{"title":"Ghostly International","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhostly International is a renowned music label based in Brooklyn, New York City. Established in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV, the label has become a prominent figure in the electronic music scene. With its diverse roster of talented artists and innovative releases, Ghostly International continues to push boundaries and shape the future of music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years, Ghostly International has garnered a reputation for its distinct sound and commitment to quality. The label's catalog spans various genres including electronic, ambient, techno, and experimental music. From established acts to emerging talents, Ghostly International consistently delivers exceptional musical experiences that captivate listeners worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its headquarters situated in one of the world's most vibrant cities for music and culture, Ghostly International draws inspiration from the dynamic energy of New York City. The label's forward-thinking approach coupled with its dedication to artistic integrity has earned it widespread acclaim and a loyal fanbase.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shinbangumi","title":"Shinbangumi","description":"\u003cp\u003eStep inside the world of Ginger Root. Cameron Lew makes it easy to do so; every considered detail is his own manifestation, written, designed, and executed as an all-encompassing diorama of sound and sight. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, and visual artist from Southern California, Lew has crafted his project steadily since 2017, inviting a fervent and growing legion of fans into storylines drawn across mediums: captivating albums with accompanying films and globe-spanning tours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ginger Root sound — handmade yet immaculately polished synth-pop, alt-disco, boogie, and soul — takes shape through Lew's lens as an Asian-American growing up enamored by 1970s and '80s music, specifically the creative and cultural dialogue between Japanese City Pop and its Western counterparts from French Pop to Philly Soul to Ram-era McCartney. He spins his retro-minded influences and proliferates savvily in the present, synthesizing a songwriter's wit, an editor's eye, and a producer’s resource into something singular and modern. It finds Lew more poised, idiosyncratic, and intentional than ever in a new chapter of life, unlocking \"exactly what Ginger Root should sound and feel like,\" he says. \"In terms of instrumentation and musicality, it's the first time that I felt very confident and comfortable with what everything should be comprised of. On the more personal side, I'm coming out of the last four years of writing, touring, and living as a different person; \u003ci\u003eShinbagumi\u003c\/i\u003e is a platform to showcase my new self.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":50380141396299,"sku":"2201247","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50380141297995,"sku":"2201246","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50380141592907,"sku":"2203670","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50380141134155,"sku":"2201244","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/GINGER_ROOT_-_SHINBANGUMI_-_PACKSHOT_63de70b4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726209032"},{"product_id":"minecraft-vol-beta","title":"Minecraft Volume Beta","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs C418, composer and producer Daniel Rosenfeld designs sounds to resonate in both physical and pixelated realms. Best known for his original soundtracks to \u003cem\u003eMinecraft\u003c\/em\u003e, the single best-selling video game of all time, he's developed a discography of instrumental music over the last decade that traverses electronic pop patterns, neo-classical dreamscapes, and sparse ambient motifs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe latter element has broken from the \"8-bit\" pigeonholing of game music and earned him accolades that reference artists like \u003cem\u003eErik Satie\u003c\/em\u003e (The Guardian) and \u003cem\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/em\u003e (VICE). In 2015, after quietly self-releasing \u003cem\u003eMinecraft Volume Alpha\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMinecraft Volume Beta\u003c\/em\u003e, Rosenfeld partnered with Ghostly International to reissue \u003cem\u003eMinecraft Volume Alpha\u003c\/em\u003e on vinyl and CD. The release garnered attention from proper music critics and the gaming community alike, becoming one of the most sought after records in the Ghostly catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing several restocks of \u003cem\u003eAlpha\u003c\/em\u003e to fervent fan response, the soundtrack's second installment got its first pressing in 2020. Originally self-released in 2013, the collection features tracks that were \"silently\" added to Minecraft during its music updates and a few that never officially entered the game. Across \u003cem\u003eVolume Beta\u003c\/em\u003e, Rosenfeld's unmistakable abilities are on display; he creates a sweeping variety of musical ideas that mirror the limitless universe of Minecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Warp Speed","offer_id":53475254731083,"sku":"R7552-7984","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2LP - Black | Lenticular Sleeve","offer_id":50387281346891,"sku":"1095829","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2LP - Red Splatter","offer_id":50387284656459,"sku":"1096297","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":50387284590923,"sku":"1095827","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":51642687521099,"sku":"R7552-5047","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red | LP | x2","offer_id":50417074733387,"sku":"1095828","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2LP - Red Orange \u0026 Yellow Splatter","offer_id":50387282886987,"sku":"2193419","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2CD","offer_id":50387282035019,"sku":"1095826","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f85b0df3-2120-48e2-ba8b-e56ee7599359_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726332311"},{"product_id":"awake-2","title":"Awake","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of\u003ci\u003e Awake\u003c\/i\u003e - his second LP for Ghostly International - the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record. The sound is much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like 'Montana' and 'Awake' are a departure from Tycho's previous material - unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record - while 'See' and 'Dye' echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50389742289227,"sku":"2051010","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50389742387531,"sku":"2179435","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50389741896011,"sku":"372039","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50389742223691,"sku":"372040","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Awake_b541ae10_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726370206"},{"product_id":"look-at-it-in-the-light-ep","title":"Look At It In The Light EP","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichmond, VA-based artist Kate Bollinger has signed to Ghostly International and releases a 6 track EP. Lead track \"Yards \/ Gardens” finds Bollinger in full swing, skipping verses of uncertainty above a bright and nimble bassline and kick. Guitarist Chris Lewis weaves throughout, his riffs unravel across the bridge, trailing her lines like ellipses. Written with Trainum and Lewis, “Yards \/ Gardens” reflects “feeling resistant to change, during a time when it felt like everything was changing,” says Bollinger. Growing up has become a motif in her work, but she’s never sidestepped the concept in quite this way. Here, self-assured and surrounded by vivid production, she leans back in the grass, letting expectations breeze by, reminding herself she’ll tend to things in good time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of woozy bedroom pop, classic 60's pop, Big Thief, Cat Power and Weather Station.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Blue | 12\".","offer_id":50399055741259,"sku":"1147876","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black | 12\"","offer_id":50399057477963,"sku":"1147873","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue | 12\"","offer_id":50399062131019,"sku":"1147886","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/46a3323e-5ef0-411e-a89c-8e1787d7d8e4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726501134"},{"product_id":"100-galcher-2","title":"100% Galcher","description":"\u003cp\u003e100% Galcher was by all accounts a game-changer when it landed in 2013 as an hour of original music from a relatively unknown producer ushered in by the beloved mix series Blowing Up The Workshop. Galcher Lustwerk's signature sound — a smoky stream-of-consciousness baritone shadow-boxing with beats, informed by funk, rap, rhythm, and blues — felt like an epiphany, impossibly hypnotic and complete. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late 2022, marking ten years since he first recorded the material, Lustwerk returns to Ghostly International to release \u003ci\u003e100% Galcher\u003c\/i\u003e as a remastered edition. Lustwerk is a product of the Midwest. Growing up in Cleveland, he'd tape over his parents’ cassettes and spend hours at his family computer recording loops and designing artwork for the jewel cases of burned CDs. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50406880117067,"sku":"2001101","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clear | LP | x2","offer_id":50406880444747,"sku":"2001102","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50406879756619,"sku":"2001100","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/100_Galcher_b1dbc4bc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726592012"},{"product_id":"galactic-melt-10th-anniversary","title":"Galactic Melt (10th Anniversary)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA decade ago, the static signal of “Terminal” booting-up sounded and \u003ci\u003eGalactic Melt\u003c\/i\u003e launched into the atmosphere for the first time; Seth Haley’s Com Truise project arrived in full. A graphic designer based in New Jersey at the time, Haley found a sound on his synthesizers that sparked an immediate nostalgia response, tapping into classic sci-fi and proto-electro in a way that felt early ‘80s in scope, but also remarkably weird — stutter-step proggy and intoxicatingly psychedelic. Unknowingly he had stepped into a genre prism; suppose we know it now as synth-wave though the tag never landed squarely. To Haley, this was a space to explore and a story to tell, which he’d do across a saga of releases that would resonate with a legion of fans and send the producer touring the world in perpetual orbit. His full-length debut on Ghostly International, Galactic Melt delivered on the promise of Haley’s Cyanide Sisters EP as well as high-profile remixes for Twin Shadow, Neon Indian, and Daft Punk. Bold, imaginative, and unapologetically cosmic, the set occupies a beloved coordinate in the Com Truise catalog, considered the gateway for many. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Haley and Ghostly have repressed the long-sold out 2xLP and added five unreleased tracks to the expanded digital edition, giving this classic its due treatment as it passes the milestone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the keyed-up, skyscraping machine love of “VHS Sex” and “Cathode Girls” to pulsing cuts like “Air Cal” and “Ether Drift,” the music on Galactic Melt is mathy, forlorn, funky, and mighty in technical ambition. That they’re all noticeably cinematic is, of course, by design. Haley envisioned \u003ci\u003eGalactic Melt\u003c\/i\u003e as a “sort of film score...from the mind,” chronicling the life and death of Com Truise, the world’s first synthetic\/robotic astronaut, from his creation and time on earth to his subsequent mission to a newly discovered galaxy called \u003ci\u003eWave 1\u003c\/i\u003e (released in 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Orange | LP | x2","offer_id":50407002407243,"sku":"1139316","price":46.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9a7214ca-b6f2-4397-9120-2fc6b99e8fa8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726593428"},{"product_id":"the-greater-wings","title":"The Greater Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career, \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Wings\u003c\/i\u003e. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs are universally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by the love and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheres both expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano, made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments — raw, gorgeous, and wild. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Wings\u003c\/i\u003e was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and the drives cross-country for its various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann, her longtime creative partner and \u003ci\u003eNot Even Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e producer, and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My hope for The Greater Wings is that it lives as a love letter to my chosen family and as an expression of the depth of my commitment to our shared future. Being reshaped by grief also has me more aware of what death does not take from me. I commit that to heart, to words, to sound. Music is not bound to any kind of linear time, so in the capacity to record and speak to the future: this is what it felt like to me, when we were simultaneous, alive, occurring all at once. What it has felt like to go up against my edge and push, the love that has made it worth all this fight. These memories are my values, they belong with me.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bonus CD with the RT Exclusive LP and CD features four tracks (three brand new songs and a Jackson Browne cover.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Maroon LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50407045136715,"sku":"2022593","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50407044776267,"sku":"2022592","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50407042908491,"sku":"2022590","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50407044186443,"sku":"2022591","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/JULIE_BRYNE_-_THE_GREATER_WINGS_-_GI416_-_PACKSHOT_7fa3e61b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726593893"},{"product_id":"live-63","title":"Live","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, the 13th Floor Elevators were dealing with legal troubles and personal strife that prevented them from touring, but they still had a reputation in Texas as a powerful live act, and their label, International Artists, wanted to capitalize on that by releasing an album of the group in concert. However, IA's attempt to record a live Elevators album in 1967 proved little short of disastrous -- the group was booked into an unfamiliar and uncomfortable venue in Houston and guitarist Stacy Sutherland had a bad reaction to the LSD he customarily took before a show, and the results were well recorded but musically ragged. So the folks at IA decided to simply invent an Elevators live disc -- Live is an often laughable collection of unreleased studio recordings and album cuts overdubbed with crowd noises (reportedly taken from a boxing match) kicked off by an announcer declaring \"We're all gathered together here for psychedelic music! We all are a family!