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Jules Reidy

Ghost/Spirit

    Jules Reidy’s sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin’s fertile contemporary music scene. A wide-eyed imagination combined with technical mastery guide each work in Reidy’s extensive catalog, from solo guitar albums and collaborations with innovative peers, including recent works with claire rousay, Oren Ambarchi, Andrea Belfi and Sam Dunscombe to major commissions from JACK Quartet and Zinc & Copper. The songs of Ghost/Spirit collectively convey an astral sense of yearning and wonder, pushing towards transcendence. The album charts a deeply personal journey with love, spirituality and transformation expressed in fractal guitar figures, ethereal vocal vapors and rippling microtones.

    Reidy’s guitar approach unlocks the tonal and textural possibilities of the instrument from their use of alternate tunings and astute processing. The maximalist melodics of album opener “Every Day There’s a Sunset” are bolstered by rumbling bass samples from Andreas Dzialocha, Reidy’s collaborator in the duo Sun Kit. On “Satellite,” cello samples from Judith Hamann stretch out through the cosmos, orbited by spiraling finger-picked guitars, while stacked trombone chords echo out into the ether. Thundering drum samples from Berlin metal mainstay Sara Neidorf push the album to ecstatic peaks on “Every Day There’s a Sunrise,” fragmented rhythms breaking apart in the atmosphere. Field recordings of the Berlin S-Bahn recur throughout the album, another endless cycle of leaving and returning that shuttles beneath the album’s whirling tones.

    Ghost/Spirit captures the inherent power and agency in choosing to offer yourself up to the universe and let go, ego death and prayer rendered in incandescent sonics. Reidy’s inimitable skill as a guitarist, producer and composer is on full display, and when combined with the intensity of experience, the resulting album is a remarkable work of art.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Every Day There’s A Sunset
    2. Interlude I
    3. Satellite
    4. To Breathe Lightning
    5. Ghost
    6. Breaks
    7. Search Light
    8. Every Day There’s A Sunrise
    9. Spirit
    10. Maybe
    11. Interlude II
    12. Letter
    13. Splits The Light
    14. You Are Everywhere

    Colin Self

    Respite Levity For The Nameless Ghost In Crisis

      Followers of Self’s work will still find familiar sonic forms on 'r∞L4nGc', from galvanizing electronic experimentations to Self’s lofty, soaring voice, undiminished after years of relative silence. 'Busy Walks Into the Memory Palace' is assthrowing dance music for corporeal forms that don’t yet exist, making Self a different kind of time traveller, the track primed to be played thousands of years hence. On 'Dissumlato', it sounds as if Self has been sealed into a wayward spacecraft, a synthesizer and their voice their only company, performing for themselves and whomever else in the beyond might be listening to them. Attending to more earthly concerns, and the fraying queer communities that Self has nourished for many years, 'Gajo' deploys a 2-step beat, interweaving chamber orchestral manoeuvres and electronic vocal modulation. As they sing, “Something calling out to me from the other side/It’s my own choice to make within this life,” you hear Self contemplate the ecstatic terror of reaching into the unknown in one another, no space to shapeshift without letting down the barriers separating ourselves from one another in the first place.

      '∞', the album’s closing track, a nearly 11-minute suite (also released as lemniscate, a four-track EP to introduce Colin’s new music), is central to the album’s thematic core. The lemniscate, the formal name for the mathematical sign most of us know as the infinity symbol, has guided Self backwards and forwards through the endless quest to carry meaning from one realm to another. It’s a looping journey that requires immense humility and a willingness to shed the stability of the bounded self, instead opening to voices that cry out from a darkened corner, still too vulnerable to emerge in daylight.

      “The lemniscate begins with a prayer and darkness being pulled into a portal in which I have to sort of face death, or face loss and grief and sadness, to then kind of come out on the other side with some clarity,” Self says. “Instead of thinking of the darkness being this place of fear, it’s often in the shadows where the important things are happening. We can’t know [these spirits], or we can’t see them, but we have to believe that they exist.” Many spirits present themselves on the album, and while Self’s rapturous singing ability is the medium for these transmissions, listen closely and you might meet someone you never knew existed.


      TRACK LISTING

      1. Respite For The Tulpamancer
      2. Gajo
      3. Doll Park Doll Park
      4. Dissimulato
      5. Losing Faith
      6. {Canting}
      7. Busy Walks Into The Memory Palace
      8. Paraphrase Of A Shadow
      9. Riddlecraft
      10. Gaolbreaker’s Dream
      11. Tip The Ivy
      12. ∞

      Fresh from beasting the end-of-year charts with her ‘I Miss Your Love’ remix project, Ghost Assembly, aka Manchester DJ and writer Abigail Ward, is back with a double A-side: "RESIST! / I Keep on Making the Same Mistake".

      Laid down quickly and angrily after attending a demo in Manchester city centre, "RESIST!" aims to capture the galvanising spirit of protest and put it on wax. A 111bpm acid chugger that will leave dancefloors of an ALFOS or Optimo persuasion begging for more, this is uncompromising machine funk at its crudest.

      Duelling 303s twist around each other whilst a taut, snaking 707 groove underpins unexpected blasts of Arabic rhythm, almost as if DJ Pierre had remixed ‘Get UR Freak On’, relocating it to the Middle East. As a stuttering Harper Hay vocal sample urges us to RESIST!, the track climaxes with an ice cold acid house string coda banged out on a disobedient synth. Please note: the sub on this record may trouble your duodenum.

      The "Utter Kunt Mix" is a sparse and daring Sleng Teng-inspired avant-dub affair strictly for discerning dancefloors only. Improbably combining hints of the Mission Impossible theme, Les Négresses Vertes’ ‘Zobi La Mouche’ and the rough-hewn sampling of ‘Duck Rock’, this is a radiant obstacle in the path of the obvious. Warning: collectors of On-U, EBM and New Beat could experience a spate of nocturnal emissions upon purchasing this record.

      The A-side closes with a Bonus Beats version of the Utter Kunt Mix: a must-have DJ tool.

      Picking up the pace to 120, B-side cut, "I Keep on Making the Same Mistake" sees Ghost Assembly returning to her string-drenched sad banger comfort zone, pairing a chilly breakbeat with a bass riff reminiscent of Joey Beltram having a gutwrenching cry wank. Keening vocals supplied by Hazel Grove are chopped up, tormented and eventually hurled down a K-hole as the strings build and the drama escalates. When the credits roll on this cinematic masterpiece we hear a wistful French lesbian talking about 'borrowed bliss'. A future comedown classic; also sounds good slowed down to 33rpm.

      The E.P. signs off with a stunning string-a-pella that will linger long after the needle hits the run-out groove.

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Barry says: One of Manchester's favourite new producers returns with a follow up to the superb 'I Miss Your Love' on Ruf Kutz alll the way back in 2023. This time we get the thumping, resonant synth stabs and skittering drum machines of classic acid, chugging percussion and floating pads. Another heavy hitter, like you'd expect anything less.

      TRACK LISTING

      A. RESIST ! (Extended 12" Mix)
      A. RESIST ! (Utter Kunt Mix)
      A. RESIST ! (U.K Bonus Beats)
      AA. I KEEP ON MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE
      AA. STRING REPRISE

      Wilco

      A Ghost Is Born - 2025 Reissue

        'A Ghost Is Born' was originally released on June 22, 2004, debuting at No. 8 on the Billboard chart. The album, which Mehr calls ‘an eclectic array of dark ballads, upbeat pop songs, Krautrock chug, noise rock freakouts, and roots rock abandon,’ was widely acclaimed as one of 2004’s best, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NPR, NME, the Associated Press, The Wire, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and Uncut, among many others. The album earned the band its first Grammy, for Best Alternative Music Album. The album also won a Grammy for Best Recording Package.

        For the 'A Ghost Is Born' recording, Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Mikael Jorgensen; Jim O’Rourke, who mixed the band’s previous release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, co-produced the album with Wilco. Leroy Bach left Wilco at the completion of the sessions and the band announced the addition of two new members: Pat Sansone and Nels Cline. Sansone and Cline toured with Wilco to promote A Ghost Is Born and that lineup has remained unchanged since 2004. As Tweedy said to Mehr for his new liner note, “Making that record, and then finding this lineup, that was the start of something – of having a band that can play anything. That’s why, 20 years later, we’re still here and still going.”

        Wilco first began sessions for what would become 'A Ghost Is Born' in early 2002 at Chicago’s Soma E.M.S., where they had mixed 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'. Much of the album was tracked live in the studio with O’Rourke and engineer Chris Shaw. They also reunited there with engineer and soon-to-be-bandmate Mikael Jorgensen.

        At Soma, the band began sketching out music using Tweedy’s notebooks of lyrics, poetry, and prose. Mehr notes: ‘In between more traditional song tracking, the group would engage in a series of conceptual improvisations in the studio. These musical experiments, broadly known as ‘Fundamentals’… were part of what Kotche said was ‘an attempt to search for a new group identity. To see what we could make this band into.’’

        In the fall of 2003, the band relocated to New York to finish recording at Sear Sound. “It seemed like the band needed to get out of Chicago, get out of the working mode they’d been in, and only be thinking about making a record,” O’Rourke told Mehr. There, playing together in the corner of a large studio, the album began to take its final shape.

        Emerging from a period of addiction and rehab, Tweedy discussed how he feels about 'A Ghost Is Born' in retrospect. As he told Mehr, “I was worried the album was going to feel like something dark and not me anymore. But the album was ahead of me as a person. It was the part of me that I was trying to preserve – enthusiastic and furious about the world, as well as open and loving. I reached that in the music, before I could get there emotionally on my own.”


        TRACK LISTING

        9LP & 4CD Box Set/9CD Box Set Tracklist:
        A Ghost Is Born
        1. At Least That’s What You Said
        2. Hell Is Chrome
        3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
        4. Muzzle Of Bees
        5. Hummingbird
        6. Handshake Drugs
        7. Wishful Thinking
        8. Company In My Back
        9. I’m A Wheel
        10. Theologians
        11. Less Than You Think
        12. The Late Greats

        dBpm: Outtakes/Alternates 1
        13. At Least That’s What You Said (8/13/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        14. Hell Is Chrome (10/5/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        15. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (9/28/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        16. Muzzle Of Bees (7/15/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        17. Hummingbird (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        18. Handshake Drugs (11/13/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        19. Wishful Thinking (11/1/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        20. Company In My Back (2/8/03 Hothouse-St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia)
        21. I’m A Wheel (August 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
        22. Theologians (3/19/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        23. Less Than You Think (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        24. The Late Greats (7/19/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        25. Kicking Television (3/18/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        26. The High Heat (2/5/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        27. Panthers (March 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
        28. Diamond Claw (3/21/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        29. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard (June 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
        30. More Like The Moon (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        31. Improbable Germany (10/7/03 SOMA-Chicago)

        Unstitched: Outtakes/Alternates 2
        32. Handshake Drugs (First Version) (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        33. Hummingbird (February 2002 Recorded Live During Tracking At SOMA-Chicago)
        34. The High Heat (2/4/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        35. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (February 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
        36. Diamond Claw (March 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
        37. Muzzle Of Bees (October 2003 Sear Sound-NYC)
        38. Like A Stone (11/10/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        39. Leave Me (Like You Found Me) (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        40. Losing Interest (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        41. Old Maid (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        42. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (August 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
        43. Panthers (October 2003 Sear Sound-NYC)
        44. Muzzle Of Bees (7/16/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        45. Diamond Claw (10/9/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        46. Losing Interest (7/20/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        47. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (October 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
        48. The Thanks I Get (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        49. Two Hat Blues (March 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
        50. Improbable Germany (January 2002 Pre-Production Loft Session-Chicago)

        The Hook At The Wang (Live October 1, 2004 At The Wang Center-Boston, MA)
        51. Muzzle Of Bees
        52. Company In My Back
        53. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
        54. A Shot In The Arm
        55. Hell Is Chrome
        56. Handshake Drugs
        57. Jesus, Etc.
        58. Hummingbird
        59. I’m Always In Love
        60. At Least That’s What You Said
        61. Ashes Of American Flags
        62. Theologians
        63. I’m The Man Who Loves You
        64. Poor Places
        65. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
        66. She’s A Jar
        67. A Magazine Called Sunset
        68. Kingpin
        69. The Late Greats
        70. I’m A Wheel
        71. Via Chicago
        72. California Stars
        73. Christ For President

        Fundamentals (On CD In The LP Boxset)
        74. Fundamental 1
        75. Fundamental 2
        76. Fundamental 3
        77. Fundamental 4
        78. Fundamental 5
        79. Fundamental 6
        80. Fundamental 7


        2CD Tracklist:
        CD1 - A Ghost Is Born
        1. At Least That’s What You Said
        2. Hell Is Chrome
        3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
        4. Muzzle Of Bees
        5. Hummingbird
        6. Handshake Drugs
        7. Wishful Thinking
        8. Company In My Back
        9. I’m A Wheel
        10. Theologians
        11. Less Than You Think
        12. The Late Greats

        CD2 - DBpm: Outtakes/Alternates
        13. At Least That’s What You Said (8/13/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        14. Hell Is Chrome (10/5/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        15. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (9/28/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        16. Muzzle Of Bees (7/15/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        17. Hummingbird (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        18. Handshake Drugs (11/13/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        19. Wishful Thinking (11/1/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        20. Company In My Back (2/8/03 Hothouse-St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia)
        21. I’m A Wheel (August 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
        22. Theologians (3/19/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        23. Less Than You Think (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
        24. The Late Greats (7/19/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        25. Kicking Television (3/18/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        26. The High Heat (2/5/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        27. Panthers (March 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
        28. Diamond Claw (3/21/03 SOMA-Chicago)
        29. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard (June 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
        30. More Like The Moon (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago)
        31. Improbable Germany (10/7/03 SOMA-Chicago)


        2LP Tracklist:
        1. At Least That’s What You Said
        2. Hell Is Chrome
        3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
        4. Muzzle Of Bees
        5. Hummingbird
        6. Handshake Drugs
        7. Wishful Thinking
        8. Company In My Back
        9. I’m A Wheel
        10. Theologians
        11. Less Than You Think
        12. The Late Greats

        Inca Babies

        Ghost Mechanic Nine

          Ghost mechanic Nine is the ninth Studio album by Inca babies, it comprises 9 tracks. The incas are back with a powerful new collection of tunes taking their listeners back to a sound that is rawer and spikier, and reminiscent of their early days in the 80s.

          ‘Ghost Mechanic 9’, is the title track and second single, it is a surging highway groove, that drives us on with a rumbling bass line into the night. Driving for the sake of it driving to escape. Headlights in the dark: red and blue dash lights; wondering why anyone but you is driving this late. The ghost on the highway, the grease-ball mechanic who says you’ll keep going for miles and miles. It’s number 9, the ninth Inca’s album the first of nine songs on the album.

          The rush of energy from the first track sets the tone for the rest of the Album which continues their explosive exploration of Goth punk and death rock jazz/blues.

          Singer and Guitarist Harry Stafford has written an album that explores the essence of the 80s deathrock vibe, with a tribute to the strong riffing and cool, deadpan delivery of the dark wave scene at the time.

          Aided again by the wise head of Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey) as Producer at 6Db Studios, in Salford the power and depth of sound this time around is a truly wonderful thing.

          ‘Insect Symphony’ is a Stooges lead riff tribute to all those bands that are no longer with us.

          ‘Spacewalk’: is the first single from the Album and is a rockabilly Sci-fi laser beam about the wonders of the Space age. From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 to the mega cities of Blade Runner and the fact that when I was a kid, in the far-off future, 2024 was supposed to be a silver suited, hover car space age with a completely automated world on the moon. Clearly this was rubbish so instead it’s time to reintroduce Rockabilly to the world’s consciousness.

          The inclusion of a longer and remixed version of fan’s favourite ‘Opium Den’ now called ‘Opium Dub’ is a masterful example of the sonic dexterity of Simon ‘Ding’ Archer at the dub controls.

