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Geordie Greep Sings the Wanker’s ‘Blues’

Former Black Midi musician Geordie Greep talks going solo, his latest single, 'Blues,' and more in a new interview.

Geordie Greep, the 25-year-old musician striking out on his own after seven years with English avant-rock favorites Black Midi, is sitting in one of Frank Sinatra’s old haunts in New York City, sipping an afternoon martini and discussing how, on his solo debut, The New Sound(out Oct. 4), he really wanted to sing. Greep shapes this character with a wonderfully theatrical vocal performance, locking onto a storyteller’s sing-song patter as he leans into lines that can be grotesque, funny, and tragic — often all three at once: “And you have a bigger dick than any man who’s ever lived/And you can cum more than 100 stallions/In a room that smells of cigarettes and carrion/Under sheets freezing cold with damp.” Last fall, he did a session in London with Simpson on drums and Seth “Shank” Evans — a frequent Black Midi collaborator and producer of The New Sound — on bass; three songs came out of it, including “Blues,” but it was still “familiar territory” for Greep.

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