Like Spring Awakening, But With MPCs
Maybe it was just a case of post-SXSW/WMC immune-system shutdown, but April ended up being a pretty quiet, drizzly month in the Ghostly camp. Kate Simko's stunning Music From the Atom Smashers notwithstanding, we spent much of April re-gathering our strength for the mad, massive month of May. Here's what's up: Deastro's busting out all over with a new single ("Vermillion Plaza"), album (Moondagger), and profile video
in the can; School of Seven Bells are touring the UK and US behind a new single of their own ("My Cabal"); orchestral-pop group Choir of Young Believers debut with their epic single "Action/Reaction"; and Ghostly's old friends Mobius Band are celebrating the UK release of their album Heaven with a little help from their buddies in Editors
. This month's GhostlyCast podcast, a mid-'80s jam called "Dollar Dance," comes courtesy of Travis "TK" Disko.
May's got a few solid events as well, including the Detroit edition of our ongoing 10th-anniversary party (pick up advance tix at The Ghostly Store), a hoard of Ghostly/Spectral artists at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and The Sight Below and Lusine storming Montreal's MUTEK festival.
Lastly, a whistle-wetter: we've got a Ghostly iPhone application in the works. All we can say for now is that it'll be free, and it'll provide a new way for you to discover music. (Sign up for updates here).
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Deastro
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Vermillion Plaza (digital single)
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The second single from Randolph Chabot's upcoming full-length debut squashes plucky synth arpeggios, end-of-the-world choruses, and joyously careening melodies into a life-affirming three minutes and 50 seconds.
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Coming Soon »
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School of Seven Bells
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My Cabal (12"/digital single)
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The Brooklyn shoegazers' newest single is a a sophisticated dream-pop anthem, invoking technology and the supernatural via a drum-machine throb, a few chiming guitars, and a tingly, My Bloody Valentine-style atmospheric “whoosh.”
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Coming Soon »
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Choir of Young Believers
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Action/Reaction (digital single)
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The debut single from our newest signees. The song's loping beat and air of symphonic grandeur may be the first things you notice, but it’s Choir of Young Believers’ namesake vocal polyphony that keeps the goosebumps a-coming.
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Kate Simko
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Music from the Atom Smashers
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137 Films' documentary The Atom Smashers follows particle physicists on their search for "The Holy Grail of Physics," the Higgs Boson particle. Kate Simko's luminous score combines ambient drones, lush orchestral textures, and lighter-than-air techno.
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Out Now »
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