Atlanta slow-core quartet GREBE announce debut full-length Hell Diver out next year, release lead single and music video “Warbler” November 19, 2025 via Indecent Artistry.
Self-described as “boot-gaze shoe-core birdbath”, GREBE covers a lot of ground, drawing lines between slow-core, shoegaze, alternative, and modern indie rock sounds. This conglomerate of genre is evident on their self-released Spring 2025 debut EP If You Squint It’s All Soup, a five song collection showcasing the group’s dynamic sound, versatility, and clear-eyed lyricism.
Hell Diver builds on these principles, upping the ante tenfold to manifest an apparition of the group’s collective tastes, influences, and collaboration. Lyricist and rhythm guitar player Kade Whitlark (they/them) grew up in the city, meeting and playing music with lead guitarist Logan Neely (he/him) and drummer William Gunnin (he/him) while still in high school. After a brief stint in Bisbee, Arizona spent writing, working, and living on a permaculture homestead, Whitlark returned to the city with a handful of songs and a desire to flesh them out. Whitlark called on their hometown comrades (along with new friend Miles Wakeman (he/him) on bass) to complete and counterpoint their compositions, forming GREBE.
On Hell Diver’s lead single “Warlber”, the group showcase their “sometimes-loud, sometimes-quiet” appetite. Neely’s lead guitar sings ambient chirps and whistles over Whitlark’s clean, tapped-out rhythm part. Whitlark’s vocals soar over the group’s spacey musings, only to take flight as “Warbler” erupts with hard-hitting percussion, a smoothly satisfying bass line, and a wall of wooly guitars. Whitlark’s inspiration for “Warbler” came as they were walking their dog Juno through Atlanta’s Orme Park when the pair stumbled upon a deceased Yellow Hooded Warbler. An avian backyard funeral turned to revelation as Whitlark reflected on returning to live in their childhood home, an experience that they described as “slightly weird, but surprisingly healing”.
Found a Yellow Hooded Warbler
Dead in the park.
Took it home and buried it,
In my backyard.
Pieces of you are buried there too.
Accompanying the lead single “Warbler” is an animated music video out the same day . Whitlark wanted to make a video for the track as it felt like one of the more personal songs on Hell Diver and an apt introduction to GREBE’s next chapter. Creating the video after being asked to participate in DIY artist collective Innerspace’s “I want my Empty Vee” video event, Whitlark animated the single’s companion piece while in the back of the van on tour with fellow ATL artist Siichaq. The result is a stream-of-consciousness trickle of hand-drawn graphics melting and morphing as the track coalesces.
Hell Diver will be released in its entirety over the first half of next year via Athens label Indecent Artistry. The album was recorded and produced at IA headquarters The Eye by Adam Wayton over the course of 5 days. The session featured many late nights and quite a few cases of Miller Lite. GREBE will continue playing live shows in and around Atlanta starting back this January.