The Black Ghosts-The Black Ghosts-2008-RTB torrent

ARTIST: The Black Ghosts
TITLE: The Black Ghosts
LABEL: IAMSOUND
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 203kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 38m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-07-08
RIP DATE: 2008-06-19

Track List

1. Some Way Through This 4:02
2. Anyway You Choose To Give It 3:37
3. It's Your Touch 3:55
4. Repetition Kills You 3:43
5. Until It Comes 3:22
6. I Want Nothing 2:47
7. Full Moon 3:51
8. I Don't Know 3:13
9. Something New 2:59
10. Don't Cry 3:40
11. Force 3:27

Release Notes:

The new album from Simian's Simon Lord and The Wiseguys' Theo Keating, recording
together as The Black Ghosts, is an eerily melodramatic affair but some
undeniably ominous credentials back up The Black Ghosts? tales of modern gothic
romance
Theo?s godfather directed Hammer House of Horror movies, which exposed him to
their supernatural charms from a very early age. Simon, too, experienced a
disquieting form of bohemia during his easily-influenced years. His grandmother,
Madeleine Dring, was a music hall satirist and was considered a psychic
Aside from youthful contact with the occult both Theo & Simon?s childhoods were
steeped in music. Theo was a vinyl junky for as long as he could remember, by
the age of 12 he had immersed himself in the world of Hip-Hop and by 16 he was
an accomplished DJ. Meanwhile, Simon?s grandfather was part of the London
Symphony Orchestra's woodwind section. "He played the oboe on the Star Wars
theme" says Simon, "which meant absolutely nothing at the time, and on various
Beatles tracks, including A Day in the Life, which he also just wrote off as
'some rock thing'. Simon's father, however, had a more progressive attitude to
sound, building synthesizers that translated plants? electrical fields into
sound and creating a white noise dream machine for his children
The whole Black Ghosts project has been informed by these experiences "I suppose
we're aiming for that combination of very listenable music with rather
disturbing lyrics," says Theo. "For instance, I was originally inspired not just
by modern producers like Daft Punk and Timbaland, but musicians such as Serge
Gainsbourg and David Axelrod. I'd compose a backing track and Simon put lyrics
to it, or vice versa.
"Theo doesn't come from the sort of muso background that means he's always
getting me to check out his jazz chords," adds Simon. "His experience comes from
DJing, so the music he produces for me to write over has plenty of backbone and
strong hooks. And I was never compromised by having to come up with lines in the
studio with the rest of the band mucking about around me. I got to write the
Black Ghosts LP by myself in a room with only suitably dim lamplight for
company.
Theo adds, "They're slightly psychotic torch songs? love songs, but hardly of
the 'Baby, let's be together' variety. You never get that sense of blind rage
that relationships can so easily produce, for example, in pop songs normally.
Any Way You Choose to Give It, the eponymous LP's dance floor stormer, finds its
protagonist in an unenviable, but familiar position - feeling randy, but racked
with doubt and cynicism. " I challenge you to make the wrong move,? sings Simon,
outraged by the object of his lust's supposed perfection. On Some Way Through
This, The Black Ghosts become tormented by the faulty human instinct to make
mutual happiness as difficult to achieve as possible. While Theo's electronic
orchestra stabs with an assassin's grace, Simon implores the source of his
frustration that he " Will do whatever it takes to put a smile upon your face "
and laments that it's only "If my hands were around your throat would you tell
me what I need to know." During It's Your Touch, a casual cynic tries to reason
out his new found love, only settling for a base, feral attraction as convincing
enough stimulus. "I guess you're wondering what I'm doing for you? And I guess
that I'm wondering quite the same thing?" Simon drawls, exasperated, as Theo's
West Coast folk-rock accompaniment exudes louche indulgence and a dangerous
wistfulness.
Current activity has seen Theo & Simon taking their mercurial two-man decks, FX
and vocal set-up on the road to a rapturous reception during both their
Australian tour and SXSW shows. A Vice US tour is lined up for May and The Black
Ghosts will be playing a host of festival spots including Gatecrasher, Rock Ness
and Glastonbury. Their recent ?Mixtape? compilation, which offered an early
glimpse into their collect

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