Jim Ghedi’s new sin­gle called The Hun­gry Child has just been released on Basin Rock.

A stark­ly bleak track, and more polit­i­cal than his pre­vi­ous work, Jim com­ments on the idea for The Hun­gry Child thus: “I want­ed to push the sound even more heav­ier, chaot­ic almost like cap­tur­ing the sound of destruc­tion, as things are col­laps­ing around us.

The idea is tak­en from a Ger­man poem from 1806–1808 trans­lat­ed by Judith Piepe, who enti­tled it ‘The Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Song’. It’s a sto­ry of a starv­ing child, who’s plead­ing for food and told to wait until it’s too late. The words res­onat­ed with Ghe­di who saw a nar­ra­tive of the oppressed being repeat­ed­ly ignored, unrecog­nised and left to starve.

Open­ing with the omi­nous sound of the drone, Ghedi’s vocals enter with heavy, lead­en and muf­fled dis­tor­tion, it’s an inhu­man sound that empha­sis­es the nar­ra­tive. There’s a wild­ness and a chill that per­vades this song, and it does­n’t let up. Jim Ghe­di has proved to be adept at dis­till­ing a sense of dra­ma, and this track cer­tain­ly falls into that category.

The track comes with a dark video shot in the Peak Dis­trict by close col­lab­o­ra­tor and direc­tor Jor­dan Car­roll. The bleak moors are the ide­al back­drop and accen­tu­ate the unset­tling nature of the story.

Jim Ghe­di will also release his first film sound­track for A24’s thriller The Death of Robin Hood, after being approached by direc­tor Michael Sarnos­ki. A dark adap­ta­tion of the 17th-cen­tu­ry folk-tale Robin Hood’s Death, the film is out in June 2026 and stars Hugh Jack­man, Jodie Com­er, Bill Skars­gård and more. Watch the trail­er.

Live dates:

6th June – New­cas­tle, Mar­ra­palooza Fes­ti­val
18th June – Heb­den Bridge, Trades Club
19th June – Stock­port, Strines Nightin­gale
20th June – Frome, The Tree House
21st June – Pen­ryn, Ver­dant Tap Room
23rd June – Pen­zance, Venue TBA
24th June – Lon­don, Horse Hos­pi­tal (w/Juni Habel)
25th June – Liv­er­pool, Kaz­imi­er Stock­room
26th June – Sheffield, Sid­ney & Matil­da (w/Juni Habel)
7th June – Der­by, Dubrek
28th June – Stock­ton, The Green Room
22nd August – Suf­folk, FolkEast Festival

Jim Ghe­di New sin­gle The Hun­gry Child on Basin Rock
Jim Ghe­di | Live dates