a while. Due to holidays and some burnout I’ve been helping to hold down the fort at my other job over at Nine Circles, where I took over our weekly playlist and started my annual series of posts wrapping up my favorite metal albums of the year. And while my primary focus for 2021 has been digging deeper into the nooks and crannies of the music that made me a rock and roll addict for over 40 years, I still managed to find my way to a number of new releases that fired the synapses and gave way to the euphoric bliss of being able to turn away the ever-growing anxiety and depression. So before we jump back into the waters of yesteryear (Christmas yielded a bevy of vinyl treasures I can’t wait to talk about) let’s spend a little bit of time talking about some new music that kept my head, heart, and soul afloat this year.

ChrisDecember 31, 2021December 31, 20214 Comments

Consuming the Tangible

We are what we consume

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Geordie Greep: The New Sound (2024)

black midi: Schlagenheim (2019)

Consuming in 2021: New Music