Ghosty

I picked up this curious little album end of last summer, not knowing anything about it but the rumors that Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips had made a vocal contribution to one of the tracks after stumbling across Ghosty's recording session and being so impressed. Needless to say, Ghosty in no way reflects the music of the Lips (as if any band could) but instead floats on that cloud of pop/rock loveliness inhabitted by so many of our beloved musicians.
Upon first listen I wasn't taken aback, but more drawn in by the subtly of the hooks being sunken into my brain, and the voice, which on rare occasion approached a Jim James/Ben Bridwell timbre, but the actual lyrical arrangement gave the album such a flow, it is one of those albums you have to hear straight thru.
Anyhow, I heard they have a new album in the works, in fact true, and very near completion. The new record, entitled No Nothing, and having no definite scheduled release date ("sometime soon"), is one that I'm definitely looking forward too, as it was made in significantly less time than the six years it took frontman Andrew Connor to release Grow Up Or Sleep In, which has had a hold over me, for the time being.

Take a breather:
Ghosty - Henry Greene
Ghosty - Hey! Somebody
Ghosty - Big Surrender
Ghosty - Clouds Solve It

And yes, that is Coyne adding a guest vocal on Clouds Solve It.
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