Artist.......: The Ghost Is Dancing
Album........: Battles On
Label........: Sonic Unyon
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: SUNCD1212
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Apr-28-2009
str.date.....: Apr-28-2009
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.theghostisdancing.com/
track title time
01. Dream of a Failed Architect 03:50
02. Battles On 03:39
03. Rogues & Heroes 04:15
04. This Thunder 03:35
05. Stick Together 03:24
06. Louis Riel 03:30
07. Strange Times 04:09
08. Balles Off 04:27
09. Was A Universe 02:25
10. Flashing Pictures 08:39
11. Old Children 04:08
12. Without Friends 02:32
Runtime 48:33 min
Size 69,9 MB
Release Notes:
The Ghost is Dancing began as many bands begin, in
a moldy basement during university. Kevin Corlis,
Jim DeLuca, Jamie Matechuk and Odie Ouderkirk were
returning home via Toronto's Spadina Ave, sweaty
and exuberant after a Hidden Cameras show at the
Horseshoe Tavern when they decided that they wanted
to start a band. Jamie had spent the last year
learning how to play Modest Mouse songs and Kevin
was always banging away at his collection of
keyboards and drums at home, plus Jim had been
wanting his friends to play music with him since
they first met in kindergarten. Gabrielle Nadeau
lived upstairs and picked up an accordion, Eric
Krumins eventually joined on bass, and soon they
were asking everyone they knew to join. Somewhere
between all their energies rested dozens and dozens
of pop hooks and their first major battle was to
find a way to put it all together.
The first self-titled EP was charming in its
do-it-yourself-ness, and expressed the sheer joy
the band felt performing and writing those songs.
The EP received critical acclaim and the band drew
immediate comparisons to The Arcade Fire, Broken
Social Scene and Modest Mouse, which all made
perfect sense. Those were their favourite bands.
Soon after their EP release they signed with Sonic
Unyon Records and began work on their first LP, The
Darkest Spark. In the fall of 2006 they recorded
with Dale Morningstar at Gas Station Studios and in
June 2007 they released The Darkest Spark to raving
reviews from NOW, Chart and Spin Magazine and
followed with performances on MTV, CBC and
alongside The Hidden Cameras, Rogue Wave and Man
Man.
Shortly after their first national tour The Ghost
is Dancing shrunk in size. The economical rigours
of touring, rehearsing and living with giant
student debts had taken their toll. Throughout
these changes, however, song-writing had continued
and their musicianship had improved. Over the next
year, TGID found themselves invading late-night
swimming pools in Kentucky, barely avoiding head-on
collisions in Quebec, and taking off all of their
clothes in the back of a record store in
Charlottetown. They would tour with new songs, new
members, craft a tighter, more explosion live act
and finish writing their next record, literally
titled Battles On with Chris Stringer (Rush,
Ohbijou, Timbre Timbre, The Coast).
Battles On is a record built out of desperation and
the exuberance of holding something special
together. Laden with even bigger pop-hooks than
before, but with a go-for-broke attitude and
mindfulness towards the craft of songwriting, the
record rarely lets up and delivers on the promise
of a band which has come into its own.