IMAGES MAY NOT BE EXACT - SEE DESCRIPTION FOR MENTION OF *ACTUAL PHOTOS* - OTHERWISE THEY ARE LIKELY GENERIC PHOTOS FOR REFERENCE. REFER TO CONDITION RATINGS FOR THE BEST IDEA OF SLEEVE AND VINYL CONDITIONS AND/OR COMMENTS SPECIFIC TO THIS COPY. ***PRE-ORDERS*** The label of pre-orders will be created within a day of purchase but your item will not actually ship until or just before the release date - Also, if you combine a pre-order with existing stock items you will need to pay 2 shipping charges if you would like your in-stock items to ship right away and have the pre-order ship later -or- we will wait for the pre-order and ship all together at no extra shipping charge. Geordie Greep - The New Sound (YELLOW COVER) - ALT/INDIE *NEW* Item Description

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Description

“Music can be so much more than learning to play the same as everybody else. It can be anything you want.”

Geordie’s debut solo album boasts a brand of high quality, all-embracing alternative pop fun, walking the line between the ridiculous and brilliant with a teflon-coated aplomb.

How the record came about is a thing to marvel at. Over thirty session musicians were involved in its making, on two continents. Greep says, “Half of the tracks were done in Brazil, with local musicians pulled together at the last minute. They’d never heard anything I’d done before, they were just interested in the demos I’d made. The tracking was all done in one, maybe two days.”

Street life is all around The New Sound: the listener is thrown into a world of cafes, bars, rented rooms, cabarets, and strange museums. Here we see our heroes carry out a series of naughty assignments, military cosplay, or socio-economic triumphs. The lines between parody and sermon are often blurred. The urbane romantic fantasy of single ‘Holy Holy’ tells the story of an imaginary liaison in a nightclub, soundtracked by ’noughties indie chords and bravura Latin big band arrangements - including a three-piano attack.

Brass, wah-wah pedal and bass stabs, choruses and polyrhythms, all fizz and tumble around the place creating a sense of excitement and expectation. Tracks often oscillate from whispers to shouts and start and end on a bang.

The spirit of Greep’s increasingly febrile and furtive soliloquies conjure up both Franks (Zappa & Sinatra), with a side of Scott Walker.

Media Condition: Mint (M) Genre: ALTERNATIVE Sleeve Condition: Mint (M) Format Type: 2xLP CONDITION RATINGS : G / G+ / VG / VG+ / VG++ / EX / EX+ / NM / MINT You may request the results of a play test. Shipping can be combined on multiple items! Upon Request: New records can be nicely taken out of their sealed sleeves and shipped this way to protect from seam splits during transit. Additional Pictures Or Info Upon Request : (Seth)