All Set The Bone

Greg Freeman — 2026

“All Set The Bone gives Greg Freeman’s guitars, stories, and rough edges room to stretch out, resulting in his biggest and best record yet.”

With each record, Greg Freeman has been growing as an artist, but All Set The Bone feels like a real step forward. Freeman left Burlington, gave up odd jobs like cemetery landscaping and restaurant work, and headed west while committing himself to music full-time. That upheaval seems to have followed him into these songs. “Cahokia” opens with the knockout line, “Time to join the world you fucked up,” while “Totaled” comes crashing in with an attacking guitar that recalls The Replacements or even Modest Mouse at their early indie youthfulness. From there, Freeman rarely takes the obvious route and the record refuses to play by modern rules. In an age of AI singles and TikTok bursts, these 13 tracks average over five minutes and leave room for guitars to sprawl, horns and violin to crash the party, and tempos to suddenly shift. Songs get room to wander and then explode. “Hail Mary” spends two minutes sounding like a band casually warming up before it suddenly erupts into a huge rocker for the back three. Working with John Congleton in Los Angeles helps give all of this double LP some shape without cleaning it up. Freeman’s creaky voice remains right in the middle of everything, singing about unsettled characters, from a voter drowning in credit card debt to a whole town of bent necks, and sounding 100% real through all of it. At 67 minutes, All Set The Bone is a lot of record, but that is exactly what makes it so good. Freeman has made something big, unpredictable, and completely unconcerned with getting to the point quickly. Freeman says every album should scare you, but All Set The Bone sounds fearless. It is easily his best.