          TRACK LISTING


          1. Ghost Mechanic 9 04:08
          2. Insect Symphony 04:00
          3. Augustus Tympan 04:11
          4. I'm Stayin' Put 03:26
          5. The Exhaust Of Broken Dreams 04:58
          6. Spacewalk 04:04
          7. Mercury Is Down 04:04
          8. Deck 04:05
          9. Opium Dub 06:47

          Gloria Jones / R Dean Taylor

          Tainted Love / There's A Ghost In My House

            New on Outta Sight, an official reissue of the Gloria Jones classic “Tainted Love”. The song originates from 1964, then made a household favourite from 1981 when made a hit by Soft Cell. Gloria’s 1965 release in the USA was originally a B-side to a non-hit, and it took ten years for it to be discovered in the UK where it was played on the Northern Soul scene. It’s the Motown-like rhythms and arrangements that made it relevant. Gloria re-recorded it herself in 1976, and while still not a hit, the song in NME’s Top 500 greatest of all time and Gloria dubbted ‘The Queen Of Northern Soul’. She was in a relationship with Marc Bolan at the time of his fatal accident.

            This single is coupled with another northern soul favourite, the Holland/Dozier/Holland song “There’s A Ghost In My House” by Motown artist R. Dean Taylor. It was originally recorded in 1966 and reached No.3 in the UK Charts (1974). It was covered in their own inimitable style by The Fall in 1987.

            STAFF COMMENTS

            Laura says: Two absolute killers here. I'm buying this for when I (in my dreams) buy a jukebox - a definite double A-side gem this.

            TRACK LISTING

            Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
            R Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House

            Iron & Wine

            Ghost On Ghost - 2024 Reissue

              Ghost on Ghost is Iron & Wine’s fifth full-length record and was originally released in 2013. The album found Sam Beam, the band’s principle member, working once again with longtime associate Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone). The record marks the last time the two would work together on a journey that began with the bands second record, Endless Numbered Days. It also marked a shift for the two from working in Chicago to setting up in New York City. The idea behind the move was to tap into the creative musical community New York had to offer.

              The line-up that helped bring Beam’s vision for Ghost on Ghost to life included a who’s who from the jazz community as well as the deep wells of outside art including Steve Bernstein (Sex Mob/Levon Helm Band), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio), Brian Blade, Curtis Fowlkes (The Jazz Passengers), Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan Band), Marika Hughes, Briggan Kraus, Maxim Moston, Tony Scherr (The Lounge Lizards), Doug Wieselman, Kenny Wolleson (Tom Watis/John Zorn) and Anja Wood. The level of talent on Ghost on Ghost far surpassed anything Beam ever imagined when he first began writing songs as Iron and Wine on his four-track.

              Upon completing the Ghost on Ghost , Beam jokingly referred to the recording process as “a reward to myself” after years of chasing sounds by himself. Being able have the finest in musicians in New York City perform on the record, elevating these songs into places he never imagined Beam stated, “it was an honor -- really inspiring.”

              Beam stated at the time that Ghost on Ghost takes it’s inspiration from records like Nilsson Schmilsson, Ram, Mingus Moves and What’s Going On. The record they all crafted is warm and inviting and was unlike anything up to that point in the Iron & Wine catalog.


              TRACK LISTING

              Side A
              Caught In The Briars
              The Desert Babbler
              Joy
              Low Light Buddy Of Mine
              Grace For Saints And Ramblers
              Grass Windows
              Singers And The Endless Song

              Side B
              Sundown (Back In The Briars)
              Winters Prayers
              New Mexico’s No Breeze
              Lovers’ Revolution
              Baby Center Stage

              One of the smash hits of last year, Ghost Assembly's more-garage-than-garage burner 'I Miss Your Love' is back for 1993 with a pair of deadly remixes and another world-building insert to break your heart.

              Also known as one of Manchester's finest DJs/curators/all round top humans Abigail Ward, her debut release (!), the original Ghost Assembly 12", dropped a year ago, sold out almost instantly and is yours off discogs right now, for £100+.

              But wait - we've got some shark repellent here in the form of a brand new 12 featuring the all-important club mix together with 2 phenomenal remixes that take things in very different directions.

              After Abigail wowed all her mates with her hitherto-unheard production GENIUS, her more eager pals were quick to hit her up for some stems so they could have a go at a remix. Abs is better connected than most and has better taste than us all so it's no surprise that we got some top-shelf efforts returned to us.

              Keen to elaborate on the world she'd expertly created with the first 12 - and its accompanying insert, masterfully telling the story of a queer club in 80's Manchester; a more brutal time, long before the Pink Pound - we now fast forward 5 years and who better to capture the vibe of the North in 93 than Red Laser's hardcore OG...DJ ABSOLUTELY SHIT who teleports us from the Jive Club to Bowlers with 2 double doves straight up the bum and earns himself the prime A1 position on the record, cut loud and heavy for maximum impact.

              Flip over and you get the classic Club mix once more and then there's a B2 for the ages - double legends BRIAN NOT BRIAN and PIERS HARRISON team up with a load of hardware and dub everything right out creating a bonafide Red Seal Roller, channelling On-U to bring a remix that if it actually dropped in 93 might have saved us all from Trip Hop.

              Don't forget the insert - sealed with a loving kiss is a letter that will make you cry. It's not addressed to you though, so will you be a nosey parker and crack it open or will you leave it be so you can shark the whole thing on Discogs (trust me no amount of money you get for doing this will match the value of opening the letter).

              This is strictly limited again, it's gonna be the hit of the year yet again, just be grateful you didn't have to wait five actual years for it...!!

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Matt says: Second lap for one of the biggest records of 2023. Now with added remixes from DJ Absolutely Shit and Brian Not Brian & Piers Harrison who each impart plenty of character into their individual tangents.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. I Miss Your Love (dj Absolutely Shit Remix)
              2. I Miss Your Love (original Club Mix)
              3. I Miss Your Love (brian Not Brian & Piers Harrison Disco Dub)

              Ghost Dubs

              Damaged

                Ghost Dubs, real name Michael Fiedler, aka Jah Schulz, announces a rebirth with 'Damaged', his first album for The Bug's PRESSURE label. Having recently dropped two criminally overlooked, experimental dub LPs, with his 'Dub Over Science' series, the German producer/bass specialist, now stretches his own parameters of outwardness still further, with these twelve fresh explorations of dub deviance.

                For those who feel the fusion of dub techno and ambient drone had creatively ended with the demise of the short lived, Berlin based Chain Reaction label. Ghost Dubs now upgrades and extends that legendary blueprint's abstract methodology even further and deeper, floating away upon a wonderfully warm sea of hiss and static bliss. This is dub so atomized that it disintegrates within your eardrums. Its music, where the machines take over and virtually all traces of humanity are erased. But thankfully, the warmest soul still oozes seductively from the pores of Fiedler's robo riddims. Relentlessly hypnotic, seriously sedated, 'Damaged' celebrates the point of departure within its mesmerising low-end grooves.

                Album opener 'Chemical', provides an opiated slo-mo skank, which sounds like Plastikman's 'Consumed' era pulsations drenched heavily in sub aquatic fx. A triumph of surface noise surfing and sub-woofer testing relentlessness, it provides the perfect intro to this compellingly immersive album. For batty shakers and headtrippers alike, there's added thrills aplenty, as Ghost Dub's richter scale tremor rhythms remain impressively massive, and the atmospheric depths of 'Damaged' appear tantalisingly oceanic. Throughout the duration of the dreamy selection, there is an obsessive balance of bewitching ambience and heavyweight bassbin shaking.

                The lead single 'Thin Line' itself provides a missing link between African Headcharge's early percussive body probes and Rhythm & Sound's addictive radiance, with the slightest hint of Burial's doomed romantic hauntology added for good taste. Alternately, and no less gracefully, 'Dub Lobotomy' bizarrely resembles Miles Davis 'Get Up with it' chopped, screwed, and relocated to a futuristic Kingston Town. Impressive indeed, Fiedler's mastery of live dubbing on his mixing desk shines accross the duration, and gives the album an improvised edge, and sense of peripheral chaos.

                Elsewhere, spooked steppers ('Hot Wired'), haunting house ('True to life') and 4th World psychogeography ('Undone'), combine to ensure there is a forever changing mixture of flavours percolating within the admirable consistency of the overall sound. With a tip of the cap, and nod of the head to Pole ('Second Thoughts'), it’s no surprise then that PRESSURE would then turn to the great, Berlin based producer Stefan Betke, to master/cut this collection at his infamous Scape mastering room. And a fine job he did too, as high quality sound and levels are definitely maintained throughout.

                If you like your melodies submerged, your dub narcotic, your basslines obese, and your beats evaporating, 'Damaged' provides the perfect prescription and entry point into Ghost Dub's spectral soundworld.

                STAFF COMMENTS

                Barry says: Bristling, subsonic pressure and machinated dub percussion, slowly evolving harmonics working their way into the pieces through determined writhing syncopation and noisy, gritty oscillation. It's a hypnotic and exciting sound world, and one of the great examples of modern German dub techno. Stefan Betke / Dave Sumner fans take note.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Chemical
                2. The Regulator
                3. Dub Lobotomy
                4. Hot Wired
                5. Thin Line
                6. Second Thoughts
                7. True To Life
                8. Dub Battle
                9. Soul Craft
                10. Undone
                11. Dub Simulation
                12. Circles / Lines

                Daniel Davies

                Ghost Of The Heart

                  In the last decade, Daniel Davies has become a lauded composer of atmospheric, synth-heavy instrumental music—for film and TV scores, alongside John Carpenter on the director’s Lost Themes albums, and on solo releases like Signals and Spies. But in his previous musical life, Davies was a rocker, touring all over the world with heavy bands like Year Long Disaster and Karma to Burn. After setting rock music aside to focus on his soundtrack and instrumental work, the multi-instrumentalist has found himself falling back in love with loud guitars over the past couple of years.

                  Ghost of the Heart, the first full-length alt-rock album Davies has ever released under his own name, captures the excitement of that rediscovered love. After a decade of making music that either had to match a filmed image or create a mental one, he sounds liberated by the concrete, reliable logic of verse/chorus/ verse. The songs on Ghost of the Heart don’t fit neatly into any one subgenre: they’re moody, heavy, and a little proggy, but with a strong pop sensibility and lots of melody. The album divulges Davies’ affinity for hooky, forward-thinking bands like Radiohead and Blur, but more than anything, Ghost of the Heart feels natural, like he’s tapping back into something fundamental about himself as a musician. “My first love is writing rock songs,” Davies says. “It just felt like the right time to get back to it.”

                  Ghost of the Heart is a special album for Davies. It sees him returning to his origins in rock music, but it also couldn’t have been made without the lessons of his time in the film world. In the truest sense, it’s a career-defining work, one that showcases everything he’s learned in his decades as a musician. It reveals a door that, now opened, can take Davies anywhere he wants to go.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. I Know Why
                  2. Presence On The Hill
                  3. In To You
                  4. It Takes A Lot
                  5. Ghost Of The Heart
                  6. Still The Servant
                  7. Big Crush
                  8. Wait
                  9. Those Eyes 

                  Ghost Woman

                  Ghost Woman

                    Ghost Woman’s blissfully hypnotic world is the creation of melodic maniac, Evan John Uschenko. Beating the odds of life as a busy touring musician, salvaging and replacing his instruments from burned down rehearsal spaces, van break-ins and far too many relocations to list, Uschenko has transformed his lifelong habit of homespun sonic exploration into a sensory ‘mix and match’ experience destined for the main stage. “When I record songs I tend not to approach them with any preconceived idea, I take a seat, tune the guitar and enjoy myself. It’s always been like that for me. If it don’t turn you on, what’s the point?” Evan’s sonic and literal adventures as a touring multi-instrumentalist with songwriter/producer/guitarist Michael Rault saw him share international stages with the likes of Jacco Gardner, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and The Mild High Club; Who unwittingly paved the way for Ghost Woman’s inevitable incarnation. “Having the opportunity to witness those groups perform was inspiring to say the least. Especially Gizz and Jacco. The attention to detail, professionalism as a touring act and the extra effort put into creating a killer live show doesn’t go unnoticed. It’s a calibre I’m just not used to where I’m from.” “When the tours were wrapped, I got home and immediately started writing music. And music with a live show in mind” Ghost Woman’s upcoming self-titled LP brims with self-produced and self-performed Anatolian sounds and lo-fi hooks. Subscribing to the school of authenticity Uschenko seemingly shares with rebellious new-psych classmates Kurt Vile or The Black Angels, Ghost Woman takes its inspiration largely from groups like Can, Beak, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, and The Firesign Theatre. do.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. All The Time
                    2. Do You
                    3. Dead & Gone
                    4. Along
                    5. Clockwork
                    6. Behind Your Eyes
                    7. All Your Love
                    8. Jreaming
                    9. Good
                    10. Comes On

                    Ghost Funk Orchestra

                    A Trip To The Moon

                      Coming off the heels of 2022's A New Kind of Love, A Trip To The Moon sees Ghost Funk Orchestra diving even deeper in the worlds of film music, exotica, and psychedelic surf rock. The aim is to create a layered and collaged listening experience with more elements than you could possibly pick out in a single listen.

                      The guitars are fuzzy and flooded with spring reverb, and the horns are arranged in a studio big band fashion. It's full of big compositions with garage rock attitude.

                      Influences range everywhere from Eddie Palmieri and Esquivel to The Lively Ones, Dusty Springfield, and War. The tracks are tied together by real recorded transmissions from the Apollo moon missions. The concept for the album is a story about a woman stranded on earth by her cosmonaut partner, left to ponder his whereabouts and whether or not he'll make it back from the cosmos alive.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      Opening
                      Eyes Of Love
                      Where To?
                      To The Moon!
                      Achluo
                      Nova
                      Helios
                      Into The Abyss
                      Again
                      A Solar Wind
                      Space Walk
                      Casadastra
                      A Rare View
                      Totality
                      Infinite Dar

                      Ghost

                      Temple Stone - 2024 Reissue

                        The return of holy sounds of Ghost, with the long-awaited reissue of their first three releases: Ghost (s/t), Second Time Around, and Temple Stone are back on vinyl, twenty-five years since they were last in print. These first three Ghost titles were originally released by P.S.F. on CD in 1990, 1992 and 1994, respectively, radiating enigma and energy in palpable waves with their original sound. After the acclaim that greeted Drag City’s 1996 US release of Lama Rabi Rabi, they quickly reissued all three on vinyl — and they quickly went out of print! The first two studio albums, each one an iteration of Ghost’s unique lysergic folk music, were followed by the monolithic “live in various places” happening of Temple Stone, which raised the trippiness levels considerably. But this was only the end of the beginning. In the twenty year sweep of Ghost history, these first three releases qualify as embryonic early Ghost — sort of like a German Os Mutantes (or perhaps a Brazilian Amon Düül). Clearly inspired by various forms of transcendental music throughout history, Ghost created a new syncretic psychedelia with these albums, mixing the texture and vibe of multinational forms of traditional music, with strummed antique stringed instruments and the haunting wail of a recorder on top of their heavy beats and guitars. The considerable depth of this approach was explored through 2014 over another five Ghost LPs, as well as the further explorations to the present day of leader Masaki Batoh, as a solo artist and with The Silence, Damon and Naomi, Helena Espvall and most recently, nehan.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. Moungod Radiant Youth
                        2. Guru In The Echo
                        3. Under The Sun
                        4. Moungod Asleep
                        5. Freedom
                        6. Rakshu
                        7. Blood Red River
                        8. Orange Sunshine
                        9. Giver's Chant
                        10. Sun Is Tangging

                        The Focus Group

                        Hey Let Loose Your Love

                          Pieced together with musty samples from children’s exercise records, vintage drama, clunky British jazz and library records, this is an archaeology of emotion, an exploration of the power of not only childhood memories, but of the collective unconscious.

                          Julian House’s own The Focus Group; oddly assembled sampledelic collages, stitched together from fragments of library cues and forgotten soundtracks. A beautiful, unhinged stream of consciousness that seems to prod at buried memories

                          REVIEWS

                          Julian Houses's Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the '70s: its a condensed memory of that decade's daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          1. Icicle Wheel
                          2. You Do Not See Me
                          3. Clockbell
                          4. Echo Release
                          5. Xylophone Signal
                          6. Modern Harp
                          7. Inside The Rubber Box
                          8. Lifting Away
                          9. Today’s Rhythm People
                          10. Hey Let Loose Your Love
                          11. String Sine Romance
                          12. The Moon Ladder
                          13. Planning For Urban Green
                          14. Swinging Phantom
                          15. The Thre
                          16. Jam-jar Carnival
                          17. Baroque Face
                          18. The Leaving
                          19. Reflected Message

                          Dave Clarkson

                          A Pocket Guide To Dream Land: Faded Fairgrounds And Coastal Ghost Towns Of The British Isles

                            Following previous albums exploring British coastal quicksands, shorelines, caves and forests, Dave Clarkson takes his recorder into faded seaside towns and fairgrounds (including Rhyl, New Brighton, Blackpool, Porthcawl, Northumberland, Margate and Hastings) and applies his production technique to the results. Some tracks are melodic and rhythmic while others are more desolate, capturing the unique fading atmosphere for the locations. Music was generated from the source sounds he recorded of penny falls, onboard rides, fairground organs, demolition noise, electrics and location ambience. One track (Spectral Pier Ballroom) is a spliced and stripped composite of three separate old musical recordings from his family archive, featuring his late father, grandmother and grandfather.

