ABOUT THIS ITEM

The stunning, kaleidoscopic debut album from My Best Fiend, one of Warp’s newest signings, delivering a breathtaking journey through drugs, religion and psychedelic rock.

While the five members of My Best Fiend live in Brooklyn, the music they create resides somewhere else entirely - in a spacious, dreamlike world all its own. The nine tracks on ‘In Ghostlike Fading’ feel like reveries, mixing gorgeously atmospheric keyboards with grittier guitars and plaintive lead vocals.

On hallucinatory opening track, ‘Higher Palms’, My Best Fiend achieves a kind of modern, Phil Spector-like spirit, a somewhat woozier ‘Wall Of Sound’. Lead singer Fred Coldwell’s lyrics weave between decadence and penitence, compulsion and confession.

‘In Ghostlike Fading’ has a loose, impressionistic narrative flow – an undercurrent, really – that develops over the course of its nine tracks, culminating in the seven-minute-plus final track, ‘On The Shores Of The Infinite’, where one can finally, absolutely, glimpse some light at the end of the tunnel.

Integrated into the framework of ‘In Ghostlike Fading’, highly personal words become utterly universal sentiments. As Coldwell concludes, “It’s a kindred spirit vibe, a way of not feeling so alone, of keeping some of your ghosts alive.”

1. Higher Palms
2. Jesus Christ
3. ODVIP
4. One Velvet Day
5. In Ghostlike Fading
6. Cracking Eggs
7. Cool Doves
8. I'm Not Going Anywhere
9. On The Shores Of The Infinite