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* Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal *
ARTIST..: TV Ghost
ALBUM...: Cold Fish
GENRE...: Alternative
STYLE...: Post-Punk, Noise, Synth Punk, Garage Punk, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
YEAR....: 2009
LABEL...: In The Red Recordings
COUNTRY.: USA
PLACE...: Lafayette, IN
FORMED..: 2006
ENCODER.: LAME 3.100 -V0
BITRATE.: 271 kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SOURCE..: CD
TRACKS..: 10
SIZE....: 48.97 MB
URL..: https://www.facebook.com/TVGhost
https://www.discogs.com/release/4412045-TV-Ghost-Cold-Fish
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/tv_ghost/cold_fish
- TRACKLIST
1 The Consumption 2:14
2 The Network 2:24
3 The Drunkard 2:13
4 Seasick 2:33
5 The Singularity 2:20
6 The Recluse 2:18
7 Bastille 1:48
8 Greek 2:09
9 Paradigm 2:44
10 Cold Fish 4:18
Total Playtime: 25:01
Against all odds, there is still cause to be excited when skinny, white kids
with Lyle Lovette hair discover feedback.
TV Ghost's debut full-length, Cold Fish, is a truly raw, rock & roll
cataclysm that stands as quite an achievement for such a young band. These
Lafayette, Indiana residents drive with a youthful discord that shrieks like
a freight-train covered with aluminum foil and thumb tacks.
The closet approximation I can afford TV Ghost is that of a Monks cover band
collaboration between Suicide and Drive Like Jehu, fronted, from several
rooms and closed doors away, by a really high Lux Interior. Or maybe even the
B-52s.
At any rate, the paranormal reference is not idle. Cold Fish, the band's
first for In The Red, might be the score of a haunted house film in which
tense, string-arrangements are sacrificed for an epileptic, noise-mare that
sounds like, "Oh shit." Jackson Vanhorn and co. phrase their art punk garbage
with the care of a free jazz sax-man, expertly marking the difference between
urgency and novelty. From opener, "The Consumption" on, Cold Fish is every
bit as dangerous and well-crafted as a catastrophic mess can be.
Expel all doubt: TV Ghost have just pissed a much-needed and epic new line in
the sandbox of bratty, noise-makers.
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About:
Taking their name from the phenomenon of analog television frequency
disturbances, Lafayette, Indiana's TV Ghost began as purveyors of an
especially sludgy and punishing brand of art-punk. The band formed in 2006,
with vocalists/guitarists Tim Gick and Jimmy Frezza recruiting keyboardist
Brahne Hoeft and drummer Jackson VanHorn. Their first 7", "Atomic Rain," was
released by Die Stasi Records, also home at the time to the noisy likes of
Pink Reason and Zola Jesus. The band's sinister sound -- which echoed the
Scientists and the Cramps' mid-'70s output -- and frantic live shows won them
an underground following. Late in 2007, Frezza left the band to go to art
school, and bassist Shawn Beckering joined the fold in time to record a
nine-song EP that arrived in early 2008. That year, TV Ghost signed to In the
Red to release a full-length album and appeared at the label's South by
Southwest showcase. The band also released The Fiend/Prodome as a part of
Columbus Discount's Single of the Month Club in May 2009, a few months before
their debut full-length Cold Fish surfaced. In 2010, VanHorn departed; Hoeft
took over drumming duties and Frezza returned as keyboardist. Gick, Hoeft,
and Frezza recorded the band's second album, Mass Dream, and TV Ghost then
embarked on a lengthy tour of the U.S. and Europe. Once the tour was
finished, Beckering left and TV Ghost recruited bassist Tristan Ivas. In the
Red released Mass Dream in April 2011, and the following year the
Phantasm/Panic Area single arrived on Sweet Rot Records. Later in 2012,
VanHorn rejoined TV Ghost as a guitarist, and this lineup of the band opted
for a slower, more expansive sound influenced by Echo and the Bunnymen and
the Cure. The hypnotic Disconnect, which featured production work by Chris
Woodhouse, arrived in September 2013.
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Shoegaze
is a genre of alternative rock that
originated in the late 80s. The genre is very
difficult to define, and it is even more difficult to evaluate music
within it. Generally, the genre is characterized by its
shimmering vocals, reverberating guitars, and
textural distortion that create
a tranquil, opaque
feeling.
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