Greg Freeman returns with a dreamy new single, "Curtain." It is the second single from his upcoming album "Burnover," due by 22nd August on Transgressive Records/Canvasback Music. Produced by Adrian Quesada (Jungle, Black Pumas, Spanish Gold), "Curtain" would close the curtain most poetically without failing to keep the audience breathless.
In Freeman's words, unfurling at a tranquil pace, "Curtain" is "a love song of sorts." It does not vacuously announce itself with splendor, but it is the sort of emotional gravitas that sinks in for a long. This is a disarmingly intimate song, as you can't fake what happens when you keep the take raw and honest. By sticking with what was probably his first vocal take, Freeman lends the song an allure, as if you were to come across an entry from his diary scribbled in the early morning hush.
Freeman sprinkles surprises throughout, from barnyard animal sounds buried in the background to a delicate, barely perceptible layering that never overtakes the song's center. But what really lifts "Curtain" is the addition of Cam and Sam on soprano saxophone and piano. The performance lifts up the track into something quietly majestic. The sax floats like smoke, the piano grounded like memory. Coupled with a music video shot and directed by Carl Elsaesser, repurposed footage from one of Elsaesser's short films, it rounds Curtain into more than just a song. It's a visual and aural meditation on fleeting emotion, openness, and the quiet chaos of connection.
Freeman must be on that creative wave, and "Curtain" can only hype us up even more for "Burnover." You rarely hear a song that feels so deliberately unpolished and yet emotionally whole, like a painting intentionally left half-finished because the brushstrokes contain enough information. With "Curtain," Greg Freeman gives you space inside the silence, the feeling, and the peculiar beauty of what is left unsaid.