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Geordie Wade Greep (/ ˈ dʒ ɔːr d iː ɡ r iː p /; born 20 August 1999) [1] [2] is an English musician. From 2017 to 2024, he was the frontman and lead guitarist of the rock band Black Midi , often considered part of the emerging wave of British rock music known as the Windmill scene .
The New Sound is the debut studio album by English musician Geordie Greep, released on 4 October 2024 on Rough Trade Records. [3] The album was produced by Black Midi touring and session member Seth Evans, with co-production from Greep.
Prior to the formation of the band, Geordie Greep had separate jam sessions with Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin and Morgan Simpson, all of whom (alongside Cameron Picton) were attending BRIT School. [5] Simpson was an accomplished drummer, coming from a Jamaican musical family and winning the "Young Drummer of the Year" award in 2014. [6]
Frontman Geordie Greep explained in an interview the perspective of the song's narrative [4] being inspired by George S. Patton: The person speaking is a senior officer berating a junior one about his lack of involvement in this kind of merriment. So he's lecturing this guy, getting progressively irate and eventually dismissing him.
The song's narrative came from lead vocalist and guitarist Geordie Greep's love of boxing, feeling that the sport was "the closest thing to the thrill of listening to music." [7] In a press release, [8] he highlighted the themes of violence and spectacle in the song: There is a little joke here.
"John L" is an avant-garde [2] progressive rock [1] song described by Guitar World as "[featuring] dissonant piano chimes, weaving hypnotic vocals, a cacophony of string sounds, and an edge-of-the-seat dynamic range, spanning from complete silence to raucous, high-energy midsections."
"Slow" is a song by English rock band Black Midi, released in 2021 as the second single from their second studio album, Cavalcade. The song's narrative is that of an idealistic revolutionary being shot after a coup d'etat.
Hellfire moves further in this direction, but with a greater sense of showmanship. Lead vocalist Geordie Greep sounds more like a delirious carnival barker than before, and the music brings to mind Mr. Bungle and Fred Frith more so than the King Crimson-isms of Black Midi's past work." [19]