                            Contains natural source sound ingredients, some left pure, some processed, some mangled, some untangled. Field recordings at funfairs and coastal ghost towns, plus voices, instrumentation and electronics.

                            Location recordings plus composition, production, mastering, photography, sleeve design, packaging and coordination by Dave Clarkson at Cavendish House studios between December 2021 and September 2022.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            1. Organ Donor 00:48
                            2. Rollercoaster Ghost 04:54
                            3. Illuminations (Dirty Electricity) 05:54
                            4. Sizzling Hot Dogs And Burnt Onions 02:54
                            5. Spectral Pier Ballroom 05:34
                            6. Penny Arcade In The Rain 05:18
                            7. Tiny Lights (Magic In A Child's Eyes) 03:12
                            8. Coastal Ghost Towns 04:06
                            9. Memories And Loss 06:04
                            10. Organ Transplant 02:44

                            Stuart Argabright (Ike Yard) revives his legendary NYC hip hop unit, Death Comet Crew, for a landmark debut album release on the burgeoning Diagonal Records. Titled in tribute to the group's fallen member, Rammellzee (R.I.P), 'Ghost Among The Crew' rocks up a feral blend of hip hop, industrial and jazz fusion with a furtive cyberpunk swagger, marking their first output since 'This Is Riphop' for Mike Simonetti's Troubleman Unlimited label nearly 2 decade's ago.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            1. Me Czar Of The Magyars
                            2. Deep Space Woman
                            3. Drag Racing
                            4. Moons On Titan's Seas
                            5. Let The Clubs Ring
                            6. One On Ones
                            7. Run Map
                            8. Ignition Spark
                            9. Crustacean Live

                            Olivia Jean

                            Raving Ghost

                              Raving Ghost is an album populated by mysterious characters in various states of danger – cursed lovers, doomed souls, women deliriously haunted by unseen forces. Over the course of its 11 spellbinding tracks, Olivia Jean amplifies that drama with her wildly melodic take on garage rock, handling each riff with the power and precision she’s previously shown as a member of the Black Belles and as an in-demand session/touring musician who has played with legends like Wanda Jackson.

                              Featuring backing from such top musicians as My Morning Jacket keyboardist Bo Koster, Jellyfish co-founder Roger Joseph Manning Jr, and drummers Carla Azar (T-Bone Burnett, Nikki Lane) and Patrick Keeler (The Raconteurs, The Afghan Whigs), the album is a feverish collision of goth- punk, power-pop, and classic garage, charged with an energy so intense that the speakers to several of Valentine Recording Studios’ vintage amps ended up blowing out during the sessions. A stunning evolution of the retro-surf sound featured on Olivia Jean’s critically acclaimed past solo work, Raving Ghost ultimately proves the most magnificently heavy and mesmerizing output yet from an endlessly fascinating artist. 

                              STAFF COMMENTS

                              Martin says: Olivia Jean presents a sleek, enjoyable mid-point between lo-fi garage rock and melodic goth-pop, all topped with Jean's psychedelic vocals. Brilliantly produced and presented too, classic Third Man.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              SIDE 1
                              1. Raving Ghost
                              2. Too Late
                              3. Spider
                              4. Trouble
                              5. I Need You
                              SIDE 2
                              1. Ditch
                              2. Fun
                              3. Fate
                              4. Orinoco Flow
                              5. Godmother
                              6. Don't Leave

                              The Focus Group

                              Sketches And Spells

                                The Focus Group is the recording alias for Ghost Box co-founder and well respected graphic designer and film maker Julian House. This debut album was first release in 2005 on a burn to order CD-R. Now packaged in a 4 panel digipack with the original sleeve art by Julian House that established the rules for the primary Ghost Box artwork layout. It’s a design grid that the label has continuously revisited and tinkered with ever since. 

                                Ghost Car

                                Truly Trash

                                  Ghost Car, the London-based international punk quartet, have announced their debut album ‘Truly Trash’ following their signing to One Little Independent Records. A riotous, quick-witted collection of 11 garage-rock bangers.

                                  The album provides Ghost Car with a platform to rage against political injustices, as their unified battle cries attack patriarchal inequality, homophobia, racism and toxic relationships. ‘Truly Trash’ is a call to reclaim autonomy and to revolt against the powers that uphold an archaic nationalist system.

                                  Right out the gate ‘Truly Trash’ makes its intentions clear. Riff-heavy ballad ‘Terrible Feelings’ rises in raw intensity as group harmonies build toward a shoegaze noise-out, while follow-up ‘Selfish, Spoiled’ uses frenzied synth to drag the sound in a 60’s psych direction. Call-and-response gang vocals permeate the entire record as back-to-back choruses keep energy levels at maximum, evident on ‘Mechanical Soul’ which boasts huge glam guitars and caustic drums of pure fury.

                                  Of the eruptive ‘Basta’ singer/guitarist Maeve Henry tells us “It was written from the perspective of someone commenting on being a queer woman being happy with her sexuality. We’ve had a lot of men at our gigs in the past sexualising or infantilising us, so this is a massive f*ck you to them”. Singer/bassist Cece Corapi expands “It felt important to reiterate the fact that your sexuality doesn’t define the type of person you are. There is still a lot of biphobia around, even in certain queer scenes, and a perception that it’s not a valid sexual identity. It’s important to call this out”.

                                  The LP continues with the punchy Riot grrrl of ‘Embleton Road’ and ‘Clown Town’ which show the band at their sarcastic best, oozing B52s and Delta 5 swagger with jaunty B-movie melodies. The latter of which makes comment on the circus of errors by the Conservative government, with particular focus on Boris Johnson, following Brexit. With band members hailing from England, Ireland, Italy and Spain, Ghost Car are keen advocators for freedom of movement, a belief only strengthened following the events in Ukraine. Cece explains that this “opened our eyes to the consequences of borders even more, when considering a country caught between two opposing powers (Russia and the EU/Nato) and the devastation this leads to. I think it’s important that we become more aware of these issues, but we need to make sure that we don’t stop there and always look at it from a more internationalist point of view. And to consider what that means for everyone.”

                                  Grungy pop-punk anthem and lead single ‘Sex’ channels the likes of Stiff Little Fingers and The Undertones, mixing with the bands amalgamated influences from 60's girl groups like The Ronettes and The Shangri Las to the explosive rock n’ roll of The Runaways. ‘Conch Pearl’ and ‘Sushi Addict’ deal in distorted, jumped-up chaos, and ‘No History’ is about our reliance on digital technology and a reminder to try to live life spontaneously. Album finale ‘Truly Trash’ is a defiant message seeped in ethereal, doomy layers of ferocity. Singer/keyboardist/thereminist Clara Bleda’s closing comment; “F*ck Trump, f*ck Boris, f*ck the right wing”, while Maeve adds; “F*ck the DUP too”.

                                  “This album is our way to express what bothers us, from personal interactions to international politics. We wanted to explore different themes in a simple way so that they could be accessible to everyone.”

                                  Originally the album was due to be released by Burger Records, however as accounts of sexual assault and exploitation of women by associates of the label came to light the band pulled out of the planned release. As activists for feminism and members of the LGBTQ+ community, Ghost Car practice what they preach, and aim to spread their mantra of inclusivity and equal rights as loud as possible.

                                  Ghost Car aim to utilize their diversity to explore different writing styles, while expressing themes of openness and empowerment. They’ve been championed by the likes of Mickey Bradley (Undertones), Skin and Du Blonde, and were deeply inspired by the late Lyndell Mansfield. They’ve also grown as performers supporting the likes of Shonen Knife, Amyl and The Sniffers and Beth Ditto, while remaining a London headline mainstay. 


                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. Terrible Feelings
                                  2. Selfish, Spoiled
                                  3. Mechanical Soul
                                  4. Basta
                                  5. Embleton Road
                                  6. Clown Town
                                  7. Sex
                                  8. Conch Pearl
                                  9. Sushi Addict
                                  10. No History
                                  11. Truly Trash 

                                  Ghost Orchard

                                  Rainbow Music

                                    RIYL: The Microphones, Bon Iver, Lomelda, Vegyn, Hovvdy, Dijon.

                                    Follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed ‘bunny’

                                    Sam Hall’s new album as ghost orchard, ‘rainbow music’, is a collage of patience and meditation. It’s filled with nuances as quietly imperceptible as the seasons, or the profound movement of time, where one day looking back you realize your whole spirit has shifted. Where 2019’s critically revered ‘bunny’ was a love letter to a romantic relationship, ‘rainbow music’ documents the culmination of Hall’s first personal experience with loss in several forms. At the end of 2020, his longterm childhood pet passed away, and with it the last continuing threads of familiarity between being a kid and adulthood. Still based in the Grand Rapids, Michigan town he’d grown up in, the static ease of familiar living seemed to be coming apart at the seams, as friends moved on to bigger cities, relationships shapeshifted and in a short period of time, another kitten he’d adopted passed away prematurely, leaving Hall to question the trajectory in which he himself was headed.

                                    Like “songs in the key of life,” the title ‘rainbow music’ refers to the myriad of colors and qualities within Hall that are refracted throughout. It’s a symbolization of hope and the aftermath, the flickering light at the end of the tunnel (or “when a rainbow shows up after a big storm”). “Wish I could have fun anymore,” Hall ruminates on “dancing”, as well as confessing he “wish he made more upbeat bangers.” But reality packs more of a punch, and this collection of songs sees him finally be at peace with the current state of affairs. Relatable to anyone who has contemplated what it means to settle down, or even just catch your breath in an era where anguish is commonplace, the release of ‘rainbow music’ is a happy ending in its own right, a marker of survival that remains close to the bone.

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    01. Rest
                                    02. Jessamine
                                    03. Cursive
                                    04. Maisy
                                    05. Cut
                                    06. Soot
                                    07. Memory Storage
                                    08. Dancing
                                    09. Bruise
                                    10. Sweet Song
                                    11. Comfort (Rainbow)

                                    Ghost Funk Orchestra

                                    A New Kind Of Love

                                      For Fans Of Temples, Allah-Las, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Khruangbin, David Axelrod. Each song on Ghost Funk Orchestra's 3rd album, A New Kind of Love, due to be released on Colemine Records … 2022, resonates like the soundtrack to a scene from an imaginary movie. The music could score a romantic drama, an action thriller, or a modern twist on a classic film noir. The spare, cascading vocals accentuate the lush instrumental orchestrations composed, performed, arranged and produced by multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum, whose latest brainchild was conceived and conceptualized during The Great Pause of 2020, a time of tension, bewilderment and isolation.

                                      Evoking the grooviness of an era which preceded his arrival on earth, Applebaum draws upon sonic devices of mid-century exotica and the succinct but dense arranging style of the leaders of the pop orchestras which dominated the hit parades of the 60s and early 70s. He blends impressions of this bygone era with an expression of his actual experiences as a young filmmaker coming of age in the 21st century, citing influences such as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and Antibalas. A New Kind of Love encompasses a reverence for the past without attempting to recreate it. In the tradition of the "production forward" discographies of such record makers as David Axelrod and the Mizell Brothers, it's easy to visualize Applebaum as a "mad doctor" figure, hunkered down in a studio channeling this musical representation of his inner world into the 12 compositions which make up A New Kind of Love.

                                      His writing stretches his psyche to explore a terrain in which to capture emotional notes of love going well, love gone sour, manifesting love songs based in ghostly affairs. While the studio is obviously a wondrous happy place of experimentation and creativity for Applebaum, he's a band guy too (having actually fronted punk outfit The Mad Doctors). Applebaum has the wherewithal to bring his dreamy material to the 10 piece all star Ghost Funk Orchestra, leading them to breathe life into this sophisticated body of work which heralds the celebration of a new era for the group. Ghost Funk Orchestra will be touring in concert this summer and fall to celebrate the release of A New Kind of Love, an album which is sure to stand the test of time.

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      1. Introduction
                                      2. Your Man's No Good
                                      3. Scatter
                                      4. Prism
                                      5. Quiet Places
                                      6. A New Kind Of Love (pt. 1)
                                      7. Why?
                                      8. Blockhead
                                      9. A Song For Pearl
                                      10. Bluebell
                                      11. Rooted
                                      12. A New Kind Of Love (pt. 2)

                                      A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by Ivan Liechti, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hovering in a liminal emotional ravine between moonlight melancholy, teenage heartache and unchecked, unrealised ambition. Across 17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974, the 2LP collects and connects dots between British Invasion fanatics, child prodigies, the loners and the luckless, in a kind of trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.

                                      From the tangerine dreams of 8th grade all-girl combo The Mod 4 to the tri-state jukebox aspiring echoes of The Tempters, The Yardleys' poetic Farfisa vamp and lilting folk pop, and The Landlords’ weepy break up b-side blues, these are mostly one shots by dreamers whose experience was brief before being checked back to the reality of suburban normality and realistic career options. Hailing from the regional backwaters of Illinois, Arkansas, Nevada, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho, Texas and beyond, the licensed artists were scouted by way of local fire departments, spiritualist fellowships and animal welfare centres, often barely a stones throw from where their contributions were originally laid.

                                      A barely teenage Dennis Harte's ‘Summer’s Over’ perhaps best taps the collection’s essence. A gut-wrenching lament of the passing of the season as if it was the last on earth. Flanked by players from The Left Banke, Harte, a now-piano tuner to the stars, is from the minor segment that found longevity in showbiz. Likewise with Michigan icon Lyn Nowicki who cast her ghostly voice over Beatles cover song chameleons The Common People and Jerry McGee, The Ventures member and conduit of Dr. John’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

                                      Ghost Riders simmers with the scent of youthful summers, the pang of schoolyard romance, and the excitement (and disenchantment) of teenage naïveté, delivered via a deceptively simple and frequently wonky garage band set up. The vision of record collector and graphic designer Ivan Liechti, these eternal psych-folk howlers are further crystallised by Colin Young’s fastidious audio restoration, the original artwork of Elise Gagnebin-de Bons and an aptly penned forward from Sonic Boom. 


                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      1. The Mod 4 - A Puppet
                                      2. The Yardleys - Just Remember
                                      3. Decompressed Impossibility - You Can't Ride Away
                                      4. The Living End - Brigitta
                                      5. The Newports - Feelin' Low
                                      6. The Landlords - I'm Through With You
                                      7. The Prisners Dream - Autumn Days
                                      8. The Fortels - She
                                      9. The Bohemians - Say It
                                      10. Tresa Leigh - Until Then
                                      11. WM. Penn & The Quakers - Ghost Of The Monks
                                      12. The Tempters - I Will Go
                                      13. Jerry McGee - Twilight Zone
                                      14. Carroll - The Boy Called Billy Joe
                                      15. The Common People - Here, There & Everywhere
                                      16. Dennis Harte - Summer's Over
                                      17. Toe Head - Goodnight Jackie

                                      Cherry Ghost

                                      Thirst For Romance - 2022 Reissue

                                        Heavenly Recordings release a vinyl repressing of Cherry Ghost’s classic debut Thirst For Romance. This is the first time this album has been pressed on vinyl since its release fifteen years ago when a very small number of double vinyl sets were manufactured.

                                        When Thirst For Romance (Simon Aldred’s debut album as Cherry Ghost) arrived in July 2007, it sounded out of step with so much of its musical surroundings - a world of X Factor winners and Favourite Worst Nightmares; Umbrellas and In Rainbows.

                                        Simon’s album came from a different place to everything else - it was a soul record, in so much as it was from the soul, and about the human soul. And it was a proudly Northern record - a fact celebrated in the sound of Simon’s voice and the people and places that populated his songs. While the music might have evoked glorious vistas and wide open spaces, the view here was very much the post-industrial North. Fifteen years after its release, Thirst For Romance musically sounds out of time, while Simon’s lyrics resonate more deeply now more than ever.

