Geordie Greep - Through A War

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There's a related band called black midi, who I didn't enjoy the first time around. In retrospect, I think its purely due to their name that I made that association. I listened to their song Sugar/Tzu, and the most amazing part to me was how they repurposed whatever 1920s vocal clips and samples into an actual song.

Turns out that sample is actually the current living 1999-born vocalist Geordie Greep. He has an extremely unique voice, his singing accent is completely unplaceable to me, he's 25, he makes solo music now, and it's extremely good.

Figure 1: The album cover for The New Sound. Many of these songs from this album feel like they're being sung by the decapitated guy in this image. Simping is a recurring theme.

To me this album is like prime Billie Joel if he was chronically online. The singing is great, there's avant-guard instrumentation, every song has an entire plot, it's just so unusual. It feels music from a musical.

I heard the first song from this album, Holy Holy, around 5am on a day I woke up early to get some school work done. The vibe was unique enough it stopped me in my tracks.

This post is about the song Through a War (links above). I think its a good example of what the album offers. I mean Terra may genuinely be a better song, but the lyrics of Through A War are funnier.

Figure 2: The waveform of Through A War. There is structure here, but its atypical. Kind of representative of this whole album.

Vibe Check

This song is from a musical from an alternate dimension - and it serves the same purpose as broadway music. Incomparable otherwise.