After two EPs and a three-year hiatus, Southern California indie rock four-piece Greer is just beginning to write their story with their debut full-length, Big Smile, out March 21 via Epitaph. The upcoming album is at once a return to form and a monumental step forward, tracing the sound of a band exorcising their demons and learning to trust themselves. Accompanying the announcement is their new single Franken, surging into emotional crescendos rising and crashing before pulling back into the ether with a resounding ache.
“Learning to heal through emotional fallout, Franken displays desperation and denial of loss,” the band explains, “showing that the harder you deny and try to emotionally graft and force yourself to relive your losses, the more tragic the outcome. There is no healthy healing in forcing your denial onto others and using them for your own benefit. ‘Frankensteining’ your broken heart back together with the pieces of others around you may taint what it once was and turn a loss into a tragic and disgusting image for yourself, making it harder to move on or grow. Coveting broken pieces alone will only send you further into a pit of isolation and regret.”
