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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release from black midi frontman Geordie Greep features over 30 session musicians and was recorded in Brazil and England.
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- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Record CollectorNov 4, 2024An album of fevered imagination and boundless musical daring. [Dec 2024, p.107]
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Oct 4, 2024["The Magician" is] an astounding piece of music that has to be heard to be believed, and cements The New Sound as a triumphant success for Greep’s burgeoning solo career.
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Oct 9, 2024Absolutely bonkers and utterly brilliant, if black midi’s indefinite hiatus was the high price for ‘The New Sound’, then it was a price worth paying.
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Oct 1, 2024While the album aims large, in every way imaginable, beneath its enormous sound lies the unmistakable sorrow of a man crying alone.
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Oct 9, 2024It’s too frantic, too kinetic, and has too many places to be, which over the course of the album makes the essential beauty of Greep’s singing and the featherlight precision of his band feel like a front they’re tiring of holding up. It’s fitting, even artistically admirable, that such strain makes The New Sound’s music an appropriate wingman for characters who struggle to maintain basic human kindness. But it sure makes for an uncomfortable conversation.
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Nov 18, 2024The New Sound shows itself off with a lot of bluster and impressive arrangement, but eventually reveals itself to be just as crumpled and insecure as the protagonists of its songs. At least the compositions are exquisite.
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MojoOct 1, 2024It's a mess of ambition and avant overload, and often too much, but you can't help but admire The New Sound's Stevie Chick wild abandon. And while the whirlwind of concepts and sonic right-turns ultimately fails to cohere, its thrills are many. [Nov 2024, p.84]