We recently had the magnificent opportunity to check out the new album, “Big Smile” from SoCal indie rock band, Greer. You can listen to “Big Smile” Here

Judging from the first two singles, “Had Enough” and “Franken” we had a feeling that “Big Smile” from Greer, was going to be something special…. We were right!

“In a way, we always say this record has been six years in the making,” they reflect. After a few years of being a band, signing to Epitaph and releasing two buzzy EPs (Lullaby For YouandHappy People), the young SoCal foursome behind Greer was feeling burnt and disconnected from the songs they’d written and toured. While 2021 came and went, a pandemic-induced fatigue led to their decision to go on an indefinite hiatus while finding individual clarity. Greer had to grow up again.

Returning to drummer Lucas’s Orange County garage where it all started, the band began to unearth old drafts and alchemize their matured, fully realized sound, eventually entering the studio withRob Schnapf(Elliott Smith, The Vines, Beck) with over two hundred songs written. The thirteen tracks that make up the album are the band’s emotional champions that track the tumultuous period between the start of their break and the peace they found on their way back. “‘Omnibus,’ the album’s opener, presents confusion in a vacuum of noise,” the band explains, “the overbearing weight of loss and struggling to find purpose, which slowly tames and realizes itself progressing through the track list; while ‘audio_77’ is the gossamer, an acoustic closer that reveals a placid beauty and quiet realization, concluding a long and chaotic haze with tender rest.” Laced between are vignettes of raw intensity, releasing the somber energy retained from Greer’s individual experiences while unveiling a complex new texture to their sound and reclaiming their narrative in the process. 

Every song on “Big Smile” is a well thought out , well crafted gem . We were hanging on every word and melody. It was like we were reading a best selling novel.

“Big Smile” , from Greer , is a record that has a big beautiful sound that we can’t help but gravitate to . If David Bowie, made an indie rock record in 2025, we think it would sound a lot like this .

Leading into the record’s release, the members of Greer – Josiah (vocals, guitar), Corbin (guitar, vocals), Seth (bass guitar), and Lucas (drums) – participated in a 36-hour livestream as part of their Greer On Display x Heaven by Marc Jacob’s exhibition. Enclosed together in a 7’x7’ space and displayed in the gallery’s window on Fairfax in Los Angeles for that time while committing to limited technology usage and radical transparency, fans had the chance to follow every moment of Greer’s experiment, capped by a raucous DIY performance in the space. 

The band also recently announced their month-long North American headlining tour kicking off in Phoenix, AZ on May 30 and wrapping up in Santa Ana, CA on June 30. “Despite the amount of time that has transpired since our last release, we as a band feel solid as a rock,” says Greer. “We’re nervous for our old fans to hear how our sound has changed, but that nervousness quickly overlaps with the excitement we feel in listening to the songs. We are so excited to get back on stage and sing our hearts out.” All dates are listed below, and tickets can be purchased here. 

“Big Smile”, from Greer is one of those special records we will be talking about for years to come.

TOUR DATES 

May 30 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
May 31 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
June 2 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s
June 3 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
June 5 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
June 6 – Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theatre
June 7 – Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall
June 9 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
June 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
June 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
June 13 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
June 14 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
June 15 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
June 17 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
June 18 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
June 19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
June 21 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
June 22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
June 24 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
June 25 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
June 27 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
June 28 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom [SOLD OUT]
June 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
June 30 – Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory