Glass_Ghost-Idol_Omen-2009-FNT

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MP3/FLAC
Group
FNT
Size
40,33 MB
Files
8
Date
2009-12-26

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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Glass Ghost
  Album:       Idol Omen
  Label:       Western Vinyl
  Playtime:    31:11 min
  Genre:       Indie
  URL:         http://myspace.com/glassghost
  Rip date:    2009-12-26
  Street date: 2009-12-00
  Size:        42.28 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     180 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -



   The music of Glass Ghost, a Brooklyn duo assisted on Idol Omen by guest stars
   like Luke Temple and Joan Wasser, is eerie and elusive-- the musical
   equivalent of a word on the tip of your tongue. Eliot Krimsky sings about
   everyday mysteries in a relaxed, uncanny falsetto, tending to keyboards that
   dryly flicker and drone. Instruments from the classical world, as well as
   various junk percussion and vocal harmonies, meld unobtrusively, with the
   same laconic drift. The songs feel paradoxically compact and diffused, thanks
   to Mike Johnson's careful blend of live and electronic drums. His
   gauze-wrapped take on hip-hop makes all the wispy scrollwork feel
   unaccountably durable and lively.

   Just looking through Glass Ghost's early press clues you in to the
   difficulties of classifying them-- people have already cited Deerhoof,
   Captain Beefheart, Dirty Projectors, and J Dilla, comparisons that range from
   approximate to baffling. Glass Ghost truly resemble just one band I can think
   of, and them only abstractly: the Dismemberment Plan circa Change, whittled
   down to the most salient gestures. It's all there on opening track "Time
   Saving Trick"-- the hip-hop swing disarticulated in shining banks of fog, the
   wafting existentialism, the unspoken melancholy. And "Mechanical Life", with
   pointillist bass and skating keyboards, is mostly about brushing your teeth
   in a mirror. It perfectly captures the sort of mundane, displaced, anxious
   introspection that the Dismemberment Plan borrowed from Talking Heads and ran
   with so fruitfully.

   That said, Glass Ghost is less lovable than the Dismemberment Plan-- perhaps
   less ingratiating. They're relentlessly sleepy and captivating, all
   "Sentimental Man" and no "Following Through". The complacent tonal register,
   Krimsky's dusky singing, and the deliberate scrawniness of the music all
   promise to be highly divisive, as most unique things are. And there are a few
   moments when the taste level falters-- on "Ending", when Krimsky sings,
   "There's a place way up high where I hold my soul and cry," you hope he gets
   back to cryptic circumlocution quickly. "The Same" sports a poppier, more
   bugged-out look that Glass Ghost wear a bit less comfortably than swirling
   evasion. They're at their best on "Time Saving Device" and "Mechanical Life",
   not to mention "Divisions", with its ice-drop synth arpeggios, or "Like a
   Diamond", where a piercing vocal melody floats over keyboards like reflected
   clouds on scattered rain puddles. This is subtle, spooked, reflective music--
   a distracted elegy for something or other.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Time Saving Trick                                                 ( 3:31)
  02. Mechanical Life                                                   ( 3:29)
  03. Divisions                                                         ( 2:57)
  04. The Same                                                          ( 5:04)
  05. Like a Diamond                                                    ( 3:31)
  06. Violence                                                          ( 2:32)
  07. What I've Seen                                                    ( 5:00)
  08. Ending                                                            ( 5:07)

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Files

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01-glass_ghost-time_saving_trick.mp34,70 MB
02-glass_ghost-mechanical_life.mp34,81 MB
03-glass_ghost-divisions.mp33,99 MB
04-glass_ghost-the_same.mp36,65 MB
05-glass_ghost-like_a_diamond.mp33,87 MB
06-glass_ghost-violence.mp33,25 MB
07-glass_ghost-what_ive_seen.mp36,49 MB
08-glass_ghost-ending.mp36,57 MB