                                        Thirst For Romance was co-produced by Simon Aldred and Dan Austin. The album’s glorious breakout track People Help The People - a prescient call for hope and empathy - gained a second life when covered by the artist Birdy. Doves frontman Jimi Goodwin plays drums on Mathematics and People Help The People.

                                        Jeff Barrett on Cherry Ghost: “I saw Simon playing live and I loved it. I really loved it. It pushed all my Southern Soul buttons but it was coming via Bolton. He was singing blue collar love songs really in a similar way to how someone like Dan Penn sang them about the south. He was just singing about the north of England and painting these great pictures of Northern working class life and delivering them with this brilliant voice. After the show I hogged him, I didn’t want to let him out of my sight.”

                                        Simon Aldred on Thirst For Romance: When I was writing the songs that became Thirst For Romance, I was very introspective, and finding Manchester claustrophobic. The light, the slate grey skies… it felt like there was a lid on it. And on me. The scope of the music I was writing made it easier for me to breathe. It allowed me to stretch my imagination and reach for something more.

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        A1 Thirst For Romance
                                        A2 4am
                                        A3 Mountain Bird
                                        B1 People Help The People
                                        B2 Roses
                                        B3 Dead Man’s Suit
                                        C1 Alfred The Great
                                        C2 Here Come The Romans
                                        C3 False Alarm
                                        D1 Mary On The Mend
                                        D2 Mathematics

                                        Ghost Funk Orchestra

                                        Night Walker / Death Waltz

                                          For Fans Of: Temples, Allah-Las, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Khruangbin, David Axelrod. Back in 2016, producer Seth Applebaum released two EPs that marked the inauguration of the band Ghost Funk Orchestra. ‘Night Walker’ and ‘Death Waltz’ were conceived as one-man-band, reel-to-reel tape recorded experiments that would bring together elements of all the sounds that Seth most adored at the time: tape-saturated drums, gratuitous spring reverb, surfy guitar, Latin-style percussion, odd time signatures, and Spanish-language female vocals. Initially released only in the digital domain and on a short run of cassette tapes, these two EPs that defined the early era of GFO are now finally available together on a single LP via Colemine Records. The tracks have been lovingly remastered by Doug Krebs. We invite you to take a dive into the humble beginnings of a project that has continued to grow, shape shift, and accrue new and exciting sounds for its sonic palette.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          1. Intro
                                          2. Brownout
                                          3. Dark Passage
                                          4. Night Walker
                                          5. Demon Demon
                                          6. Blood Moon
                                          7. Interlude
                                          8. Franklin Ave
                                          9. A Moment Of Clarity
                                          10. The Death Waltz
                                          11. Brain Fog
                                          12. Spirit Dance
                                          13. The Haunt Pt. 2
                                          14. Lost Soul
                                          15. Boneyard Baile 

                                          Earthen Sea

                                          Ghost Poems

                                            Jacob Long’s third Earthen Sea outing for Kranky, Ghost Poems, further refines his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrhythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning.

                                            Composed during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing, room tone, clinking objects), filtered through live FX to imbue them with an intuitive, immaterial feel. Wisps of melody splinter, shimmer, and refract, like light on water; pulses accrue and dissipate, as if mapping shifting sands. Throughout, there’s a sense of matter made animate, of absences felt.

                                            Long cites notions of “the studio as a dub instrument” and the melancholy of “7th chords on a fake Rhodes patch” as central elements in his process, transforming raw materials into rare thresholds of symbiosis and hypnosis. This is music for night skies in hollowed out cities, for views across rivers towards unknown shores: restless, placeless, and profound.


                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            1. Shiny Nowhere
                                            2. Stolen Time
                                            3. Felt Absence
                                            4. Oblique Ruins
                                            5. Snowy Water
                                            6. Rough Air
                                            7. Slate Horizon
                                            8. Ochre Sky
                                            9. Fossil Painting
                                            10. Deep Sky

                                            Attia Taylor

                                            Space Ghost

                                              Attia Taylor is a NYC based musician, writer, and content producer. She is the founder of Womanly Magazine, The Dorothy and a member of The Art Dept Collective. Her work is rooted in social justice, art, and design, to bring inclusive and culturally relevant content to sound, print and digital realms. She is passionate about building and cultivating communities through journalism, music, storytelling, and research. “Space Ghost” is her debut solo album, recorded with Jeff Ziegler (Kurt Vile, The War on Drugs) in Philadelphia.

                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              A1. Seventy
                                              A2. Mildest Winner
                                              A3. Basic Economics
                                              A4. Space Ghost
                                              A5. Broad And Cherry
                                              B1. Dog And Pony Show
                                              B2. Baby Ain’t Nobody
                                              B3. Wanna Go
                                              B4.Wanderer
                                              B5. Alone

                                              Jonas Reinhardt

                                              A Ragged Ghost

                                                "A Ragged Ghost" is the eighth full-length album from electronic producer Jonas Reinhardt. Following albums on Kranky, Not Not Fun, Constellation Tatsu, and more, his debut release for Trouble In Mind brings together 11 new pieces that explore themes of life & death, netherworlds, and the liminal spaces in between. Taken together as a single narrative, the album offers a stirring exploration of mortality and immortality in what Reinhardt describes as 'a dance of religious syncretism, navigating spaces between the living and the dead'. "A Ragged Ghost" finds him synthesizing influences organically from familiar teutonic strains to the intense austerity of early 21st century electronic pioneers such as Biosphere and Susumu Yokota.

                                                A whisper of the Italo-disco-esque romps of Jonas' 2012's "Foam Fangs" EP & 2013's "Mask of The Maker" LP merge with his more kosmische leanings into a sinister, slightly funky, but also studious suite that at times feels like a lost sound library record from the KPM archives. Openers "Ape & The Universal Axis" and "In Lotto Commodore" decidedly sound like a selection from a lost film score while others like the bubbling "Sly Tomb" recall the works of Roedelius or Vangelis' serene soundscapes. Meanwhile, fans of the electro-ambience of Manuel Göttsching's strobe-light, proto-house (on his seminal "E2-E4") or the pulsing insistence of John Carpenter's visceral non-horror scores (i.e. "Escape From New York" or "Assault on Precinct 13") will find a lot to love about songs like "Tumb Tumb" and "Wretched Orchestra of Armistice".

                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                1. Ape & The Universal Axis
                                                2. In Lotto Commodore
                                                3. Earthshaking Patsy
                                                4. Oxus
                                                5. Wretched Orchestra Of Armistice
                                                6. Utter Phoenix Rampo
                                                7. Quest Or Go Fanatic
                                                8. Sly Tomb
                                                9. An Alleged Jeremiad
                                                10. Tumb Tumb
                                                11. The Five Paper Tell 

                                                Gazelle Twin

                                                The Entire City (Special Edition)

                                                  In 2011 Gazelle Twin self-released ‘The Entire City’, a debut album that gathered rapid acclaim and sparked a decade of creativity during which its creator, Elizabeth Bernholz has built big upon her foundation of dark, cinematic energy. The album is now set to be reissued on deluxe CD, together with ‘The Wastelands’, a mini “twin” album of material made around the same period, though never released commercially. Where 'The Entire City’ remains intact with its original master and tracklisting, ‘The Wastelands’ expands on this shadowy, futurescape, featuring foreboding, percussive songwriting, with euphoric choral swells. The release features the captivating photo collage artwork of British artist, Suzanne Moxhay

                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  1 The Entire City
                                                  2 Concrete Mother
                                                  3 Men Like Gods
                                                  4 I Am Shell I Am Bone
                                                  5 Far From Home
                                                  6 Changelings
                                                  7 Bell Tower
                                                  8 When I Was Otherwise
                                                  9 Obelisk
                                                  10 Nest
                                                  11 Fight-or-Flight
                                                  12 View Of A Mountain

                                                  CD Version - CD 2 The Wastelands

                                                  1 Wastelands
                                                  2 Adrenalin
                                                  3 Hole In My Heart
                                                  4 Ascent
                                                  5 The Future
                                                  6 I Hear You Call



                                                  Gazelle Twin

                                                  The Wastelands

                                                    'The Wastelands' is an album of material made around the same period as 'The Entire City' though never released commercially. The album expands on 'The Entire City's shadowy, futurescape, featuring foreboding, percussive songwriting, with euphoric choral swells. 'The Wastelands' also features the captivating photo collage artwork of British artist, Suzanne Moxhay.

                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    1/Wastelands
                                                    2/Adrenalin
                                                    3/Hole In My Heart
                                                    4/Ascent
                                                    5/The Future
                                                    6/I Hear You Call

                                                    Poliça

                                                    Give You The Ghost (RSD22 EDITION)

                                                      THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2022 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                      10-year anniversary of POLICA 's classic debut album Give You The Ghost, repressed on limited edition white opaque vinyl and limited to 1,500 worldwide. Give You The Ghost was one of 2012's standout debut albums, marrying as it did post-rock and R&B to stunning effect, leading Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to describe them then as "the best band he'd ever heard".

                                                      Give You The Ghost's influence on sonics and production can still being felt to this day. Lead singer Channy Leaneagh's delicate yet visceral vocals, occasionally and subtly manipulated by a Helicon 5, formed a sweet harmonic partnership with Chris Bierden's bass riffs. This, matched with the twin attack of drummers Drew Christopherson and Ben Ivascu and the anti-production techniques of fifth member Ryan Olson, made POLICA a unique proposition, as demonstrated on singles Lay Your Cards Out, Dark Star and Wandering Star. A break out performance at 2012's SXSW saw them booked for TV slots on Jimmy Fallon and Later with Jools Holland, plus a plethora of festivals including Coachella and Glastonbury. 

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      A1 Amongster
                                                      A2 I See My Mother
                                                      A3 Violent Games
                                                      A4 Dark Star
                                                      A5 Form
                                                      B1 The Maker
                                                      B2 Lay Your Cards Out
                                                      B3 Fist, Teeth, Money
                                                      B4 Happy Be Fine
                                                      B5 Wandering Star
                                                      B6 Leading To Death

                                                      Ghost Power

                                                      Ghost Power

                                                        Ghost Power are Jeremy Novak [Dymaxion] and Timothy Gane [Stereolab, Cavern of Anti-Matter and Turn On].

                                                        Duophonic Super 45s have previously released music by both artists - Novak via a Dymaxion compilation album and 7", Gane via various Stereolab, Cavern of Anti-Matter and Turn On releases.

                                                        Having previously released a limited edition 7" in 2020, Ghost Power by Ghost Power brings the two musicians together for a full length album.

                                                        The tracks were recorded in Berlin and New York, both remotely and with Novak and Gane working together in each city.

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        1. Asteroid Witch
                                                        2. Panic In The Isles Of Splendor
                                                        3. Lithic Fragment
                                                        4. Inchwork
                                                        5. Zome Primer
                                                        6. Grimalkin
                                                        7. Heavy Bubbles
                                                        8. Vertical Section
                                                        9. Opsimath
                                                        10. Astral Melancholy Suite

                                                        Large Plants

                                                        The Carrier

                                                          Large Plants started as a solo project for Jack Sharp, the singer and guitarist for Wolf People. It was spurred on by a writing frenzy during the lockdown of 2020 when Sharp played and recorded all the parts for what would become the debut single, La Isla Bonita and the first album The Carrier. In summer of 2021 the tracks were mixed by songwriter Chris Cohen (formerly of Deerhoof & Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti).

                                                          Large Plants’ songs are immediate, heavy psychedelic rock belters filtered through a haze of analogue tape flutter. Sharp’s voice has an eerily distant and delicate tone that lends a strong folk sensibility to the album; like the scent of winter mornings and fresh soil mixed with the whiff of petrol. Though the songs are generally three-minute gems, they are lyrically more like ancient ballads; peopled with tragic youths, witches, lovelorn troubadours and femmes fatales. Sharp is now touring Large Plants as a four piece along with Ed Taylor on drums, Ollie Taylor on bass and Joe Wooley on guitar with dates booked so far at OSLO, Hackney -17th April and The Betsy Trotwood, Clerkenwell 5th May

                                                          STAFF COMMENTS

                                                          Barry says: Swooning, progressive psychedelia from Jack Sharp bringing to mind the loose garage wooze of BJM or heady echoic psych a-la Jefferson Airplane all tinged with Ghost Box's distinctive and almost ever-present tape-distressed aesthetic. A beautiful addition to the label and a wonderful full-length for the Large Plants. A superb addition to any collection.

                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          1. The Carrier
                                                          2. No Difference
                                                          3. Don't Let Me Let You Down
                                                          4. Never Seen
                                                          5. How Far
                                                          6. Wreckers
                                                          7. Hold Onto
                                                          8. I Lie Awake
                                                          9. Marceline
                                                          10. The Witch

                                                          Zero 7

                                                          Yeah Ghost - 2022 Reissue

                                                            Zero 7’s 4th album Yeah Ghost from 2009, spans everything from dance pop to acoustic folk and everything in between it's an idea-splattered work of genius that even includes a quartet of instrumental tracks derived from their experimental side projects and sampled, overdubbed and rebuilt from scratch. From the evocative intro 'Count Me Out' to the album's shuffling, twitchy closer 'All Of Us' - via the haunting 'Solastalgia' and 'Ghost sYMbOL' avant-garde electronic and distorted vocals - it's Zero 7 as you've never heard them before. 'Destiny' this aint. One thing that remains consistent though is the roll call of up-and-coming talent on vocal duties, including singer ESKA Mtungwazi. The Londoner, whose collaboration credits include Matthew Herbert and Bugs In The Attic, appears on 'Mr McGee', 'Medicine Man', 'Sleeper' and 'The Road' & folk singer songwriter/ painter / filmmaker Martha Tilson for Pop Art Blue.

                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            LP Tracks:
                                                            Disc 1
                                                            1. Count Me Out
                                                            2. Mr McGee
                                                            3. Swing
                                                            1. Everything Up (Zizou)
                                                            2. Pop Art Blue
                                                            3. Medicine Man

                                                            Disc 2
                                                            1. Ghost SYMbOL
                                                            2. Sleeper
                                                            3. Solastalgia
                                                            1. The Road
                                                            2. All Of Us

                                                            CD Tracks:
                                                            1. Count Me Out
                                                            2. Mr McGee
                                                            3. Swing
                                                            4. Everything Up [Zizou]
                                                            5. Pop Art Blue
                                                            6. Medicine Man
                                                            7. Ghost SYMbOL
                                                            8. Sleeper
                                                            9. Solastalgia
                                                            10. The Road
                                                            11. All Of Us
                                                            12. E Sgwers (demo Version)
                                                            13. Methods
                                                            14. Ghost SYMbOL (Klang Version)

                                                            Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore

                                                            Ghost Forests

                                                              Musical conversations between Meg Baird (Espers) and Mary Lattimore are intimate, fluid, effortless and spontaneous. They’re filled with the euphoria of creation and, at times, they articulate hard truths and tangled emotions with an ease only trusted friends can manage. The songs alternate between extended ethereal instrumental excursions, gauzy and dreamy pop, blown-out Bull of the Woods heavy haze, and modern re-imaginations of epic traditional balladry all while touching on the strange and otherworldly places between these stations.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              Between Two Worlds
                                                              Damaged Sunset
                                                              In Cedars
                                                              Blue Burning
                                                              Painter Of Tygers
                                                              Fair Annie

                                                              Blood Red Shoes

                                                              Ghost On Tape

                                                                After years spent living on opposite sides of the Atlantic world events threw Laura Mary Carter and Steven Ansell of Blood Red Shoes back together into what has become the must fruitful era of their 17 years together.

                                                                “It’s been a loooong time since we both lived in the same city”, explains Steven. “I mean we actually wrote this album in LA at Laura’s place, then came to the UK to record it…and then everything went nuts”.

                                                                Realising very quickly that they wouldn’t be able to release the album or tour until the world returned to some kind of normality, the band found their energies quickly spilled over into other projects. Laura-Mary started a podcast, Never Meet Your Idols, with her best friend in LA, interviewing everyone from Zack Snyder to Mark Lanegan to CHVRCHES. It is now about to start its third season. Steven started applying his love of electronic music by writing and producing other alternative artists like Circe, ARXX, Aiko and XCerts, racking up millions of streams in the process.

