Talk:The New Sound

GA review

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Nominator: Engineeringest (talk · contribs) 17:34, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Monkeysmashingkeyboards (talk · contribs) 19:59, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Issues

• Large portions of the article are just quotes from interviews of Greep.
  • I intend on working to reduce these quotations down a bit, and/or changing a few of them to paraphrases. Engineeringest (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
    • I think I've accomplished this hopefully to satisfaction, especially in the Lyrics section. Engineeringest (talk) 23:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
• The album was recorded in London and São Paulo between September 2023 and April 2024.
  This seems a bit conflicted - the background section just moments later says Greep recorded the album in London and São Paulo between September 2023 and March 2024. Make this clearer - The last overdubs were recorded in April 2024 should be made more clearer.
  • This should be resolved now, the March end date was sourced to a reference that didn't mention dates at all, and the album liner notes demonstrate that the latest date referenced is April 2024, for overdubs at New Sound Studios. Engineeringest (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
• Murphy, Liam (14 October 2014). "Clash Magazine Review". Clash. Archived from the original on 14 December 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2024. What? This album was released in 2024, so how is it possible for a review of this album be published in 2014?
  • This looks to have been a simple typo (2014 v 2024), fixed. Engineeringest (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
• The lead section doesn't summarize the article completely - skimping out on critical acclaim, and no mention of lyrical and musical style.
• "Background" really just is another Recording section - maybe add some information about his tenure as the black midi frontman, and merge the current text with Recording?
  • I've moved some of this content to Recording and will expand the Background soon with a bit of Greep's history with Black Midi. Engineeringest (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
• The Music/Lyrics section is... weird.
  • The New Sound is primarily a progressive rock and jazz-rock album,[1] but also draws heavy inspiration from Brazilian music} - "primarily" is redundant.
  • The album's opening track "Blues" is primarily a collaboration between Greep, Evans, and Black Midi drummer Morgan Simpson, with Greep noting: "It's one of the most impromptu in terms of the arrangement. That song was me and Morgan and Shank. I had the idea, but I wanted to keep it as loose as possible. The recording is the only time we played the song in full. It's all about the interaction between the drums and the vocal. I wanted to do something like one of my favorite singers, this French singer Léo Ferré. He has this rhetorical writing, starting with a theme and going down and down until you get to this pessimistic, nihilistic, end of the universe kind of thing."[12]
    The album's closing track is a cover of the 1940's song, "If You Are But a Dream", with Greep noting: "It's an old tune that Frank Sinatra did in the '40s. When I first heard it, I was like, "Why is this song not more famous?" It's a brilliant tune, really unusual. It's based on this Anton Rubinstein thing from the early 20th century. I've been really interested in this thing of good lyrics — not when the lyrics are, like, the best lyrics of all time, but when the music, the lyrics, and the melody all come together and synthesize a weird new feeling. [...] I wanted to do a version of that with a Salvation Army brass band vibe, like Tom Waits or something."[10] - just 2 long quotes from interviews, and not necessary IMO. If a reader wants to learn more about the album just let them read the interviews - e.g. cut portions of the quote, or paraphrase it.
  • The storytelling on The New Sound is frequently told from the point of view of characters Greep wrote, inspired by men that he met out drinking at clubs and the stories that they would tell him. - Not exactly concise. The first sentence is a big nothing burger - same meaning as "The characters on this album are written by Greep." Could be cut, or made shorter.
  • Regarding the album's second single and opening track "Blues", Greep said, "I wanted to do a song about when you think you're the shit, and you have this feeling when you're walking down the street, and you can imagine it's a movie. Like, what a wanker! It's just a load of funny lines strung together, really, with the theme of like 18-year-old pretentiousness."[19] - Readers already know what "Blues" is. (The album's opening track "Blues" is primarily a collaboration between...), so we don't need to introduce it twice.
    • Will work on these issues throughout the weekend and beyond. Just wanted to give an update for now, as I've got more time to start addressing them. Engineeringest (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
      • I've rewritten the Music and Lyrics section, and feedback on that would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully the most glaring issues have been resolved and there's a little more clarification for the reader. If that's the case, the only outstanding issues left would be the lead section and Background. Engineeringest (talk) 23:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:59, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Geordie Greep announced his debut solo album, The New Sound, just ten days after revealing the band Black Midi was on an indefinite hiatus?

• Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/geordie-greep-and-nnamdi-01-13-25 - "the London musician unceremoniously revealed that the band was 'now indefinitely over.' Ten days later, Greep announced his next move: a solo début, 'The New Sound.'"

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Improved to Good Article status by Engineeringest (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Engineeringest (talk) 02:03, 21 October 2025 (UTC).

• , QPQ not needed, hook is sourced and insteresting, page new enough and long enough, earwig isn't raising any flags. Olliefant (she/her) 21:03, 27 October 2025 (UTC)