Geordie Greep has shared details of his second album, which will follow up his debut solo release, The New Sound. The former Black Midi member has been touring The New Sound since its release in November 2024 and has not released any new material since. But Greep has since issued new details of what’s in store for a potential follow-up.
The Blues and Holy, Holy hitmaker took to his Instagram account and shared details of being on the road across Europe and Asia in 2026, along with an update on his second album. Greep has claimed this will be a three-hour-long experience pulling from his influences and favourite parts of music.
He wrote: “For anyone wondering about the next album – the ambition grows by the day. And I want it to be at least 100 times as good as the last. It will be. It will be three hours long and encompass everything I like about music. That’s all for now.” This update comes nearly two years to the day of Greep’s first single, Holy, Holy, releasing.
The former Black Midi member had announced the dissolution of the band in August 2024, with Greep confirming the group was “indefinitely over”. He would also say in October of that year there was enough material left over from recording The New Sound to make a second album. This has not yet materialised, though he said at the time: “I’ve got enough for another one.
“I’m going to try and record at the end of this year. The New Sound was done over like nine months, it was quite a long time going. So I want to try and do an album in, like, two days—ECM-style. Record one day, mix the next day, and that’s it. That would be great.”
A one-album deal with Rough Trade Records paved the way to the release of The New Sound. Greep confirmed back in 2024: “I got a one-album deal with Rough Trade, and that was after I’d already done most of the recording. The album was basically finished, but then the producer [Seth Evans] had to pay a mixing engineer, so I went to Rough Trade and it was great. They said, ‘Alright, the album’s already done, so that’s it.’ There was no ‘It needs a single’ or anything. It’s never been like that with them anyway.”
Greep has been busy in the studio since then, producing and contributing guitar to Knats’ second studio album, A Great Day in Newcastle. The album would give Knats their first Mercury Prize nomination, with the likes of Olivia Dean, Paul McCartney, and Nia Archives also tipped for the award.
The Through a War songwriter has in the past cited Frank Zappa, Igor Stravinsky, and John Eliot Gardiner’s recording of Bach’s Mass in B minor as some of his favourite music. The Bach recording he once called his “two favourite hours of recorded music ever.”
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