\" with the sincerity and hippie fervor of a used car salesman. Despite all this, Live is not without interest for serious Elevators fans. Beneath the sound effects, there are several excellent early performances that otherwise appeared only on B-sides or bootlegs, including some fiery covers (great versions of \"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,\" \"Before You Accuse Me,\" and \"I'm Gonna Love You Too\") and little-heard group originals (\"You Gotta Take That Girl\" and \"You Can't Hurt Me Anymore\"). However, the versions of \"You're Gonna Miss Me,\" \"Tried to Hide,\" and \"She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)\" are the same ones that appeared on The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators or Easter Everywhere, albeit in curious stereo mixes with the canned audience bobbing up and down throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Artists","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50409481699659,"sku":"285551","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/665e96ee-1f46-4406-80be-b4dd292c0682_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728376530"},{"product_id":"affection-2","title":"Affection","description":"\u003cp\u003eBullion is Nathan Jenkins, an enduring cult figure of electronic music. A producer and songwriter quietly to be found connecting artists, genre and UK subculture. His credits range from Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard, Nilüfer Yanya and Avalon Emerson’s breakout album and The Charm to records for Westerman and Joviale. Bullion’s celebrated solo releases, meanwhile, have run parallel on Young, The Trilogy Tapes, Jagjaguwar and his own DEEK Recordings. It’s a creative red-thread Bullion ties together on his surprise new album, \u003ci\u003eAffection\u003c\/i\u003e - a warm, occasionally off-kilter and beautifully realised pop record that’s bold enough to step from behind-the-scenes and show affection in public. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAffection\u003c\/i\u003e started life upon Nathan’s move back to London from Lisbon, where he relocated in 2018. Back then, the comfort of the crowd suited him: self-confessedly passive and faltering by nature, the opportunity to exist somewhere without any personal history proved liberating. Returning home, Nathan increasingly found himself reflecting on his place in the world, seeking affection in place of cynicism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBullion’s music has always been difficult to pin down, but entirely distinctive - and on \u003ci\u003eAffection\u003c\/i\u003e, its rich pleasures are in hearing how this uncompromising approach is strengthened, in part, by softening. The album wonders-aloud about the meaning of intimacy, in relationship to others and the self. Masculinity and other contemporary concerns are punctuated by old-world charms, found in the ‘hat stands and watches’ of World_train. Influences stretch from morning swims to adolescent fears and a book of poems his dad wrote as a young man, in songs that are tender if not always true of Nathan himself. \u003ci\u003eAffection\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately asks how we understand people, but in being more vulnerable at least attempts to care a little less about what they think, too. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn blurring the observational with the introspective, \u003ci\u003eAffection\u003c\/i\u003e’s avant-pop touch abandons categorisation. The albums lyrics are as unguarded and devotional as they are inquisitive of alternative ways of being, signing off with ‘being still is hard to do’. Nathan has mastered his sound, but life - in its expectations, contradictions, impulses and desires - remains impossible to control. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50409546842443,"sku":"2176404","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50409547039051,"sku":"2176405","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50409546645835,"sku":"2176403","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/GI-429_3000x300_2_398401d2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726618077"},{"product_id":"minecraft-volume-alpha","title":"Minecraft Volume Alpha","description":"\u003cp\u003eMinecraft is a dreamscape, a limitless world where anything is possible. Minecraft is a tool, a means of bringing the imagination to life. Minecraft is a community, a platform on which inventive minds of all ages can share their creations and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMinecraft, of course, is also a game, the most popular and best-selling video game of all time. Created in 2009 by Swedish programmer Markus \"Notch\" Persson, this cultural phenomenon speaks volumes of our current zeitgeist's love for virtual spaces, but its unprecedented success couldn't be pinned on one factor alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountless layers of thoughtful artistry flow through Minecraft's singular experience, not the least of which is its transportive soundtrack by C418, the project of German composer and musician Daniel Rosenfeld. \"\u003cem\u003eMinecraft Volume Alpha\u003c\/em\u003e,\" the first installment of a two-part OST, helped breathe life into the game's voxel-based universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUpon release, fans and critics were universally enamored with C418's beatless, nuanced electronic pieces. Popular gaming site Kotaku named it among The Best Game Music of 2011, calling the music \"remarkably soothing.