                                                                Having worked together on Laura–Mary’s forthcoming solo mini album Town Called Nothing and restless from the lack of touring, the duo started jamming out in rehearsal rooms, which led to the light-speed writing, recording and release of the impossibly-titled Ø EP in the summer of 2021. Which concludes what the band call an “off year”.


                                                                And that brings us back to GHOST ON TAPE. It appears that like David Lynch’s The Lost Highway, nothing is linear in the world of Blood Red Shoes. Written and recorded before their most recent EP, GHOSTS ON TAPE is a huge jump into new terrain for the band. Musically and emotionally their most mature work, it is a complex, imaginative, and very gothic development on their sound. Musically, it leaves almost no trace of their former selves.

                                                                “We’ve always been outsiders right from the very beginning” says Steven. “This album is really about us asserting ourselves as our own little island”, he adds. “We have made an entire career out of being told what we are “not”, of being rejected, of not fitting in, and this album is us deliberately pushing into all of our strangeness, emphasising all of the things that make us different”. Obsessed by true crime and murder podcasts, many songs on the record are told in character and explore the dark psyche of those at the pinnacle of outsiderdom: serial killers. "Ghosts On Tape" paints a picture of a dark and unsettling world. It is the sound of a unified and confident duo who know exactly who they are, even if the wider world doesn’t really get it. The sound of two people who have spent their entire adult lives making music together and who, more than ever, are finding new pathways for their creativity.

                                                                “Ultimately this album is an invitation”, explains Steven. “It’s us saying, this is our world, these are our darkest thoughts and feelings - our ghosts - caught on tape. You are welcome to join us. Come and embrace the strange”.

                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                1. Comply
                                                                2. Morbid Fascination
                                                                3. Murder Me
                                                                4. (I've Been Watching You)
                                                                5. Give Up
                                                                6. Sucker
                                                                7. Begging
                                                                8. (You Claim To Understand)
                                                                9. I Am Not You
                                                                10. Dig A Hole
                                                                11. I Lose Whatever I Own
                                                                12. (What Have You Been Waiting For?)
                                                                13. Four Two Seven 

                                                                Haiku Salut

                                                                The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

                                                                  Haiku Salut, the acclaimed electronica trio from the Derbyshire Dales release their fifth album, ‘The Hill, The Light, The Ghost’ on Secret Name records.

                                                                  A beautiful study of ghosts and memory, the gestation of the record began when Haiku Salut’s Sophie Barkerwood was given a Tascam field recorder. “I carried it around with me in case anything interesting happened. I guess I wanted to capture little pieces of the world in the same way we all take photographs,” explains Sophie. “It wasn’t immediately apparent that we would begin to use these sounds as the architecture for an album but as our writing process evolved the textures of these memories became a bank of inspiration.”

                                                                  “We then began actively searching for ghosts in the world and framing the songs around their qualities,” Sophie continues. “Gathering recordings, removing them from their context and building worlds around them. Capturing and preserving personal experiences, and evoking vivid spaces. You could say the record is a miniature exploration of sound in relation to memory. Each piece is intimately connected to a place in time.”

                                                                  Musically, the album marries the expansive vision of their third album, ‘There Is No Elsewhere’, which celebrated identity and community, with the darker, more contemplative feel of their fourth album, the trio’s original soundtrack for Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’. Building on the lessons learned working on ‘The General’, ‘The Hill, The Light, The Ghost’ is a cohesive suite, nine songs that combine to tell a larger story – that of experience and memory, of precious moments and echoes of past lives.

                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                  (1) Wide Awake
                                                                  (2) Entering
                                                                  (3) We Need These Beams
                                                                  (4) I Dreamed I Was Awake For A Very Long Time
                                                                  (5) How The Day Starts
                                                                  (6) All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
                                                                  (7) Try Again And Again And Again
                                                                  (8) Trespass
                                                                  (9) All Clear

                                                                  Pye Corner Audio

                                                                  Entangled Routes

                                                                    Entangled Routes is the fourth Pye Corner Audio album for Ghost Box Records. It’s the third part of a loose trilogy of albums starting with Stasis in 2016 and followed by Hollow Earth in 2019. Each album is a kind of high concept sci-fi epic, the latest instalment of which plays with the idea of mycorrhizal networks and attempts by humans to listen in and communicate.

                                                                    As always with Pye Corner Audio and Ghost Box Records generally, narrative is not spelled out. It's only implied in the drama and mood of the music, with the help of careful attention to track titles and sequence and of course Julian House's consistently evocative artwork.

                                                                    Martin Jenkins builds up tension with his minimalistic synth sequences and dance floor abstractions. His masterful sound design creates a sense of awe and vast space as he takes us on a fantastic and exciting voyage from peril to redemption.

                                                                    Pye Corner Audio specialise in majestic, cinematic electronica that evokes sci-fi soundtracks, dystopian futures and the sound of haunted dance floors. The discography to date includes ten full length albums and many more singles and EPs across several labels. There are also remixes for John Foxx, Mogwai, Ride’s Andy Bell, Mark Lanegan, Alice Hubble, Stealing Sheep, Knightstown and Dolphin Midwives.

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    New Roots
                                                                    Synaptic
                                                                    Paleolith
                                                                    Earthwork
                                                                    The Creeper
                                                                    Hive Mind
                                                                    The Clearing
                                                                    Growth Potential
                                                                    The Long Now
                                                                    Phantom Orchid
                                                                    Leaf Mould
                                                                    Buried Network
                                                                    Symbiosis

                                                                    The Black Angels

                                                                    Directions To See A Ghost

                                                                      “The Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966 the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions to See a Ghost. Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas’ rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. ’You say the Beatles stopped the war,” Maas sings in ‘Never/Ever.’ ‘They might’ve helped to find a cure/But it’s still not over.’ Even so, this medicine works wonders." – David Fricke, Rolling Stone

                                                                      Last time we met The Black Angels, they were staring into the desert sun somewhere outside of Austin, Texas. Two years later, night has fallen and the spirits have come out. It’s time for The Black Angels to provide Directions On How To See A Ghost.

                                                                      If you’re familiar with Passover, the band’s 2006 debut, you’ll know that The Black Angels’s music alone is enough to invoke spirits. There’s a name for the band’s sound; they call it ‘hypno-drone ’n roll’. It’s the sound of long nights on peyote, of dreams of a new world order, and of half-invented memories of the seamy side of ’60s psychedelia.

                                                                      While the Iraq war is still a major influence on the band’s lyrics, there are new forces at work here, including Eugene Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We and in Christian Bland’s words “psychic information from the past and future.” See, The Black Angels really are in contact with ghosts.
                                                                      “Civil War battlefields are prime spots for seeing ghosts,” says Bland. “One time at Kennesaw mountain in Georgia, I was climbing the mountain in the middle of June and it must have been close to 100 degrees, but in this one particular spot it was very cold. The hairs on my neck stood up and I knew something strange was happening. Then the wind whispered something like ‘retreat,’ and I did. I later learned that the spot where I was on the battlefield was known as ‘the dead angle’, the place where the fiercest fighting took place. The confederates ended up retreating from the mountain towards Peachtree Creek.”

                                                                      The Black Angels formed in Austin, Texas, in 2004, comprising from six people (now five) from very different backgrounds. Singer/vocalist Christian Bland is the son of a Presbyterian Pastor and was raised in a devoutly religious household. Bassist / guitarist Nate Ryan was born on a cult compound and drummer Stephanie Bailey claims she’s a descendent of Davy Crocket. She and Alex Maas (vocals/guitar) believe a little girl in a red linen dress haunts the group’s home.

                                                                      The band released Passover in 2006 to critical acclaim for both the album and the song “The First Vietnamese War”. Most of all, Passover established The Black Angels as a band with brains, balls and a strong message. And this time around, the message is there to read in a 16-page booklet that comes with the album.

                                                                      “Our central theme is that people need to open up their minds and let everything come through, and to learn from past mistakes,” says Christian. “Only then will we understand the reality of this world and progress beyond where we are now as humans. We’ve built upon that theme with Directions to See a Ghost. We want people to study the booklet we are providing with the album in hopes that they will be able to relate each song to something in their life.”
                                                                      _"War is Peace.

                                                                      Freedom is Slavery.
                                                                      Ignorance is Strength.
                                                                      Keep Music Evil."_


                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                      You On The Run
                                                                      Doves
                                                                      Science Killer
                                                                      Mission District
                                                                      18 Years
                                                                      Deer-ree-shee
                                                                      Never/ever
                                                                      Vikings
                                                                      You In Color
                                                                      The Return
                                                                      Snake In The Grass

                                                                      Cherry Ghost

                                                                      Beneath This Burning Shoreline

                                                                        Following a two year hiatus, the Ivor Novello award winning songwriters Cherry Ghost have regrouped and with the help of Dan Austin (Doves, Massive Attack) they have recorded one of the most hopeful, beguiling, theatrical, and ultimately captivating albums of the year. With an eclectic repertoire of songs that go way beyond simplistic melodies and rousing choruses, Cherry Ghost create a musical world of their own that’s as strong and as all-encompassing as a fictional voice. Songs are sung about and from the perspective of a variety of characters (young and old / male and female / rich and poor), while themes such as loss, revenge, regret, blasphemy and disillusionment wrestle with romance, hope, optimism all wrapped within a wickedly dark humour; "Beneath This Burning Shoreline" unravels like a fine southern gothic novel. The album opens with "We Sleep On Stones". The malevolent locomotive rhythm of the track signals a move away from the idea of Cherry Ghost as a solo project, showcasing a more refined and assured sounding band. With Krautrock flourishes this murderous ballad illustrates both lyrically and sonically the Cherry Ghost sound in 2010.

                                                                        Running the gamut of human emotion, the album moves quixotically from track to track, exploring new narratives in each one, take "The Night They Buried Sadie Clay", a funeral march that celebrates the life of a dying woman that never gave in or gave up hope, or "Only A Mother", a tale of domestic abuse and promises unrealised that’s straight out of Morrissey book of poetic social commentary. Meanwhile, recorded live and in one take, the blasphemous ballad "My God Betrays" sees Cherry Ghost collectively bestow one of the most sorrowful and contemplative tracks in annals of contemporary music.

                                                                        Euphoria is never far away and with new lead single, "Kissing Strangers" it is there in abundance. The dusty crooned vocals of Simon Aldred are wrapped around psychedelic lullabies, Glen Campbell guitars and stately drumming. It’s an ode to wayward souls trawling the night skies "Kissing Strangers" is a 21st century song for swinging lovers: young hearts on the chase and well groomed weekend brutes. Further jubilation comes in the form of "BlackFang", a 4 minute romp that revives the spirit of The Velvet Underground and "Luddite" eschews progress in favour of a skiffle-beat lament to the emotionally stunted.

                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        1. We Sleep On Stones
                                                                        2. A Month Of Mornings
                                                                        3. Kissing Strangers
                                                                        4. Conquered Part 1
                                                                        5. Only A Mother
                                                                        6. The Night The Buried Sadie Clay
                                                                        7. My God Betrays
                                                                        8. Barberini Square
                                                                        9. Conquered Part 2
                                                                        10. BlackFang
                                                                        11. Luddite
                                                                        12. Diamond In The Grind
                                                                        13. Strays

                                                                        RZA

                                                                        Ghost Dog : The Way Of The Samurai (Original Motion Picture Score)

                                                                          Available on compact disc and limited edition red or white vinyl! Ghost Dog - Original Motion Picture Score, produced by The RZA, is now available on official Vinyl and CD editions! This masterpiece was previously only given a limited Japanese release, and is the first film score produced by The RZA and features appearances by Wu Tang Clan. 

                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                          A1. Ghost Dog Theme (w/ Dogs & FX)
                                                                          A2. Opening Theme (Raise Your Swords Instrumental)
                                                                          A3. Flying Birds
                                                                          A4. Samurai Theme
                                                                          A5. Gangster Theme
                                                                          A6. Dead Birds
                                                                          A7. Fast Shadow Feat. Wu Tang Clan (Version 1)
                                                                          A8. RZA #7
                                                                          A9. Funky Theme
                                                                          A10. RZA’s Theme

                                                                          B1. Samurai Showdown (Raise Your Swords) Feat. RZA
                                                                          B2. Ghost Dog Theme
                                                                          B3. Fast Shadow Feat. Wu Tang Clan (Version 2)
                                                                          B4. Untitled #8
                                                                          B5. Untitled #12 Free Jazz
                                                                          B6. Wu-World Order Feat. Wu Tang Clan (Version 1) 

                                                                          Ghost Funk Orchestra

                                                                          An Ode To Escapism

                                                                            For Fans Of…Temples, Allah-Las, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Khruangbin, David Axelrod. Where will you hide when the world around you is closing in? On their latest LP, GFO invites you to close your eyes and take a dive into your subconscious. Strings and horns float around from ear to ear while their three sirens explore themes of isolation, fear of the unknown, and the fabrication of self-image. It's a soulful psychedelic journey that picks up sonically where "A Song For Paul" left off. The drums are heavier, the arrangements are more intricate, and the vocal harmonies soar over a bed of odd time signature grooves. This is an album that's meant to be listened to in the dark. So won't you join them? You're not scared.....are you? 

                                                                            STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                            Barry says: Swirling psychedelic guitars and snappey percussion work their way around the dreamlike reverbs and jazzy snare drums before launching into a lysergic, organ-led breakdown. It's a woozy but euphoric cocktail.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. Introduction
                                                                            2. Overture
                                                                            3. Little Bird
                                                                            4. Stoop Talk
                                                                            5. Step Back (Wild Child)
                                                                            6. Fuzzy Logic
                                                                            7. Pause I
                                                                            8. Quiet Soul
                                                                            9. Mourning
                                                                            10. Drop Me A Line
                                                                            11. Pause II
                                                                            12. Queen Bee
                                                                            13. Korban Olah
                                                                            14. Toujours
                                                                            15. Pause III
                                                                            16. King Of Misdirection
                                                                            17. Cost Of Living

                                                                            Cherry Ghost

                                                                            Live At The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge - January 25 2015.

                                                                              As the final act before their hiatus ñ coming after three critically praised albums in a decade - 'Live at the Trades Club Hebden Bridge' is Cherry Ghost performing an intimate, starkly arranged set at the 2015 Heavenly Weekender.Released now for the first time ñ on double vinyl and download ñ this is perhaps the best realised collection of songs from Cherry Ghost, the alias of the Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter Simon Aldred. The instrumentation ñ Aldred is joined on keyboards and light percussion by Christian Madden and Grenville Harrop ñ brings to the fore Aldred's peerless songwriting, his oak-aged, prematurely wisened baritone.'History' wrote the Quietus in 2014, 'will be kind to Aldred', and this collection proves exactly that ñ with a bit of time and distance, the songs presented here show a highly singular, highly accomplished songwriter, aspiring to the pop classicism of Glen Campbell or Bill Callahan. All of human life is here ñ tracking a drizzly Northern gothic of last bus loneliness, late-night Spars, solitary drinkers, factory floors and Gods that betray.And yet, there's more than meets the eye.There's magnetic renderings of his best known songs - '4AM', 'People Help the People', the soaring 'Mathematics' - but surprises reveal themselves.'All I Want' and 'Herd Runners' candidly examine Aldred's sexuality, whilst the seldom heard b-side 'Bad Crowd' reveals Aldred to be a much funnier songwriter than remembered. What runs right through Aldred's work, however, is a yearning ñ a much tested faith in romance ñ so no wonder that the album ends on its most optimistic notes, at the darkest point of winter nestled in the West Yorkshire valleys, promising clear skies ever closer.

                                                                              Ohmme

                                                                              Fantasize Your Ghost

                                                                                There's an obvious chemistry emanating throughout Ohmme's music that's so tangible it can only come from a decades-spanning friendship. Songwriters Sima Cunnningham and Macie Stewart formed their unbreakable bond performing throughout the fringes of Chicago's many interlocking communities, collaborating with titans from the city's indie rock, hiphop, and improvised worlds. But together, along with drummer Matt Carroll, they've stretched the boundaries of what guitar music can do starting with the band's experimental 2016 self-titled EP and their adventurous debut 2018 LP Parts. Now their longstanding partnership culminates with the stunning and muscular follow-up Fantasize Your Ghost. Ohmme formed in 2014 as an outlet for Cunningham and Stewart to explore an unconventional approach to their instruments.


