Ben Gregory proclaims dwell album in collaboration with Marika Hackman and Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets

Joined by esteemed musicians comparable to Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets (who additionally co-produced Ben Gregory’s debut solo album episode) and indie icon Marika Hackman, Gregory has minimize seven model new tracks straight onto vinyl, no breaks, no edits, no overdubs.

With all tracks recorded dwell and minimize straight to vinyl, the nerve-wracking course of leaves no room for errors. Today, Gregory shares the primary monitor, “Same Mistakes”.

The video takes the type of a mini-documentary, with footage of the recording and vinyl reducing course of spliced collectively. With Gregory on guitar, Hackman on bass and Harrison on keys, the result’s an intimate snapshot of a really particular second caught in time.

“This was probably the prangiest day of my life — the totally legit dwell carving of a vinyl disc, upon which even essentially the most grotesque of errors would dwell eternally,” Gregory explains. “Thank god and all his associates that I had two complete geniuses by my facet. Mr Blaine Harrison and Marika Hackman: you two are the bees knees and i like you eternally. It was a unprecedented and superior day at Metropolis making this report, twiddling away and singing in refrain as we’re combined and mastered dwell into the wax. it is all in there! (aside from one disc which we needed to throw straight into the bin)”.

Live From Metropolis is the third physique of labor from Ben Gregory in an inspiringly artistic 2023. In October, Gregory launched Bodied – a thought frightening EP navigating the universally relatable idea of our bodily selves. Bodied adopted on from his emotionally wrenching debut solo album episode.

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