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September, 2011 Monthly archive

Ghost Outfit

A storm’s brewing in Manchester and Ghost Outfit (facebook/twitter) are to blame. Offering schizo-fi , experimental noise and franticly delivered pop, Ghost Outfit become gladly claustrophobic consuming every inch of your aural senses so much so that your ears feel like they’ve run a marathon.

The E.P, Young Ghosts, was released in June and offers a sound that distorts as many things as possible; leaving you to wonder whether time signatures and acoustic guitar ever actually existed. Side one of Young Ghosts offers a plethora of shoegaze inspired, high tempo tracks with incomprehensible lyrics that I’m sure make for a live show that would rival pyrotechnics and strobe lighting any day. Tracks like What You’ve Got and Too Soon To Say show that too much distortion is never enough distortion. I Was Good When I Was Young again offers an explosion of guitar whilst blasting confidently lyrics that The Horrors would probably call a sonnet.

It’s not all crash, bang, wallop though- Ghost Outfit have a tender side. If their fast, garage rock had made you think differently, songs such as showcases their musical intelligence. Ghost Outfit like to experiment and if experimenting really isn’t your thing then stick to the aforementioned songs. However, if like me, you like to dip your toe into the ambient and odd from time to time then Yeah, It’s You and Cough will have you buzzing.

Ghost Outfit – Too Soon To Say
Ghost Outfit – I Was Good When I Was Young
Ghost Outfit – Boy

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Clubfeet

Clubfeet (facebook/twitter) have been a busy bunch with their Gold On Gold record getting rave reviews across the board (and far more plays than is healthy here at Walrus Towers), and now they’re branching into video with the Gold on Gold Video Project with Sydney fashion videographer Alex Goddard. Cue some hot bodies in NSFW poses.

Last Words is the latest single from that project and we’ve got the always perfect RAC remix for you lovers to download. Its all clean bassline and snap beats, before being sprinkled with electronic glitter. Dreamy.

Clubfeet – Last Words (RAC Maury Mix) by RAC
Grab yourself the free MP3 HERE

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Ben Sommers - Avocado Chip

Ben Sommers (facebook/twitter) has taken this whole story-telling through music to beyond its normal four-minute boundary to a whole album in the form of Avocado Chip and a accompanying novel. I’ve embedded a few pages of the novel, but this is a music blog and that is what I’ll focus on…

Lyrically he’s built the album around the fictional town of Starving Jane – a “funny old town” to quote the opening track. He weaves the stories of greed and triumph between twisted musical genres, breaking paths down to strike on anew.

Musically the album darts from place to place, from the hypnotic Sapien Express that reminds me a little of the electronic folk sound of Tunng – to the subtle and honest Elephant You. That the music is not the whole show is apparent on some songs like Every Flower Dies Someday that doesn’t quite hold attention on its own. But its when you hear the whole album together that Sommers raconteur skill becomes apparent.

It’s an album in the troubadour tradition, with a story at its soul – a soundtrack of the dystopian modern world narrated and scored by Sommers.

Avocado Chip is out on Sunday on 360 Degree Music.

Ben Sommers – Sapien Express
Ben Sommers – Elephant, You

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