| "Holy, Holy" | ||||
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| Single by Geordie Greep | ||||
| from the album The New Sound | ||||
| Released | August 20, 2024 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, Art rock, Latin rock | |||
| Length | 6:04 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Geordie Greep | |||
| Producer(s) | Seth "Shank" Evans, Geordie Greep | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Holy, Holy" on YouTube | ||||
"Holy, Holy" is the debut solo single by English musician Geordie Greep, released on 20 August 2024 on Rough Trade Records as the lead single to his debut album, The New Sound . The single was released only 10 days after Greep announced Black Midi was "indefinitely over" [1] to critical acclaim from publications like Pitchfork, who ranked it as the 11th best song of 2024 months later. [2]
"Holy, Holy" is a progressive rock song described by KXSC Radio as "[blending] post-punk, prog, funk, and latin jazz fusion" [3] The track, like many in The New Sound, was inspired by men Greep met while drinking at clubs and the stories they would tell him, sang from the point of view of a cartoonishly misogynist character. The song's chorus describes the character being known by "jihadis", which Greep said was inspired by how Andrew Tate bragged about ISIS watching his videos. [4] Writing for Pitchfork, Sam Goldner compared the song to Steely Dan and Pere Ubu. [5] Krysta Fauria of the Associated Press described the single as "cacophonous, and somehow pleasing," which she cited as "evidence of Greep’s idiosyncratic skill." [6]
The music video for "Holy, Holy" was released alongside the song on August 20, directed by Ethan Barrett and Tom Gullam (credited as simply "Ethan & Tom"). [7] It presents Greep at a bowling alley, and drinking cocktails while singing to the camera. Towards the end of the video, Greep walks into a billiard room and the video zooms into a floating black square, where various casino signs and lights fly past in kaleidoscope-like imagery. The University of Nottingham's The Mic analyzed the video's editing, and noted it as purposefully edited to show Greep scoring perfect strikes every time in order to reiterate the song's ironic nature. [8]