Gregor – Satanic Lullabies album launch

Melbourne pop eccentric Gregor launches his fourth album Satanic Lullabies, his deepest and darkest record yet, with a special duo show at Jazz Lab.

Satanic Lullabies is a modern epic, a bedroom odyssey, like if pre-MAGA Kanye West made a Disney soundtrack. The album has polar extremes of wide-eyed innocence and deep despair. There are moments of great musical beauty that segue into harsh, bleak soundscapes. “I’m seeking to draw attention to the similarities between heaven and hell,” says Gregor, “and to comfort anyone who recognises these.”

In the years since his first album, 2016’s Thoughts & Faults, Gregor’s music has got progressively odder, more challenging and more rewarding. The spacious, acerbic pop of Silver Drop (2018), featuring touching single A Song About Holding Hands, was followed by the lovesick Destiny (2020), which put Gregor’s inquisitive pop through a warped filter.
Gregor’s music has been written up by Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Age/SMH and elsewhere. Cillian Murphy played A Song About Holding Hands on his BBC 6 Music show. He is an NTS favourite with airplay from Trevor Jackson, Tropic Of Cancer, Maria Somerville and others.

Gregor’s live show ranges from solo mode up to a ten piece band, and he has played festivals such as Golden Plains, Dark Mofo, Inner Varnika, Boogie and The Others Way (NZ). He was nominated for Best Album and Best Solo Artist in the 2019 Music Victoria Awards, and Best Pop Act in 2021.