A storm’s brewing in Manchester and Ghost Outfit (facebook/twitter) are to blame. Offering schizo-fi , experimental noise and franticly delivered pop, Ghost Outfit become gladly claustrophobic consuming every inch of your aural senses so much so that your ears feel like they’ve run a marathon.
The E.P, Young Ghosts, was released in June and offers a sound that distorts as many things as possible; leaving you to wonder whether time signatures and acoustic guitar ever actually existed. Side one of Young Ghosts offers a plethora of shoegaze inspired, high tempo tracks with incomprehensible lyrics that I’m sure make for a live show that would rival pyrotechnics and strobe lighting any day. Tracks like What You’ve Got and Too Soon To Say show that too much distortion is never enough distortion. I Was Good When I Was Young again offers an explosion of guitar whilst blasting confidently lyrics that The Horrors would probably call a sonnet.
It’s not all crash, bang, wallop though- Ghost Outfit have a tender side. If their fast, garage rock had made you think differently, songs such as showcases their musical intelligence. Ghost Outfit like to experiment and if experimenting really isn’t your thing then stick to the aforementioned songs. However, if like me, you like to dip your toe into the ambient and odd from time to time then Yeah, It’s You and Cough will have you buzzing.
Ghost Outfit – Too Soon To Say
Ghost Outfit – I Was Good When I Was Young
Ghost Outfit – Boy
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