7/16/2024

Greg Freeman Starts Summer Tour, Plays Pickathon + Stereogum Live "Tower" Performance | 'I Looked Out' LP Out Now

Greg Freeman Starts Summer Tour,
Plays Pickathon 8/2

Watch Stereogum Live "Tower" Performance 

I Looked Out LP Out Now
Photo Cred: Justin Gordon
LISTEN & SHARE: Greg Freeman - I Looked Out
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PRAISE FOR GREG FREEMAN

"'The Celtic thrum of noise that kicks off his album is a bit of a red herring (it’s full of hopelessly addicting indie-rock bops), and while a track like “Colorado” is missing shoegaze tenets like “glide guitar,” the voluminous crescendos (packed in tight with warm, tattered horn blasts) create a shoegaze-like effect, and “Souvenir Heart” indeed uses the unmistakable yowl of a distorted ‘gaze guitar."
Stereogum

"I’m late on this one — it’s my favorite album of 2022 that I discovered in 2023... It’s obvious that Freeman has worshipped at the altar of the late, great Jason Molina, though he also brings his own influences (particularly ’90s indie rock in the form of Neutral Milk Hotel and Guided By Voices) to the table. What I’m saying is that this is yet another blown-out country-rock record that sometimes delves into pure noise. (I can’t get enough of this formula lately.)"
Uproxx
Vermont's finest, Greg Freeman is going out on tour, and is bringing his noisy art-rock Americana act to a city near you! He combines slide guitar and soprano saxophone and kicks things off with L'Esco on July 23rd in Montreal. Watch Greg Freeman's Stereogum SXSW "Tower"Live Performance for a sneak preview, a sprawling epic track off his critically acclaimed debut LP I Looked Out.

Tickets for these dates are on sale now. Find more information and tickets HERE.
GREG FREEMAN LIVE
July 23rd - Montreal - L'Esco
July 24th - Toronto - Baby G
July 25th - Detroit - New Dodge Lodge
July 27th - Chicago - Subterranean
July 29th - Minneapolis - 7th Street Entry
July 31st - Missoula - Zootown Arts Community Center
August 2nd - Portland - Pickathon
August 3rd - Seattle - The Black Lodge
Greg Freeman Bio:

"Greg Freeman deals in biblical deluges, apocalyptic fever dreams, Floridian miscreants, and green mountain malaise. On his excellent debut LP I Looked Out, Gregs’s voice takes center stage, creaking, crooning, and cutting through clouds of static. The songs are linked together by a palpable urgency, whether it is the punch-in-the-face, careening momentum of “Tower,” the country-gazing guitar squall of “Souvenir Heart,” or the singalong finale of “Palms.” Careful arrangements and production choices bring out the best of the 7-piece band that ornament the album with pedal steel, horns, eerie strings, and tape warbles. Greg’s strong narrative songwriting is equally effective chronicling the demise of a 1920s ocean liner as it is documenting his own interpersonal uncertainties. The sounds on the record conjure up the feeling of driving around Chittenden County in the middle of winter, high beams on, slush on the floor mats. It’s hard for me to imagine a more promising debut record, and I can’t wait to see where this band goes next."
 - Garrett Linck

GREG FREEMAN LINKS
Website | Bandcamp | Instagram

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