ALL SET THE BONE
OUT 2ND OCTOBER VIA TRANSGRESSIVE/CANVASBACK
WATCH VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE “INDU”
ANNOUNCES 2026 UK, EU AND US TOUR DATES
Greg Freeman by Gabe Long | Download Hi-Res HERE
Greg Freeman announces his anticipated new album, All Set The Bone, with a video for its instantly memorable and explosive lead single “Indu”. The John Congleton-produced album is due October 2nd via Transgressive/Canvasback.
Freeman was barely done making his breakthrough album, Burnover, which was released to wide critical praise and landed in The New York Times Best Albums of 2025 list and received the coveted ‘Best New Album’ distinction fromPitchfork, when he started writing its successor. He chased disruptions with confidence, creating on impulse rather than familiarity. “I had this epiphany moment where I understood what the next record should be,” he says, “which surprised me, because I thought it would take a lot longer to have the influences or inspiration required to undertake writing a new album.” What arrived instead were radioactive songs that never seemed overworked or moralising.
Freeman calls All Set The Bone a “reflection of a lot of change, and a lot of tension.” It’s a box of political and personal yarns spread across four sides, “inhuman events” and grief pulled into a “perfect tsunami.” While writing and recording it, Freeman moved out of his long-time home in Burlington, holed up in a middle-of-nowhere part of the Southwest, and stepped into music full-time, leaving behind odd jobs as a cemetery landscaper and restaurant line cook. The following album is populated by a grain of similarly unsettled people: a voter buried in credit card debt, a pair of Christian hearts clanking like trapped lobsters, a town of bent necks, a lover with limbs bent like crab apple trees.
All Set The Bone features Freeman’s long-time collaborators Garrett Linck and Sam Atallah, and new ones including Florry’s Joey Sullivan, The Rockin Worms’ Carney Hemler, Anna McClellan and Trinity Ace.
Traces of pre-Good News Modest Mouse and early Pavement linger, but All Set The Bone resists easy lineage through a deliberate fracture that’s twisting yet familiar. Freeman’s long-time obsessions with Fugazi and Unwound colour the album’s heavier dirges and its spangled outposts grew from a diet of Big Star, The Drones, and Mission of Burma. Lyrically, Freeman’s pen is too strong for analogy, as he riffs on bodies turned to ground beef, or chasing a dream but settling for a niche.
After Burnover’s queasy fixation on ghost stories and various New York locales and histories, Freeman again returns to the immediacy and anxiety of time and history, building a choir of questions out of constellations where “the light pours in the like hourglass sand.” Opener “Cahokia” is titled after the ancient Indigenous mounds that sit on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, whose builders disappeared. Freeman uses taxidermy and amber-casted bugs to contextualise songs about love and grief. Near the end of side one, he even makes this striking declaration: “No culture, and no more rock and roll.” But “Decade” may sum All Set The Bone up best: “History rubbernecks at each of your darkening thoughts.” Freeman says there’s a “sense of time running out, of us becoming stuck in the trajectory of our own history.” It’s a theme that he’s been unpacking since I Looked Out, but he’s never done it better than right here in these seventy minutes.
On All Set The Bone, he embraces friction instead of refusing it, using scant rehearsal times and urgent, self-appointed deadlines to fill his third album with ambitious whims: smile-stretching guitar scorchers, cosmic percussive surges, near-baroque piano riffs, psych-rock noodles, brass cutouts, and enough key changes to build an unsolvable musical maze. All Set The Bone was finished quickly, in a real Hollywood studio with one of rock’s best modern architects, and with minimal separation between idea and outcome. For Freeman, uncertainty has become his wealthiest currency. “It should never feel comfortable,” he says. “Every album should scare you.”
Tour Dates:
21/07 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool =
12/08 – Paredes de Coura, PT @ Parades De Coura Festival
14/08 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West
17/08 – Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana
18/08 – London, UK @ MOTH Club (Sold Out)
19/08 – London, UK @ MOTH Club
20/08 – Manchester, EN @ YES
21/08 – Wales, UK @ Green Man Festival
22/08 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
25/08 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
27/08 – Paris, FR @ Supersonic
28/08 – Eindhoven, NL @ Hit the City Festival
29/08 – Vlieland, NL @ Into The Great Wide Open
20/10 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *
22/10 – Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club *
23/10 – Lakewood, OH @ Mahall’s *
24/10 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
25/10 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon *
27/10 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall `
28/10 Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge `
30/10 – Denver, CO @ Marquis *
31/10 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
02/11 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern *
03/11 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater *
05/11 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent *
06/11 – South Pasadena, CA @ Sid The Cat Auditorium *
07/11 – San Diego, CA @ Voodoo Room at House of Blues San Diego *
10/11 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s Nightclub #
11/11 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada #
13/11 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Purgatory Stage #
14/11 – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy ^
15/11 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall ^
16/11 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis ^
18/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church ^
20/11 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall ^
21/11 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom ^
= w/ Wendy Eisenberg
* w/ Hello Shark
` w/ Walker Rider
* w/ Trinity Ace
# w/ Touch Girl Apple Blossom
^ w/ Robber Robber
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