Some artists emphasize the importance of craft and expression in their music, creating work that extends beyond music itself. Michael Davie, who records as greek, is that kind of artist. Growing up in Martinsville, Virginia, his knowledge of music came through a Kindle Fire and YouTube. His self-taught foundation became the whole point behind his music. When he eventually moved to Los Angeles and released his 2022 debut, EXTC, it showcased the culmination of years spent learning every element of music from scratch.

Those releases that followed each marked a distinct shift in direction. Accelerator pushed past the expectations EXTC created. Cedar's Tape felt a lot more extroverted while growing confidence as a live performer playing more instruments onstage. Alongside his own work, he has produced for JID, Ty Dolla Sign, Leon Bridges, Alex Banin, Sofaygo, and Weston Estate building bodies of work across various genres.

DANCE BREAK, his forthcoming EP, is the most direct version of himself. It pulls from house music and funk, and for the first time Davie brought other studio professionals into the process, working with producer Charley Damski and engineer Josh Block to finish what he had been circling for months. 

Hold Me is the clearest example of what happens when he fully commits to a feeling. He describes the song arriving in a dream, a groove he figured out immediately but spent months trying to complete. The solution he landed on was to make the lyrics feel the same way the beat does, to let the writing match the movement. He compares its low-slung energy to David Bowie's Fame, and the reference earns itself. It does not announce itself. It settles in, finds its rhythm, and stays. For an artist who has spent years building something entirely on his own terms, Hold Me feels like the moment where the vision and the execution finally arrive at the same place at the same time.