\" The Guardian compared Rosenfeld's delicate piano and sparse ambient motifs to legendary artists Erik Satie and Brian Eno. Polygon distilled Volume Alpha to its essence: \"It's not bound by the retro aesthetic of Minecraft's graphics. It transcends them. The album is an attempt to uplift the combined game\/music experience into the sublime.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP - Earth Confetti","offer_id":53475085844811,"sku":"R3673-2427","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Green","offer_id":50417681957195,"sku":"2193418","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50417681367371,"sku":"391184","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417681662283,"sku":"391182","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":51642653180235,"sku":"R3673-4344","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Minecraft_-_Volume_Alpha_fbaa5a0f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726735009"},{"product_id":"this-is-for-the-white-in-your-eyes","title":"This Is For The White In Your Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeatures the amazing track from the \u003ci\u003eBridge\u003c\/i\u003e. Even though\u003ci\u003e This is for the Whites in Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, the full-length debut by Danish collective Choir of Young Believers, is teeming with instruments - voices, pianos, synthesizers, banjos, an orchestra's ransom in strings and french horns - it's not the arrangements that dominate so much as the images they conjure. Snow-flecked mountaintops, deserted city streets, ghost-filled churches, a final kiss between estranged lovers - this is the emotional terrain trod by jannis joya makrigiannis and his Choir of Young Believers. \u003ci\u003eThis is for the Whites in Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is an album of orchestral indie-pop, but its artistic scope extends beyond melody and harmony: Choir of Young Believers paint cinematic tableaux, with Jannis cast as the silvery voiced narrator. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50418559648075,"sku":"319287","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/375504ec-80f8-4d69-a888-d8eba3e1fc38_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726741877"},{"product_id":"songs-from-a-thousand-frames-of-mind","title":"Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith her proper full-length debut, \u003cem\u003eSongs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, Virginia-born, LA-based songwriter \u003cstrong\u003eKate Bollinger\u003c\/strong\u003e redefines and refines her craft with intention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by pop, rock, and folk songs of the 1960s, Bollinger and her band - including collaborators Jacob Grissom, Adam Brisbin, Matthew E. White, and Sam Evian - favour the eclectic, melodic, and majestic, supporting intimate, stream-of-consciousness lyricism with classic instrumentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a collection of pop songs, polished yet scrappy with an underlying punk spirit, navigating life, relationships, and growing up. The release follows a run of singles since her 2022 record on Ghostly International, lauded by the likes of NPR and The Fader, contributions to friend's projects (Drugdealer, Paul Cherry), and tours with \u003cstrong\u003eFaye Webster\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eLiz Phair\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDevendra Banhart\u003c\/strong\u003e, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Green LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50421351416139,"sku":"2202547","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50421346959691,"sku":"2202502","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50421350695243,"sku":"2202503","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50421346304331,"sku":"2202501","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KATE_BOLLINGER_-_SONGS_FROM_A_THOUSAND_FRAMES_OF_MIND_-_52973f31_thumbnail_4.jpg?v=1726757263"},{"product_id":"whatever-the-weather","title":"Whatever The Weather","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoraine James kept busy in 2020, processing the year’s turbulence through her art. The North London producer started a monthly show on NTS radio, shared several projects on Bandcamp, and recorded two Hyperdub releases, the Nothing EP and Reflection, the proper LP follow-up to her 2019 breakthrough, \u003ci\u003eFor You and I\u003c\/i\u003e (which landed James, then a teaching assistant by day, the top spot on year-end lists by Quietus and DJ Mag). She also returned to a distinct creative terrain uncharted since her teenage years. In contrast to her club music sensibilities, this mode embraces keyboard improvisations and vocal experimentation, foregoing percussive structure in favor of shaping atmosphere and tone. From this divergent headspace emerged new coordinates and climates, a new outlet: Whatever The Weather. