Ben Gregory unveils new single "blue sea blue"

After announcing his debut solo album with "manifest*" last month, Gregory has delivered a new cut titled "blue sea blue", which lands with a Natàlia Pagès Geli-directed video and will appear on his Episode album with last year's "deathbed hangover" single.

""blue sea blue" is my attempt to explore the conditions of modernity that propel people towards psychic pain and illness," Gregory explains. "The numb ache where constant stimulation meets inescapable boredom. The simultaneous death of community and of solitude… A life recorded and thusly missed. It’s a long song because it’s a big deal."

The former Blaenavon vocalist worked on his debut solo album with producer Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets, and engineer Matt Twaites.

"Everything on Episode comes back to my struggle to interpret, or reinterpret, my life and its core relationships, after having my concept of reality revoked," Gregory explains. "This may sound dramatic, but it’s hard to know if you can trust how you feel about a partner, a situation, a future, when you’ve sat in a hospital bed, torn a newspaper to shreds, sat back and watched it put itself back together."