                                                                                "That's the whole genesis of the band: us walking up to our guitars and saying, 'how can we make this noisemaker do something different?'" says Cunningham. But as their musical collaboration strengthened, bringing Parts and intensive tours with acts like Wilco, Iron & Wine, Twin Peaks, and more, the band's scope and focus has also broadened. "Grinding on tour last year for so long, it can alter your mental state where you have to think about your life in a different way than you would if you're home. A lot of the songs stemmed from just thinking about all of the possibilities that life could be and could take," says Stewart. The commanding single "3 2 4 3" tackles the terrifying realization of needing to make a change. Their deft scene-setting and the way their disparate voices blend together heightens the song's inherent anxiety. These moments of emotional clarity fill Fantasize Your Ghost.


                                                                                Written across 2019, early sketches of the album's tracklist were demoed at Sam Evian's Flying Cloud Studios in upstate New York. "That's where we really started to see the record come together," says Cunningham. The sessions were intensely collaborative and open, the product of long, existential conversations between Stewart and Cunningham in the van about their lives and how to channel the anger they were feeling about the state of the world. Tracks like the driving opener "Flood Your Gut" underwent several revisions with Ohmme uncovering several new directions the song could go before finishing it. Fantasize Your Ghost was recorded over a six day session in with indie rock journeyman producer Chris Cohen and captures the astounding magnetism and ferocity of their live show.


                                                                                Fantasize Your Ghost encapsulates the thrilling and sometimes terrifying joy of moving forward even if you don't know where you're going. It's an album that asks necessary questions: When life demands a crossroads, what version of yourself are you going to pursue? What part of yourself will you feed and let flourish and what do you have to let go of? This is a record of strength, of best friends believing in each other. Unapologetic and brave, Ohmme are ready to figure it all out together.

                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                Barry says: Over the few years they've been recording, Ohmme have clearly perfected their brand of rhythmic indie rock into the perfectly hypnotic distillation we hear today. Elements of Americana, White Stripes-esque blues rock and hypntoic synthy kosmische. It's a melting pot indeed, but one that works flawlessly. That groove!

                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                1. Flood Your Gut
                                                                                2. Selling Candy
                                                                                3. Ghost
                                                                                4. The Limit
                                                                                5. Spell It Out
                                                                                6. Twitch
                                                                                7. 3 2 4 3
                                                                                8. Some Kind Of Calm
                                                                                9. Sturgeon Moon
                                                                                10. After All

                                                                                DJs, producers and unrivaled selectors, Danny McLewin and Tom Coveney have shared the next taste of their debut album ‘I Feel How This Night Should Look’ via their stunning next track, ‘Ghost Particle’.

                                                                                Recorded at Canterbury’s Cosmic Forest Studios, ‘Ghost Particle’ features English psychedelic-rock Syd Arthur frontman Liam Magill. A gorgeously emotive and glistening space prog infused moment track for the album, Ghost Particle glides along at cruising altitude.

                                                                                Released last year on their own imprint Psychemagik Recordings. ‘I Feel How This Night Should Look’ is an album with a phenomenal backstory spanning back over a decade. ‘I Feel How This Night Should Look’ is testament to the duo’s deep understanding and love of their craft, an LP which hones a layered intelligence that only long-term dedication to the art and craft of the DJ can deliver.


                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                A1. Ghost Particle (Feat. Liam Magill)
                                                                                A2. Ghost Particle (Instrumental)
                                                                                B1. Ghost Particle (Feat. Liam Magill) (Cable Toy Club Mix)

                                                                                Paul Haslinger

                                                                                Exit Ghost

                                                                                  It’s a strange betweenworld, bookended by sleep and the jolt of being wide awake in a place where you wonder how you got there. You know the feeling… It seems familiar but the colours are, well, unreal. In a high-ceilinged room, a grand piano plays lush melodies as, meanwhile, somewhere, an Alice In Wonderland clock ticks, cellos are bowed, a swarm of something vibrates and the hallucinatory crowd around Rosemary’s Baby babble. An echoey electronic hum builds and falls like a 50s refrigerator passed through and effects board, things run backwards, staccato strings are plucked… and that’s not the half of it. “I’ve never been happy staying in one particular school of musical thought. The fun has been turning things on their heads, to try something you were not supposed to do.” We’re on an immersive and adventurous travelogue with the former member of the legendary Tangerine Dream, Paul Haslinger - this is a man who knows how to build tension, hold moods, illustrate contempt, lies, passion and pleasure; He can create fear, loathing and love - he’s been unlocking the nuances of such emotions in a hugely successful career as a TV and film soundtrack composer (Halt And Catch Fire, Underworld and the Golden Globe-nominated Sleeper Cell). ‘Exit Ghost’ is his long thought out opus, a moment caught in time, flicking through reference points, taking an ethereal excursion that permeates musical genres as it becomes awash with intricate sounds and cross-pollinating rhythms. Built originally from the warmth of his grand piano ‘Exit Ghost’ resonates with purity and power, from an eerie and evocative betweenworld, that’s at once expansive and rolling, then intoxicating and suffocating in equal measures; modern composition at its most uplifting; cerebral, celebratory, intense and beautiful. “The soul searching in connection with this record was extensive. Finding places of resonance, giving a colour to your memories. It was more challenging because it’s not somebody else’s narrative. Finding the core of your own story can be the most difficult task of all.” Created over the span of eight years and filled with literal and personal references, the album itself is a testament to the search - a quest filled with hints, particles and suggestions. 

                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  A1 The Faltering Sky
                                                                                  A2 Intrinsic
                                                                                  A3 Room 3
                                                                                  A4 Exit Ghost
                                                                                  A5 Valse I
                                                                                  A6 August 2-22
                                                                                  B1 Berlin 86-11
                                                                                  B2 White Sun
                                                                                  B3 Mayerling
                                                                                  B4 FernDell

                                                                                  Ghost Wolves

                                                                                  Crooked Cop

                                                                                    Third Man Records is excited to release the newest songs from Austin, TX’s Ghost Wolves. Formed in 2011 and hardly taking time to sit since then, the Ghost Wolves create, record and tour at a rapid clip.

                                                                                    Blending rock n' roll, punk rock, garage and blues with electronic elements, the duo has earned a reputation as one of the hardest working bands in the modern rock n’ roll underground, touring internationally for almost 8 years straight, with nearly 1000 shows between them in 23+ countries including most of western Europe, the USA, U.K. and Japan.

                                                                                    The duo recorded these three new tracks in early 2019 with engineer/producer John Michael Schoepf (bassist for Ray Wylie Hubbard, Night Glitter) in his Austin living room studio. The recording took place during a very dark time for Carley and Jonny, who have been married for 7 years. Jonny’s father received a terminal cancer diagnosis in late 2018. These songs came together while Jonny was tending to his father in Connecticut, with Carley sending demo songs to him from Texas. When his father stabilized somewhat, Jonny returned to Austin to take a break and they both therapeutically recorded these songs. As can be heard, these recordings are darker, more intimate and more pressing than previous material.

                                                                                    Ghost Orchard

                                                                                    Bunny

                                                                                      “Bunny” is the brand-new album from Ghost Orchard, aka 21-year-old Sam Hall, following on from his 2016 album “Bliss”, which received great praise from The Fader and Tiny Mix Tapes. Ghost Orchard channels the experimental pop of Aphex Twin, Frank Ocean, and King Krule. “Bunny” is a celebration of love and everything in between. Written and recorded entirely by Sam in his bedroom over three years, it showcases a turbulent and beautiful time in his life and attempts to capture a glimpse into coming of age, the urgency of falling in love, and what comes after.

                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      Witness
                                                                                      Swan
                                                                                      Bunny
                                                                                      Guess
                                                                                      Only
                                                                                      Carousel
                                                                                      Sheesh
                                                                                      First Time
                                                                                      Balloon
                                                                                      Station
                                                                                      Puppy
                                                                                      Frog
                                                                                      Ride
                                                                                      Honeymoon

                                                                                      “What species is this? What century?” Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England’s rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present. Told through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that “there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the “quaint” ”.

                                                                                      The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fête. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui.

                                                                                      Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, Pastoral will be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP UNFLESH (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholz’s J.G. Ballard-inspired A/V show ’Kingdom Come’ (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England.

                                                                                      As its sole creator, Gazelle Twin “The Composer, Musician and Producer” has crafted an album overflowing with a frenzy of traditional and contemporary musical tropes; from early music instrumentation - the harpsichord and the humble recorder, fed through myriad electronics - to the compelling, ritualistic application of found sample-looping. Beyond Bernholz’s signature choral-infusions, here reverberating like a warped Sunday Service, there are even shades of ‘90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory.

                                                                                      In its consummation it is an album that feels pan-century, even pan-species. Set against a verdant backdrop of hedgerows and steeples, Gazelle Twin “The Artist and Performer”, constructs an eccentric and commanding visual embodiment of all-of-the-above - a costume fit for a court Jester of the 21st Century.
                                                                                      The colours of Neo-Nationalism. Coke cans, and DANGER. “It” (not “she”) hints at folkloric traditions with a footy mascot twist. The “Ye Olde” and “The Everyman” of the English cliché. Brandishing a sneer and a hobby horse. A riddle and a recorder. A jeer and a square dance in red, Adidas Gazelle’s, and a mad, fixed GRIN - first glimpsed in the single, ‘Hobby Horse’ (22 June, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). A deranged, absurd reflection of deranged and absurd times.

                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                      Martin says: Bernholz returns for another brilliantly off-piste collection of post-NIN industrial scree, thudding glitches and bit-crushed vocal abstractions, filtered through a rosy, synth-pop filter and smashed into a thousand pieces before being reformed, Burrough-style. Completely baffling but thoroughly brilliant.

                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      1/ Folly
                                                                                      2/ Better In My Day
                                                                                      3/ Little Lambs
                                                                                      4/ Old Thorn
                                                                                      5/ Dieu Et Mon Droit
                                                                                      6/ Throne
                                                                                      7/ Mongrel
                                                                                      8/ Glory
                                                                                      9/ Tea Rooms
                                                                                      10/ Jerusalem
                                                                                      11/ Dance Of The Peddlers
                                                                                      12/ Hobby Horse
                                                                                      13/ Sunny Stories
                                                                                      14/ Over The Hills

                                                                                      Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert

                                                                                      Ghost Stories For Christmas

                                                                                        It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And in the old tradition, Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert invite you to gather round the fire for Ghost Stories for Christmas.

                                                                                        The album began with an idea for a song – forthcoming single A Ghost Story for Christmas. Originally intended as a one-off, seasonal release, it proved such fun to write that soon they had enough songs for an EP. “Then, on a nice, sunny, summer morning, I phoned Hubby and suggested we just do a whole album,” says Moffat. The album also features their cover of Yazoo’s synth classic Only You, already a popular number in their live set and the cover versions is topped off with a sombre rendition of Mud’s 1974 hit, Lonely This Christmas.

                                                                                        STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                        Barry says: There really is no way i'd rather listen to Christmas songs than with these two Scottish legends at the helm. Possibly a little more upbeat that the Low offering, but similarly brilliant, these are tenderly delivered and well-considered ballads for any time of year. Beautiful stuff.

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        1. Fireside
                                                                                        2. A Ghost Story For Christmas
                                                                                        3. Desire Path (Baby Please Come Home)
                                                                                        4. Such Shall You Be
                                                                                        5. Lonely This Christmas
                                                                                        6. Weihnachtsstimmung
                                                                                        7. The Fir Tree
                                                                                        8. Only You
                                                                                        9. Ode To Plastic Mistletoe
                                                                                        10. The Recurrence Of Dickens

                                                                                        Wavves & Culture Abuse

                                                                                        Up And Down / Big Cloud

                                                                                          Wavves and Culture Abuse have joined forces for a new single - ’Big Cloud’. The song follows the two bands hitting the road with Joyce Manor for a US tour last year, which has already resulted in a track called ’Up and Down’. Hailing from the Bay Area, Culture Abuse signed to Epitaph Records earlier this year. The band formed in 2013, releasing their debut album Peach in late 2016. Infusing its distortion-heavy garage punk with keyboard melodies and the occasional string arrangement, Peach fully embodies the Culture Abuse mission of “being free, enjoying life, and sharing love.” Culture Abuse is planning to release new music this year and will tour this spring with Turnstile and Touche Amore. WAVVES’ sixth album You’re Welcome arrived in 2017 on Ghost Ramp. It was praised by the AV Club as “Wavves’ finest moment to date.” Throughout the album, WAVVES singer/songwriter Nathan Williams explores his obsessions with everything from doo-wop to Cambodian pop to South American psychedelia.

                                                                                          Oly Ralfe

                                                                                          Notes From Another Sea

                                                                                            Meditative, melodic and quietly intense, Oly Ralfe’s debut solo album casts a spell, enveloping listeners as it conjures its shifting moods. The piano is key to Oly’s love of music, featuring on many Ralfe Band songs, and the instrumental Notes From Another Sea is Oly’s first album based entirely around the piano.

                                                                                            As Ralfe Band, Oly has released three studio albums and composed the soundtrack to Bunny and the Bull (Warp Films / Film 4). Ralfe Band have toured extensively and performed multiple sessions for BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2. Oly is also an award-winning filmmaker, and recently illustrated the novel A Field Guide to Reality by Joanna Kavenna (Quercus), his drawings described as ‘beautiful and affecting’ by the Times Literary Supplement.

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            The Bridge
                                                                                            A Forest In The City
                                                                                            On My Train
                                                                                            Hear Me Yourself
                                                                                            Melusine
                                                                                            Glider
                                                                                            Lantern Waltz
                                                                                            Which Is The Brighter
                                                                                            The Swallow Sleeps All Winter
                                                                                            Wanderers
                                                                                            Beqaa Road
                                                                                            All Our Rooms
                                                                                            Night Raven
                                                                                            Hill Queen

                                                                                            Pete Astor

                                                                                            One For The Ghost

                                                                                              This is a record born through time; seasoned and erudite Indie auteur, ex leader of Creation Records favourites The Loft and The Weather Prophets, Pete Astor brings together strands and tributaries in his work over the years, mining timeless guitar pop to frame wry lyrical insights and melodic hooks, making music for today, with a true line from the past and an eye to the future. Having released Spilt Milk (Fortuna Pop!) in 2016 to an overwhelmingly positive response, Astor continues the musical spirit of that album with James Hoare (Ultimate Painting, Proper Ornaments, Veronica Falls) remaining a mainstay on guitar. He is now joined by The Wave Pictures rhythm section of Franic Rozycki on bass and Jonny Helm on drums; Pam Berry of Withered Hand and Black Tambourine contributes vocals. 

                                                                                              Ghost Music

                                                                                              I Was Hoping You'd Pass By Here

                                                                                                Southend quartet Ghost Music release their evocative debut album I Was Hoping You’d Pass By Here via Arlen on 19 January. They create careful, considered songs, weaving lo-fi lullabies with gliding guitars and understated arrangements. Influenced by Silver Jews, Flying Nun and K Records, they explore themes of nature, love, loss and a melancholic English romanticism embellished with beautifully spectral melodies and executed with startling subtlety.

                                                                                                Despite this record being their debut, the band has produced a veritable wealth of music over the past 20 years in various guises. Ghost Music revolves around the songwriting partnership of Matt Randall and Lee Hall, who had played together in the 90s with John Peel favourites Beatglider. More recently Randall has received critical acclaim as Plantman, with his three albums Closer to the Snow, Whispering Trees and To The Lighthouse receiving praise from The Guardian, Uncut and Mojo. When Randall and Hall reunited to collaborate on another album together, they brought in the talents of Roy Thirlwall on bass (Melodie Group) and Leighton Jennings on drums (Dark Globes) to complete the band.

                                                                                                The original idea would be that the songs would be “ghosts” and create “ghost music” to resurrect and dust off old songs that they had already started. Lee had found the beginnings of “Home Dog” on a dusty old 4-track and he had recorded “Strange Love” on his iPhone in 2014, whilst Matt had written “My Cloud” as far back as 1997 (the night he moved out of his parents’ house). As the album began to take shape, the ghostly premise took a back seat, as they began to breathe new life into the songs they found the impetus to write new ones.