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA longtime fan of ambient-adjacent Ghostly International artists such as Telefon Tel Aviv (who she’d ask to master the album), HTRK (whose singer Jonnine Standish features on Nothing), and Lusine (whom she remixed at the start of 2021), James saw the label as the ideal home for this eponymous album of airy, transportive tracks as they began to formulate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe titling on \u003ci\u003eWhatever The Weather\u003c\/i\u003e works in degrees; simple parameters allowing James to focus on the nuances as a mood-builder. Her suspended universe fluctuates; freezing, thawing, swaying and blooming from track to track. James describes her jam-based approach for the sessions as “free-flowing, stopping when I felt like I was done,” allowing her subconscious to lead. The improvisations have an intrinsic fluidity to them, akin to sudden weather events passing over a single environment — the location feels fixed while the conditions vary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50424974803275,"sku":"1143553","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6879abbb-6a28-46db-848d-9d3aad1c1519_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726784960"},{"product_id":"later-that-day-the-day-before-or-the-day-before-that","title":"Later That Day, The Day Before, Or The Day Before That","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCasey MQ\u003c\/strong\u003e sings at the start of \u003cem\u003eLater that day\u003c\/em\u003e, the day before, or the day before that, his new LP and Ghostly International debut. It's a phrase fittingly misremembered from something the LA-based, Canadian-born composer came upon as he spiraled into unconscious and subconscious-led writing sessions at the piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCasey\u003c\/strong\u003e is known for his 2020 breakthrough release \u003cem\u003ebabycasey\u003c\/em\u003e, which gave voice to songs seen through the lens of childhood, various film score work, and collaborations with artists such as \u003cstrong\u003eOklou\u003c\/strong\u003e (who returns here), \u003cstrong\u003eEartheater\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eVagabon\u003c\/strong\u003e. His gifts as a producer and songwriter are rooted in textural world-building and the excavation of personal truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eLater that day\u003c\/em\u003e, he questions what is true entirely, understanding our mind's tendency to bend and project onto pictures of the past. Across vivid, baroque pop balladry, \u003cstrong\u003eCasey MQ\u003c\/strong\u003e reorients his recording project and point of view under the notion that memories are malleable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging his dreams and sitting with sheet music at his newly acquired piano, he looked to new and old inspirations including the works of \u003cstrong\u003eClaude Debussy\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJoni Mitchell\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Hisaishi\u003c\/strong\u003e's beloved Studio Ghibli film scores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ebabycasey\u003c\/em\u003e's studied electronic sound isn't wholly abandoned on \u003cem\u003eLater that day\u003c\/em\u003e, instead, it comes through like an atmosphere, giving \u003cstrong\u003eCasey\u003c\/strong\u003e's more spacious, minimal arrangements a distinct luster and sheen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe textures and tones shift from song to song as if mirroring the way our minds constantly recontextualize, remember, and forget. Cathartic opener \"Grey Gardens\" presents the record's plaintive, haunted feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsleep At The Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds on arpeggiated synth before a burst of symphonic color; the synth returns inverted to harmonize with the outro, \"I love a car crash, I love a story, I love a memory, I swear it's real...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCasey\u003c\/strong\u003e leans into digital imagination on the warm, introspective \"Me I Think I Found It.\" Subdued, stuttered percussion underscores the singer as he cycles through pixelated imagery — screenshots, smiles, streetlights — searching for higher meaning through love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt on ascendent chord distortions, \"Dying Til I'm Born\" gives the record one of its boldest pulses of emotion. The back half stretches out; \"Is This Only Water\" is sparse and foggy, \"Baby Voice\" is intimate and desperate for something to remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Words For Love\" grooves on guitar, and \"Tennisman9\" aches in heartbreak. French musician \u003cstrong\u003eMarylou Mayniel\u003c\/strong\u003e, aka \u003cstrong\u003eOklou\u003c\/strong\u003e, appears as the collection’s only guest for the closing duet, \"The Make Believe,\" a bright and buoyant send-off that gives \u003cem\u003eLater that day\u003c\/em\u003e both a sense of resolve and cyclical-motion. \"We are young, under the sun,\" they sing together, a parting image brimming with lightness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426064077131,"sku":"2188870","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brown