| Dirty Ghosts / Let It Pretend |
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| Album: | Let It Pretend | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Dirty Ghosts | Added: | Dec 2015 | |
| Label: | Last Gang | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-01-25 | Pull Date: | 2016-03-27 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 28 | Feb 21 | Feb 14 | Feb 7 | Jan 31 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 08, 2019: | wig out at denny's Let It Pretend | 4. | Mar 09, 2016: | Home on the Range Light Like Speed, Let It Pretend | |
| 2. | Mar 27, 2016: | Breakaway Bluff on Easter Holis Moving Pictures | 5. | Mar 01, 2016: | The Library So Shallow | |
| 3. | Mar 16, 2016: | The Snotty The Kitten Show So Shallow | 6. | Feb 27, 2016: | The Snotty The Kitten Show Some Kids |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Aporia Reviewed 2016-01-08 | ||
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Mostly garage rock with the occasional stellar post-punk + Sleater-Kinney type track. Vocals sound a lot like Carrie Brownstein. Power chords and screaming guitars, vox. RIYL Sleater-Kinney, New War, Interpol, Sonic Youth 1. (3:58) Some Kids - Angry electric guitar and dark bass. Post-punk vibes. 2. (4:39) * Battery - Furiously plodding guitar and vocals. Light keyboards come in 1:00. Garage rock. Awesome groovy bassline from 2:53 until the end. 3. (4:06) ***** Let It Pretend - The lovechild of Sonic Youth and Sleater-Kinney. Pretty electric solo at 2:20. 4. (4:00) *** Light Like Speed - Prominent, deep vocals. Steady, ominous, tight grip. Music for headbanging. A male’s recorded voice comes in around 2:30. Feeling that Sonic Youth x Sleater-Kinney connection again. Faint, dark humming in the background. Chaotic keyboards and escalating guitars at the end. 5. (3:07) Quicksand Castle - Searing electric guitar solo at 1:30. Power chords. Propulsive bassline and drumming. This seems like such a prototypical garage band song to me but I love its sincere simplicity. 6. (3:18) Cataract - “You’re like a cataract covering my eyes from falling”. Metaphors of vision. Notable bassline. This would sound so awesome live. 7. (3:58) ** Hologram - Piercing electric guitar solo at beginning. Very anthemic. So much guitar. Greaaaat lyrics about building a hologram to trace the shape of someone’s eyes (still trying to figure out how that would work…). Loud bass. 8. (3:45) ***** So Shallow - Cool Gary Numan-esque outer-space synth and bass intro. Repetitive synth melody. So post-punk. This bassline gives me life. 9. (4:17) ** Siamese Dogs - Loud, aggressive, driving. Really showcases how powerful the vocalist’s voice is. Occasional bouts of cascading, blood orange, new wave guitar. Aquatic synths guide the outro to the song’s epic conclusion. 10. (2:32) Moving Pictures - Another anthem. Punk influence. Blistering guitar solo starting at 1:05, before diving back into the forebodingly fast bassline. Keeps escalating for a while before fading out around 2:10. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Some Kids | 6. | Cataract | |||
| 2. | Battery | 7. | Hologram | |||
| 3. | Let It Pretend | 8. | So Shallow | |||
| 4. | Light Like Speed | 9. | Siamese Dogs | |||
| 5. | Quicksand Castle | 10. | Moving Pictures |