                                                                                                Randall explains the songwriting process; “When we were in Beatglider together and in the past we’d made a ‘thing’ out of writing long songs with a lot of changes. This time we pared it back a bit and stuck to the melodies more. We really wanted to make a proper guitar record. Lee’s my favourite guitarist and it was lovely to see him stretch out on these songs with his diamond fingers.”

                                                                                                Not afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves, Ghost Music’s sound is instantly familiar, echoing beloved bands from the 90s such as Pavement (“Home Dog” has a definite “Range Life” feel), Galaxie 500 (“Blindspot”), Yo La Tengo (“Heart Shaped Holiday” is influenced by the languid YLT songs that peak after a short intro) and even old-school rock’n’roll (“Strange Love” was born out of an appreciation for the instantly engaging opening riff in 50s songs). Yet Ghost Music’s work never feels derivative, being instead effortlessly emotive, melancholic and affecting, creating a world of sound that is hugely reassuring and a tonic for the modern age.


                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                1. Home Dog
                                                                                                2. Heart Shaped Holiday
                                                                                                3. Strange Love
                                                                                                4. We Could Get Along
                                                                                                5. This Kingdom One
                                                                                                6. Blindspot
                                                                                                7. Let's Meet
                                                                                                8. Queen Of England
                                                                                                9. Gurl In A Whorl
                                                                                                10. Blackbird Stars
                                                                                                11. Close Your Eyes
                                                                                                12. My Cloud
                                                                                                13. I'm No 

                                                                                                Im Hag is the debut Ghost Box album for Berlin based Sebastian Counts’ ToiToiToi, following on from his single for the label’s Other Voices series in 2015. It’s very detailed and lovingly produced music, crafted from electronic, synth, sampled and acoustic sources. Its a wunderkammer of an album crammed with original ideas. All at once managing to be witty, spooky, melodic and abstract.

                                                                                                The music and design explores the polarities of folklore vs modernity, and wilderness vs civilization. It’s an album about German culture but it pre-empts a nostalgia for the vanishing concept of internationalism, once exemplified by town twinning. It’s also a warm-hearted record, hopefully a tiny morale booster against Europe’s resurgent spectres. As always the beautiful CD and LP packaging is designed by Julian House.

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                1 - Alte Weise
                                                                                                2  - A Travel Agent's Dream
                                                                                                3  - Outside In
                                                                                                4 - Der Duft Der Wälder
                                                                                                5 - Mond In Den Ästen
                                                                                                6 - Cumulus Culture Centre
                                                                                                7 - Gummi-Marsch
                                                                                                8 - Leaving Backwards
                                                                                                9 - Im Schatten Großer Bäume
                                                                                                10 - Kilon
                                                                                                11 - Tanz Um Den Kopf
                                                                                                12 - Talkoller
                                                                                                13 - The So-So Kids
                                                                                                14 - Terminal To Nothingness
                                                                                                15 - Lichtfest
                                                                                                16 - Bei Der Hagschen
                                                                                                17 - Perpetuum Mobile

                                                                                                Ghost Outfit

                                                                                                I Want You To Destroy Me

                                                                                                Re-release of the classic Ghost Outfit album at a bargain price following the release of their second album last year..

                                                                                                Debut album by Manchester duo Ghost Outfit and the first full length release from the SWAYS label. Whilst other duos/ bands strive for 'stripped back' Ghost Outfit opt for layers of wild guitar ('Killuhs'), industrial drum rhythms ('Waste'), relentless grooves ('Kids'), restless drones ('Lexicon') and innovative ambience (' '). It's a record of schizo-fi intensity, straddling the line between melancholia and euphoria, melodic pop and teeth-grinding white noise.

                                                                                                Combining an appreciation for late 80s- early 90s bands The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Throbbing Gristle and Sonic Youth, with the modern omnivorous approach of bands such as No Age or Deerhunter the unexpected, unconventional quality of the album is only further enhanced.

                                                                                                Rivalling MBV's sheer explosive rawness-all static hiss, blown amps and shotgun drumming" - NME.

                                                                                                "an album of sheer unrelenting force. It skyrockets from the off" - thisisfakediy.


                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                Andy says: Doomy, heavy, but always in an inspiring way, this is a clever, powerful debut that could well take Ghost Outfit far.

                                                                                                The Pattern Forms is a collaborative project between Ed Macfarlane and Edd Gibson of Friendly Fires and Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle.

                                                                                                Peel Away the Ivy is the culmination of a fruitful collaboration that followed on from a debut single for Ghost Box’s Other Voices series in 2015.

                                                                                                On the surface this is a romantic pop album, but its roots lie in both bands’ shared love of soundtracks and electronic library music of the 70s and 80s.

                                                                                                The artists bring their own distinct sensibilities to the project but find a common ground that conjures up something entirely new to both. A balance of powerful pop hooks and sonic experimentation that masterfully evoke the melancholy of lost summers and lonely outsider reveries.

                                                                                                Heartrending ballads are lifted away on soaring electronics with beautiful pastoral and kosmiche instrumentals forming perfect atmospheric interludes.

                                                                                                Brooks and Macfarlane both have proven track records as outstanding producers and the sound here is, unsurprisingly, breath-taking.


                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                Barry says: A perfect mix of Jon Brooks' impeccably realised library/synth sound and the ethereal echoing vocals of the Ed(d)'s. Triumphant arpeggios and silky saw basses are injected with beautiful pad sweeps and delightfully neon synth solos. Melodic and thoughtful, resplendent with shine and exhibiting a how-to in perfect songwriting, this is a dreamy and breathtaking synth-pop masterpiece.

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                1. Peel Away The Ivy
                                                                                                2. Black Rain
                                                                                                3. Don't Let Me Dream
                                                                                                4. A Simple Walk
                                                                                                5. Daylight
                                                                                                6. Sparrowhawk
                                                                                                7. Man And Machine
                                                                                                8. Fluchtwege
                                                                                                9. Polymer Dawn
                                                                                                10. First In An Innocent World

                                                                                                Mark Lanegan

                                                                                                Whiskey For The Holy Ghost

                                                                                                  ‘Whiskey For The Holy Ghost’ is the second solo album from Mark Lanegan, originally released in 1994.

                                                                                                  The album builds upon the roots-music foundation Lanegan established with his debut ‘The Winding Sheet’.

                                                                                                  Released during the grunge explosion of the early 1990s, ‘Whiskey For The Holy Ghost’ showcases Lanegan’s growing maturity as a songwriter and vocalist. Lyrically, Lanegan continues to delve into the darker side of the human experience on songs like ‘Borracho’ and the biblical ‘Pendulum’.

                                                                                                  Dan Peters of Mudhoney guests on the album, playing drums on the songs ‘Borracho’ and ‘House A Home’.

                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  The River Rise
                                                                                                  Borracho
                                                                                                  House A Home
                                                                                                  Kingdoms Of Rain
                                                                                                  Carnival
                                                                                                  Riding The Nightmare
                                                                                                  El Sol
                                                                                                  Dead On You
                                                                                                  Shooting Gallery
                                                                                                  Sunrise
                                                                                                  Pendulum
                                                                                                  Judas Touch
                                                                                                  Beggar’s Blues

                                                                                                  Marconi Union

                                                                                                  Ghost Stations

                                                                                                    ‘Ghost Stations', the ninth studio album by Marconi Union, will be released in August. With Ghost Stations, Marconi Union’s music continues to straddle the world’s of artistic credibility and musical accessibility. They were not afraid to accept the challenge of making new music rather than just repeating their earlier work and were well aware of the risk of trying new things.

                                                                                                    After fourteen years of writing and performing, the trio – founder members Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley with keyboard player Duncan Meadows – are thought to be “amongst today's most talented musicians” The Sunday Times. They have continually steadily refined and developed a unique musical identity, gracefully blending together elements of dub, jazz, ambience and electronica within their richly melodic compositions, evoking emotions that set them apart from their peers.

                                                                                                    Before making a record Marconi Union usually have a clear idea about its ultimate direction. But this time, they decided to set aside any preconceptions, they spent the last two years experimenting with playing, programming, editing, re-editing, (agreeing and disagreeing) until Ghost Stations naturally evolved. Once the title was decided upon, everything fell into place connecting ideas of abandonment, empty spaces and dereliction.

                                                                                                    “We always want to move forward and try new things, there's no point in just treading water, so it was great to use a couple of guest musicians [Digitonal's Andy Dobson on clarinet and Girogio Li Calzi on trumpet]. Sometimes you need real playing, especially when it comes to feel”.

                                                                                                    Over the last fourteen years, their studio albums, 'Under Wires and Searchlights' (2003) (“sonically immaculate” Uncut), 'Distance' (2005) (“one of the most successful ambient albums of recent years” The Sunday Times), ‘A Lost Connection’ (2010) (“minimal, introspective, ethereal electronica – gorgeous” The Guardian), ‘Beautifully Falling Apart (2011) (“places MU firmly in the vanguard of acts making atmospheric, ambient music” Music OMH, Different Colours' (2012) (“a work of be-witching beauty” DMC), and their last album, Weightless (2014) (“an ethereal sense of free flowing dimensions” DJ Mag), have brought them to the attention of larger audiences and international critical acclaim.

                                                                                                    Lone Arrivals Presents Paul Gallagher Tapes

                                                                                                    Ghost Riding

                                                                                                    Ambient plucked guitar interspersed with churning drones, folklike textures relieve the suggestion of shadows. Patterns reveal themselves through repetition and perseverance, and beauty shines through at every turn. Ambient for those with a penchant for melody. Recalling early Alexander Tucker or GYBE! alumni Set Fire To Flames, Paul Gallagher has crafted a haunting collection of experimental drone pieces with heart and depth. Mysterious but uplifting, rewarding the patient with an understanding of Ghost Riding as a whole, a cohesive journey and a bracing one. Highly recommended, 

                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                    Andy says: Ghosts in the machine! Excellent stuff.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1. Codorphine
                                                                                                    2. Mule Bone
                                                                                                    3. Draked
                                                                                                    4. Drifters Fayre
                                                                                                    5. Feliner23
                                                                                                    6. Glow Seeds
                                                                                                    7. Midnight Latitude
                                                                                                    8. Two Note Celeriac
                                                                                                    9. Another Moon
                                                                                                    10. Sojourn
                                                                                                    11. Palace Meltdown
                                                                                                    12. The Returned

                                                                                                    We've managed to get our hands on a few copies of this European Tour CD compilation from Santiago, Chile's psyche rockers The Ganjas. 

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1 Ghost River
                                                                                                    2 Moonrise
                                                                                                    3 Cuadro Desierto
                                                                                                    4 Trip In The Eye
                                                                                                    5 After Dark
                                                                                                    6 Riot Dub
                                                                                                    7 Darkside
                                                                                                    8 Come-up
                                                                                                    9 Sonic Redemption
                                                                                                    10 Resistance
                                                                                                    11 Frozen Borderline
                                                                                                    12 La Lluvia No Quiere Caer
                                                                                                    13 Dance Hall
                                                                                                    14 100 Ways

                                                                                                    Wavves / Cloud Nothings

                                                                                                    No Life For Me

                                                                                                    No Life For Me is the highly anticipated collaborative album between Nathan Williams of Wavves and Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings via Williams’s own imprint, Ghost Ramp. The album was recorded at Williams’s home during sessions in March and June of 2014, with production from Sweet Valley.

                                                                                                    “For all their differences, a Wavves / Cloud Nothings collaboration makes a good deal of sense, and fans have been eagerly anticipating an album since it was officially announced back in March…. [The album] is a summery slice of punk that’s more SoCal than Ohio, even if Baldi can’t help but smear his unique brand of melancholy all over standout tracks like ‘Nervous’ and ‘Nothing Hurts’…. “No Life For Me is deeply indebted to early 1980s Southern California punk, a scene that’s probably buried deep in the soil of Williams’ mind by this point…. This is pop music executed with the no-frills precision of hardcore….” - Consequence of Sound.

                                                                                                    • Debut release from members of Wavves, Sweet Valley, Jeans Wilder 
                                                                                                    • Ten tracks of soaring harmonies over sludgy guitars.

                                                                                                    Brothers Joel Williams (Sweet Valley) and Nathan Williams (Wavves), alongside childhood best friend Andrew Caddick (Jeans Wilder), make music about loss that frays at the seams. Soaring harmonies over sludgy guitars and lush production create a sound all their own. “... a wooly slice of surf pop boasting enough fuzz on its fringes to leave listeners just a wee bit dazed.” -ConsequenceOfSound.



                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1. All The Time
                                                                                                    2. Eye Dozer
                                                                                                    3. Carousel
                                                                                                    4. Bless This Mess
                                                                                                    5. Duster
                                                                                                    6. Dream On
                                                                                                    7. Ripped
                                                                                                    8. Still Life
                                                                                                    9. Sling
                                                                                                    10. Ripped II

                                                                                                    Cherry Ghost return with third album ‘Herd Runners’ on Heavenly Recordings.

                                                                                                    For the last couple of years, Simon Aldred has been in a state of wilful musical schizophrenia. Since 2007, Bolton-born Aldred has - to all intents - been Cherry Ghost, a band known for perfecting a kind of widescreen North Western country soul. Yet the third Cherry Ghost album, ‘Herd Runners’, arrives after an extensive period in which Aldred’s own music been pulled in multiple different directions.

                                                                                                    Firstly, as a songwriter-for-hire, Aldred has helped nurture the best of nascent British talent (including hugely tipped artists like Sam Smith and Kwabs). Latterly, he produced a set of critically lauded post-midnight electronic love songs under the Out Cold guise. Somewhere in the middle, there’s the small matter of the phoenix-like rebirth of Aldred’s Ivor Novello winning 2007 single ‘People Help The People’ as it went on to chart highly in fourteen different countries in 2010 when it was covered by the teenage singer Birdy.

                                                                                                    Far from muddying the musical waters, each of these diversions has only helped sharpen Aldred’s songwriting, providing a major spur for the finest Cherry Ghost album to date. “Exploring different styles has helped my own songs,” says Aldred, “Musicians need to stretch themselves and keep on learning.” · It was that exploration that has helped bring ‘Herd Runners’ to life. Shifting from soaring, symphonic pop (‘Clear Skies Ever Closer’) to melancholic lock-in blues (‘Drinking For Two’) via an almost uncompromisingly hopeful rhythmic shuffle (‘The World Could Turn’), ‘Herd Runners’ is a sublime collection, a reminder of Aldred’s singular skill as a composer; a skill that can twist bitter loss into teary optimism (and back) in less time than it takes to toss a coin.

                                                                                                    Lyrically, the album paints Edward Hopper-esque observations of the lives of others. Where previous records would have focused on the gloomy edges of the picture, ‘Herd Runners’ takes something of a longer view. “These songs aren’t as dark as those on previous records. This time round I thought it was important to keep a real empathy for the people I’m writing about.”

                                                                                                    Recorded in Sheffield with longterm Richard Hawley collaborator Colin Elliot and mixed in Bath with Dan Austin, ‘Herd Runners’ is ten perfectly crafted tales of heartbreak and hope. That musical schizophrenia is clearly working wonders for Simon Aldred. Long may it continue.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    Clear Skies Ever Closer
                                                                                                    Don’t Leave Me Here Alone
                                                                                                    Fragile Reign
                                                                                                    Sacramento
                                                                                                    The World Could Turn
                                                                                                    Drinking For Two
                                                                                                    Herd Runners
                                                                                                    My Lover Lies Under
                                                                                                    Love Will Follow You
                                                                                                    Joanne

                                                                                                    Woman's Hour

                                                                                                    Her Ghost / I Need You

                                                                                                      Brand new UK signings for Secretly Canadian, Woman’s Hour, release their new 7” single.

                                                                                                      Woman’s Hour are already one of the most blogged and talked about bands of 2014, having spent 2013 touring and building a solid UK fanbase with their first two singles.

                                                                                                      The band have just opened for Anna Calvi on a string of shows and are soon to be seen playing with Metronomy, as well as a run of their own.

                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                      Andy says: Gorgeous, pulsing, 80's mix of chunky electronics and subtle guitars with a big, sad female vocal. Subtly epic and really rather good!

                                                                                                      To shift shapes, much less become shapeless, the Moondoggies had to change: their line-up, the way they communicated, recorded, and wrote. They would have to push beyond the public pigeonhole of being a bearded band from Seattle singing in harmony to give the breadth of their influences a space in the spotlight. For Adiós I’m a Ghost they drew from a diverse list of musical influences from Pink Floyd to Blonde Redhead, Mississippi John Hurt to Nirvana.

