Greg Freeman has returned with All Set the Bone, a third album that deliberately pushes beyond the scale of his earlier work. Released October 2 through Transgressive and Canvasback, the 13-song record arrives after the Vermont songwriter’s 2025 album Burnover and continues a rapid rise built around sharply drawn writing, restless guitar music and an increasingly expansive sense of arrangement.
John Congleton produced the record, and the release has quickly become part of this week’s wider independent-rock conversation. Rather than narrowing Freeman’s sound after Burnover, All Set the Bone opens it up: the songs move through indie rock, Americana and more volatile guitar-driven territory while keeping Freeman’s writing at the center.
A third album built to stretch
The track list includes “Cahokia,” “Culture,” “Loser’s Prize,” “Withdrawn,” “Hail Mary,” “Decade,” “Marooned,” “Next To Nothing,” “Costs” and “Bury Me The Shovel.” Current coverage has focused especially on the way “Cahokia” changes shape inside a single song, moving through several rock vocabularies rather than settling into one fixed lane.
That willingness to let songs sprawl is important to the album’s identity. Freeman is not presenting All Set the Bone as a tidy sequel. The record is longer, more structurally adventurous and interested in the friction between intimate songwriting and a full-band sound capable of suddenly becoming much larger.
Freeman’s momentum continues
The release also arrives at a point when Freeman is no longer simply an emerging Vermont songwriter operating below the radar. Burnover significantly expanded his audience, and the move into a John Congleton-produced record places the new album inside a broader alternative-rock conversation without severing the regional, independent character that helped establish him.
For listeners discovering Freeman now, All Set the Bone offers a useful picture of where his music is heading: less concerned with fitting neatly into alt-country or indie-rock categories and more interested in what can happen when those forms are allowed to collide.
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