Greet Death "Die In Love" is available everywhere now.
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"...their most eclectic release and also a satisfying reassertion that Greet Death are the superior 'heavy shoegaze' band in a sea of enterprising clones." - ย Stereogum
"Greet Death have a spectral take on shoegaze thatโs unnerving..." - ย The FADER
"throughout the sprawling scope on Die In Love, Greet Deathโs songs convey the subtlety of the phantoms and ghouls they reference as real anxieties made manifest" - ย Treble
"as haunting as it is beautiful" - ย VICE
True to the bandโs name, death creeps into nearly all of ย Greet Death โs songs. And yet, through this ever-present certainty, the band finds the absolute core of what it means to be alive.
Since 2011, elementary school friends Logan Gaval and Harper Boyhtari have been writing songs full of big ideas and everyday details. Their music, loud and full of melodic sensibility, draws from shoegaze, doomgaze, and a little-bit-of-everything-gaze, creating an emotionally maximalist palette. Writing separately but playing together (think of them as small-town Michiganโs Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus), theyโve been drawing in a devoted crowd ever since their unexpectedly successful debut ย Dixieland ย in 2017, followed by their next-level opus ย New Hell ย in 2019. Youโd be hard-pressed to find albums with such heart: ones flooded both with full-bloom feelings and the dumb stories we tell ourselves in order to get through the day.
Returning six years later with ย Die In Love, their third and best album, ย Greet Death ย face the great human problemโthat we must go on living despite knowing weโre going to die, and loving despite knowing weโre going to lose it allโwith great sensitivity, humor, and flourish. With this album, ย Greet Death ย have found a way to anthemize our suffering, to turn it into one great, big, beautiful singalong.
Greet Death ย recorded ย Die In Love ย in Harperโs parentsโ basement in Davisburg, Michigan, the place where she and Logan spent much of their preteen and adolescent years. They cut their teeth in that basement, learning how to be a band around the time School of Rock came out and inspired in aughts kids a new possible life path. Logan and Harper covered Metallica and Blink-182 and wrote songs about batteries and frozen yogurt. Returning to that basement well over a decade later to record their third album felt like the back-to-basics moment they needed, something that would take the pressure off after years away from the studio.
Ever since they were kids, music has been the primary form of communication for Logan and Harper. Between them, theyโre able to mine the absolute essence of everything both through big picture ideas and small vignettes of life. In Loganโs songs we hear the former, and in Harperโs the latter.
Die In Love ย asks how we can possibly cope with all the inevitable loss weโll experience in this life. How on Earth can anyone survive it? The point is that none of us do. So, enjoy the bullshit Eagles songs while they last; the cheap beer, the disappointing New Year's Eve celebrations, the family members and the lovers who choose to stay a little while.
โ Pain and loss. Everyone feels it, itโs a very human thing,โ says Logan.ย He continues: โ At the end of the day, weโre lucky to lose people we care about."
Greet Death, on tour:
Jul. 25ย Grand Rapids, MI โ T-Rex Fest
Sep. 21ย Boston, MA โ Royale ^
Sep. 23ย Detroit, MI โ The Majestic Theater ^
Sep. 24ย Chicago, IL โ Thalia Hall ^
Sep. 26ย Minneapolis, MN โ First Avenue ^
Sep. 27ย Milwaukee, WI โ Turner Hall ^
Sep. 29ย Omaha, NE โ Slowdown ^
Sep. 30ย Kansas City, MO โ The Truman ^
Oct. 02ย Denver, CO โ The Gothic Theatre ^
Oct. 04ย Boise, ID โ Knitting Factory ^
Oct. 05ย Missoula, MT โ Top Hat
Photo by:ย Kat Nijmeddin