                                                                                                      Though they are oft compared to Laurel Canyon crooners or Southern swamp boogiers, Adiós I’m a Ghost is a quintessentially Northwest record. It speaks, with more than words, of tumultuous transformation -- changing pace as often as the weather on a Seattle spring day. Musically and lyrically, it balances light and dark, marrying the boisterous blues of their debut album Don’t Be a Stranger, the symphonic sadness of Tidelands, and a temperamental timbre previously unheard from the band.

                                                                                                      Recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock at Bear Creek Studios.

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      1. I'm A Ghost
                                                                                                      2. Red Eye
                                                                                                      3. Annie Turn Out The Lights
                                                                                                      4. Midnight Owl
                                                                                                      5. Pride
                                                                                                      6. A Lot To Give
                                                                                                      7. Stop Signs
                                                                                                      8. Start Me Over
                                                                                                      9. One More Chance
                                                                                                      10. Back To The Beginning
                                                                                                      11. Don't Ask Why
                                                                                                      12. Adi's I'm A Ghost

                                                                                                      Elvis Costello and The Roots have announced a collaborative album entitled Wise Up Ghost which is exclusively released.

                                                                                                      The existence of the record was first revealed by ?uestlove as an aside during an interview with Billboard Magazine in January and a small number of test pressings were distributed as white labels on Record Store Day on the 20th of April. Most of the sessions took place in secret at Feliz Habitat Studios in the dead of night, while others were in plain sight at Costello’s Hookery Crookery Studios.

                                                                                                      Elvis described the record as “the shortest distance between here and there” and containing “both rhythm and what is read”. Ahmir says, “It's a moody, brooding affair, cathartic rhythms and dissonant lullabies. I went stark and dark on the music, Elvis went HAM on some ole Ezra Pound shit.”

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      1.Walk Us Uptown
                                                                                                      2.Sugar Won’t Work
                                                                                                      3.Refuse To Be Saved
                                                                                                      4.Tripwire
                                                                                                      5.Stick Out Your Tongue
                                                                                                      6.Come The Meantimes
                                                                                                      7.(She Might Be A) Grenade
                                                                                                      8.Cinco Minutos Con Vos
                                                                                                      9.Viceroy’s Row
                                                                                                      10.Wise Up Ghost
                                                                                                      11.If I Could Believe

                                                                                                      TV Ghost’s third full-length for In The Red, Disconnect is a journey to the center of dreams. The Lafayette, Indiana, band displays a newfound maturity, incorporating churning rhythms and psychedelic drone into a lush torrent of gaseous keys, sprawling guitars and eerie melody. Think Porcupine-era Echo and the Bunnymen and Tago Mago-era Can run through a Cure Pornography blender.

                                                                                                      “TV Ghost’s 2009 debut LP, Cold Fish, is a maelstrom—10 hectic songs ripped out in 25 minutes. Stuffed to the seams with wiry guitars, trembling keyboards, crashing beats, and Tim Gick’s mad-man warble, it has the creepy tension of a post-punk haunted house where the Cramps, the Scientists, or Pere Ubu might leap out from the shadows at any moment. The band deftly balances precision and abandon—every moment sounds lunatic and unhinged, yet no track collapses into complete anarchy. “That abandon has subsided a bit on Mass Dream, which doubles the length of its predecessor despite having only one more track. That’s by design—Gick says that his intent was to “space things out more, let the songs breathe.” And while I miss Cold Fish’s farther-flung moments, the band has countered that loss with songs that are deeper and more open. Now, along with all the post-punk echoes rattling around, unexpected reference points pop up. At times I hear the enervated drama of Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, or the stridency of Ian Svenonius during his Nation of Ulysses days. And TV Ghost prove as adept at stark dread as they are at fevered bedlam....” —Pitchfork.

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      1. Five Colors Blind
                                                                                                      2. Veils
                                                                                                      3. Placid Deep
                                                                                                      4. Stranger
                                                                                                      5. Dread Park
                                                                                                      6. Elevator
                                                                                                      7. A Maze Of Death
                                                                                                      8. Cloud Blue Moments
                                                                                                      9. Others Will Be Born
                                                                                                      10. Siren

                                                                                                      Cherry Ghost

                                                                                                      We Sleep On Stones

                                                                                                        Album standout "We Sleep On Stones" is given the rework treatment by San Fran label Stones Throw affiliate Mr Chop & features Heliocentrics Malcolm Catto on drums and Jake Ferguson on bass. Comes backed with a once-in-a lifetime cover of Ce Ce Peniston’s uber-hit "Finally".

                                                                                                        Iron & Wine

                                                                                                        Ghost On Ghost

                                                                                                          Following 2011’s ‘Kiss Each Other Clean’, which debuted at number two on the US Billboard chart, ‘Ghost On Ghost’ is to be the fifth studio album from Austin-based Sam Beam.

                                                                                                          While Rolling Stone said of ‘Kiss Each Other Clean’ that “pop music hadn’t seen anything like it since the heyday of Cat Stevens,” and Pitchfork said it “more closely resembles the lush, gold-toned singer songwriter records of the late 60s and early 70s - ‘Astral Weeks’, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’”, Beam felt it time to move from what he called the “anxious tension” from this record and his previous one (‘The Shepherd’s Dog’). “This record felt like a reward to myself after the way I went about making the last few,” he says.

                                                                                                          Recorded in New York and produced by Beam’s longtime associate Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Fruit Bats), helping achieve Beam’s vision were a group of stellar musicians including Rob Burger of Tin Hat Trio, Steve Bernstein, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Briggan Krauss of Sex Mob, jazz drummer Brian Blade, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes of The Jazz Passengers, bassist Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan’s band), cellist Marika Hughes, Maxim Moston and Doug Wieselman of Antony And The Johnsons, and Anja Wood. Burger (Tin Hat Trio) has worked with Beam intermittently through the years and handled arrangements for strings and horns on ‘Ghost On Ghost’.

                                                                                                          For the album’s cover, Beam, who is also a visual artist, chose an image from the series ‘Private Views’ by noted photographer Barbara Crane.

                                                                                                          STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                          Andy says: Another mellow delight from Sam Beam. Lovely.

                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                          Caught In The Briars
                                                                                                          The Desert Babbler
                                                                                                          Joy
                                                                                                          Low Light Buddy Of Mine
                                                                                                          Graces For Saints And Ramblers
                                                                                                          Grass Windows
                                                                                                          Singers And The Endless Song
                                                                                                          Sundown (Back In The Briars)
                                                                                                          Winter Prayers
                                                                                                          New Mexico’s No Breeze
                                                                                                          Lovers’ Revolution
                                                                                                          Baby Center Stage

                                                                                                          Gravenhurst

                                                                                                          The Ghost In Daylight

                                                                                                            ‘The Ghost In Daylight’, an evocative and potent alchemy of mournful guitar work and haunting vocals, follows a four year silence from Bristol’s Gravenhurst.

                                                                                                            Gravenhurst (aka Nick Talbot) is a respected artist, lyricist, poet and satirist; part of a truly British lineage stretching through Jarvis Cocker, Neil Hannon and Morrissey to name a few. It’s been almost five years since the release of his acclaimed third album ‘The Western Lands’, yet support at media for Gravenhurst has only grown. The album is evocative of a dark and atmospheric place, ever-changing and conjured from disparate ingredients.

                                                                                                            Gravenhurst’s roots lie in the melodic noise of My Bloody Valentine, the lush vocal harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel, the alchemical guitars of Richard Thompson and Johnny Marr, and the widescreen ambient visions of Brian Eno.

                                                                                                            “Seriously wonderful” - Lauren Laverne, 6Music.

                                                                                                            “‘The Ghost In Daylight’ is a wondrous thing” - Quietus.

                                                                                                            “It sounds so beautiful” - Laura Snapes, NME.


                                                                                                            STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                            Darryl says: Beautiful and evocative new album from Nick Talbot AKA Gravenhurst on Warp Records. 'The Ghost In Daylight' is an intricate and mournfully atmospheric gem!

                                                                                                            Martyn

                                                                                                            Ghost People

                                                                                                              One artist Martyn's united with time and time again is Brainfeeder leader Flying Lotus. A close friend within whom he's always found creative alliance, the two decided to join forces on Martyn's sophomore album this September. With 'Ghost People', Martyn pulls Brainfeeder out of LA and straight into the fluorescent bounce of West London's 2-step, massaging the darker edge of Croydon's dub roots, and drum & bass's otherworldly and sci-fi sonics, while simultaneously moving through the grit of Detroit's mechanic grooves, and into the freewheeling vibe of Berghain. Yet, all the while, he maintains Brainfeeder's spirit of wild experimentalism and - as the title of his 'We Are You In The Future' suggests - sense of futurism at the forefront, with each of the album's unpredictable tracks. "I want to be known as someone that always surprises. I think some people have started to accept that. That's my favorite position to be in." says Martyn...


                                                                                                              Taking their name from the phenomenon of analog television frequency disturbances, Lafayette, Indiana’s "TV Ghost" conjures an especially sludgy and punishing brand of art-punk. They began making a name for themselves in 2007, when their first 7-inch, "Atomic Rain", was released by Die Stasi Records, also home to the noisy likes of Pink Reason and Zola Jesus. TV Ghost's sinister sound - which echoes the Scientists, Suicide and The Cramps’ ’70s output - and frantic live show won them an underground following; a 12-inch EP on Die Stasi, a single on Columbus Discount Records and their debut album, "Cold Fish", followed in 2009 with several rounds of touring the US in support. The band’s trek across Europe in 2010 left a trail of busted gear, annoyed booking agents and new fans behind them.

                                                                                                              TV Ghost’s sophomore full-length was recorded by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris), and "Mass Dream" is by far their clearest and most coherent release to date. While sacrificing none of the band’s scuzz-punk dementia, this album is far less dense and impenetrable than its predecessor; Ghost frontman Tim Gick’s lyrics are clearer and his complex song structure a bit easier to get a handle on. That said, this is still blood-boiling, spastic and down right evil music by anyone’s standards. Live, there are few who can match them. Their sets are explosive, destructive and out of control. Gick howls as if his bowels are being extracted through his gluteus, while his eyes roll back in his head and the rest of the band pummels away in noisy ecstasy. Every show they play is psychotic and chaotic perfection. "Mass Dream" is the first time it’s been captured on wax to perfection.


                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                              1. Wired Trap
                                                                                                              2. Sleep Composite
                                                                                                              3. The Winding Stair
                                                                                                              4. Cancor
                                                                                                              5. An Absurd Laceration
                                                                                                              6. The Inheritors
                                                                                                              7. Doppleganger
                                                                                                              8. Subterfuge
                                                                                                              9. The Degradation Of Film
                                                                                                              10. Tropes
                                                                                                              11. Mass Dream

                                                                                                              Gentleman Jesse Smith

                                                                                                              You've Got The Wrong Man / Stubborn Ghost

                                                                                                                Atlanta's favourite son, Gentleman Jesse Smith is back in a big way after he turned the modern pop world upside down with 2008's debut single and LP that immediately raised the bar for contemporary power pop recordings. We've been waiting for this release since 2007 and it's finally here. This year has seen Gentleman Jesse & His Men touring like crazy with a new single on Douchemaster along with this one right here, ushering in the second wind we've all been waiting for from this much-adored pop pioneer. This songwriting well isn't even close to running dry, and if the two tracks contained on this new single are any indication of the follow-up LP's magnitude, it may just be time to roll over and declare Jesse the modern 'King of Pop,' as we all know Michael fucking Jackson sure isn't holding onto it anymore. First pressing 500 black editions.

                                                                                                                Karen Elson's transformation from fashion’s favourite redheaded ingénue to beguiling chanteuse has been something of a slow burn. In 2003 she provided vocals for a version of Robert Plant's "Last Time I Saw Her" and in 2006 she recorded an English language version of "Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus" ("I Love You… Me Neither") with Cat Power for a Serge Gainsbourg tribute album, but her main musical outlet has been as a founding member of New York City cabaret The Citizens Band, a downtown collective of musicians, performers, artists and acrobats whose lively Weimar-esque performances have enjoyed successful theatrical runs of their politically thematic shows.

                                                                                                                The 11 original compositions on "The Ghost Who Walks" were all written following Karen Elson’s 2005 relocation from New York City to Nashville. While making her home – and raising two children - in the city of country music, Karen took to writing songs for The Citizens Band and found she had plenty of other melodies in her head. Her and spouse Jack White quickly put a band together: Karen’s cabaret cohort Rachelle Garniez on accordion and vocals, The Dead Weather's Jack Lawrence on bass, My Morning Jacket's Carl Broemel on pedal steel and brother-in-law Jackson Smith on guitar. Jack White took the role of producer and provided drums. Karen added a cover of Garniez's "Lunasa" to the recordings and within a matter of weeks she had an album's worth of material. Two of her more theatrical tracks, "100 Years From Now" and "Mouths To Feed", inspired in part by author Tim Egan’s dust bowl saga "The Worst Hard Time", were originally penned for her cabaret troupe. The rest of the album richly evokes the lonesome feel of country ("Cruel Summer"), the tormented side of the blues ("The Truth Is In The Dirt") and the haunted stories of traditional folk balladry ("Stolen Roses").

                                                                                                                Graphic artist Rob Jones took inspiration from Karen’s penchant for peach and black to create gorgeously smoldering album art.

                                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                Darryl says: A surprisingly excellent album from Jack White's missus, awash with sweet country tinged melodies.

                                                                                                                The Black Angels

                                                                                                                Directions To See A Ghost

                                                                                                                  Originally released in 2008.

                                                                                                                  Last time we met The Black Angels, they were staring into the desert sun somewhere outside of Austin, Texas. Two years later, night has fallen and the spirits have come out. It's time for The Black Angels to provide "Directions On How To See A Ghost". If you're familiar with "Passover", the band's 2006 debut, you'll know that The Black Angels's music alone is enough to invoke spirits. There's a name for the band's sound; they call it 'hypno-drone 'n roll'. It's the sound of long nights on peyote, of dreams of a new world order, and of half-invented memories of the seamy side of 60s psychedelia. While the Iraq war is still a major influence on the band's lyrics, there are new forces at work here, including Eugene Zamyatin's dystopian novel 'We' and – in Christian Bland's words – 'psychic information from the past and future.'

                                                                                                                  Findlay Brown

                                                                                                                  Losing The Will To Survive / I Will (Ghost Ship)

                                                                                                                    With influences ranging from Simon and Garfunkel, Jackson C. Frank, The Band, Spirit and Family to Funkadelic and Kraut-rock Findlay has a deep vein to mine for musical inspiration. These solo acoustic songs were recorded in the bedroom of his producer, Simon Lord, formerly the singer with psyche rockers Simian. They illustrate Fin's understanding of the craft of song-writing, an understanding he shares with the likes of David Crosby or Jose Gonzalez. Blessed with a voice that will inevitably melt hearts, Findlay drapes "Losing The Will To Survive" in lush vocal harmonies, reminiscent of a long lost classic. "I Will (Ghost Ship)" is a heart breakingly beautiful and intimate ballad. This is the first release on new label All Good Things, whose philosophy is to release accessible records big on personality, right across the musical genres.

                                                                                                                    Give Up The Ghost

                                                                                                                    Background Music

                                                                                                                      This debut full length from one of the most important bands in the contemporary hardcore scene. "Background Music"? It's anything but, in fact it's the sort of music that comes right up to you and pokes you in the eye, rips your arm off and clubs you with the bloodied stump. The band changed its name to Give Up The Ghost after the original American Nightmare, a band based outside of Philadelphia, objected to the use of their name and trademark. Wes Eisold has a voice from the primordial slime and Tim Cossar and Brian Masek use their guitars like lethal weapons. Oh boy they're nasty. It's fast-paced, heavy music with throaty vocals and intense, angry lyrics. A blend of traditional hardcore, punk and metal that takes no prisoners and expects no mercy.

                                                                                                                      The Ghost

                                                                                                                      This Is A Hospital

                                                                                                                        Some Records continue their fine pedigree of releasing top quality emo like Hot Water Music with the debut album from young Californians The Ghost. Recorded by Steve Albini combination of emo songwriting and pop sensibility. Loud, urgent and intense. Emocore at it's finest and most creative.


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