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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.

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 20: A Hodge Podge

This is it. Next week we’re back to regular programming! The Hooptober Horror marathon was a joyous slog, and I’m exhausted having just returned from seeing Opeth live at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn, NY and man…I forget just how great a band they are, and the new tracks sounds phenomenal live: “§1” is going to be a staple on their setlist going forward, let me tell you.

More music just keeps coming in the door – at this rate my wife’s going to divorce me either from the sheer real estate my new vinyl and CDs are taking up or because I’ve been on a massive Les Rallizes Dénudés kick, having grabbed three of their archive live sets from Temporary Drift Records in the last few weeks. So this week is a hodge hodge of what I’ve been putting in my ears lately. Next week the plan is to get at least 1-2 reviews in and back to the liner note style of these playlists. So thanks for bearing with me during the dry month and it’s great to have you with me on the other side. Music rocks, and I can’t wait to dive back in again.

Off to the playlist.

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