Richard Green works across an unusually wide range for a solo artist, moving between a completed neoclassical trilogy and now a run of electronic and rock-adjacent projects, all written, performed, and produced by himself in his home studio in Italy before handing things off to his sound engineer for mixing and mastering. “Purpose and Price” out November 14, 2025, sits on the rock and funk side of that split, and it’s set to appear on a second EP due later this year, following the more electronic-leaning “Electronic Therapy.”
The track pulls from a wide net: rock, hip hop, funk, and electronic textures with blues and jazz threaded underneath, and Green traces that eclecticism back to his teenage years spent learning guitar off Red Hot Chili Peppers records, an influence that shows up more in the song’s genre-hopping instinct than in any single riff or hook. The concept behind it is a heavier one than the funky groove might initially suggest. Green has said the idea came from a TV dialogue built around a single question, essentially asking what a person’s success actually costs them, and he’s built the track around that idea directly, treating ambition’s toll on a person’s character as close to a soul-selling bargain. That concept shows up in the production’s deliberate aggression, giving the song a harder edge than its funk and blues elements alone would suggest.
It’s a lot of ideas to fold into one track: rock energy, hip-hop rhythm, electronic texture, blues phrasing, and a genuinely weighty theme underneath it all, but that’s very much the point. Green has described his own range as his defining strength as an artist, working across styles that have little in common on paper, and “Purpose and Price” reads as a compact demonstration of that instinct rather than a single-genre exercise. The aggression baked into the mix keeps the track from feeling like a tidy genre collage; it plays more like Green working through a genuinely uncomfortable idea and letting the sound reflect that discomfort rather than smoothing it over.
With an EP built around similarly eclectic material due later this year, “Purpose and Price” plays like a solid preview of where Green’s sound is headed next: sprawling in influence, but united by a willingness to sit with a heavier idea than the groove initially lets on.
