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Ex-Black Midi star Geordie Greep: ‘Almost every band behaves like a corporation. Everything is a press release’
After his abrupt dissolving of the spiky art rock favourites, the singer has returned intent on making music ‘for your ears, not your brain’
When the 25-year-old musician meets me at a bar in Soho, London, he barely speaks above a whisper over the course of our 90-minute conversation – a surprising contrast to the charismatic frontman of Black Midi he’s presented as for the past few years. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The GuardianAlthough the lyrics on The New Sound may be satirical, the music itself feels totally earnest – Greep’s vocals, in the style of a Broadway performer, can be surprisingly gut-wrenching. He thinks his announcement of the end – writing “Black midi was an interesting band that’s indefinitely over” in the comments of an Instagram Live stream – “was the wrong thing to do, probably,” but he’s also glad that there was a little bit of personality in it.
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