LP","offer_id":50426064240971,"sku":"2188871","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50426063651147,"sku":"2188869","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/CASEY_MQ_-_LATER_THAT_DAY_THE_DAY_BEFORE_OR_THE_DAY_B_eabe97e2_thumbnail_409.jpg?v=1726799753"},{"product_id":"black-city","title":"Black City","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatthew Dear's \u003ci\u003eBlack City\u003c\/i\u003e can't be found on any map. It's a composite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives. Like most literary gothams, \u003ci\u003eBlack City\u003c\/i\u003e is a place to love and hate, as seedy and seductive as a nightclub's back room. Matthew Dear, the musician, may live in New York City, but the Matthew Dear of Black City inhabits a sound-world unlike any other: a monument to the shadowy side of urban life that bumps and creaks, shudders and wakes up screaming in the middle of the night. \u003ci\u003eBlack City \u003c\/i\u003eis Matthew Dear's darkest and most engrossing work to date. Now is Matthew Dear's moment, and it sounds like nothing else. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50426800374091,"sku":"1045341","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Silver LP","offer_id":50828203196747,"sku":"2230744","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50426800079179,"sku":"328614","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/478ac1e5-c9d2-4e25-9050-4ef2e343ebf1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726817715"},{"product_id":"bunny-2","title":"Bunny","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatthew Dear is a shapeshifter, oscillating seamlessly between DJ, dance-music producer, and experimental pop auteur. He is a founding artist on both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He writes, produces, and mixes all of his work. He straddles multiple musical worlds and belongs to none, now nearly 20 years into his kaleidoscopic career, with five albums and two dozen EPs plus millions of miles in the rearview of his biography. \u003ci\u003eBunny\u003c\/i\u003e is the name of Matthew Dear’s fifth album. His first since 2012, it bounces into plain sight preceded by two slyly different singles in 2017: the moody, urgent \u003ci\u003eModafinil Blues\u003c\/i\u003e and the buoyant, blithe, Tegan and Sara-featuring \u003ci\u003eBad Ones. Bunny\u003c\/i\u003e follows both modes, among others, parading down a rabbit hole of unhinged phrasings, dreams, and interludes. It saunters in the shadows; it stands brightly in the moonlight. \u003ci\u003eBunny\u003c\/i\u003e is a dual vision of avant-pop; an artistic reckoning from a 21st-century polymath; persona splintered, paradox paraphrased, a riddle rendered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Standard Weight Double Black Vinyl comes in Embossed Glossy Jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP+ - Limited Standard Weight Double White Splatter Vinyl comes in Embossed Glossy Jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50430893916491,"sku":"1043423","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50430892474699,"sku":"1044668","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50430894014795,"sku":"1043422","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/288cbf5f-3078-4a72-9518-57d352362b5f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726853336"},{"product_id":"feelings","title":"Feelings","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Do you feel what I feel too?” Brijean Murphy floats the question at the start of \u003ci\u003eFeelings\u003c\/i\u003e, the full-length Ghostly International debut from Brijean, her collaborative project with Doug Stuart. Guided by a lush mix of char- ismatic keyboard chords, grooving bass lines, and radiant bongo-driven rhythms, the \u003ci\u003eDay Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e lyric doubles as an invitation and a state- ment of intention. Brijean want you to move, physically, mentally, dimensionally; this is dance music for the mind, body, and soul. With \u003ci\u003eFeelings\u003c\/i\u003e, they’ve manifested a gentle collective space for respite, for self-reflection, for self-care, for uninhibited imagination and new possibilities. The album cultivates a specific vibe, a softness Murphy has come to call “romancing the psyche.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAforementioned album opener \u003ci\u003eDay Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e is a dynamic celebra- tion of newness: the excitement in finding deeper understandings of yourself as you get to know someone, something, or somewhere new. \u003ci\u003eWifi Beach\u003c\/i\u003e drops a pin in pure psych-pop exotica. With Atwal on drums, Stuart on bass, Peppers on keys, and Bear engineering, the group impro- vised the track’s intro sequence based on the vision of a lavish 1970s pool party. Establishing the scene is a mid-frequency drum kit disco shuffle augmented by tight congas and timbale effect, as Murphy sings in spurts: “I want to be \/ Deep in love \/ I want to be \/ Say you love me too \/ I want to be \/ Honey.” The stanzas cut between “reflective moments of wants and being overwhelmed by feelings of the present,” she explains. “A lot of the ‘love songs’ I write are to my psyche, self-reflections on how to encourage tender perspectives and make more time for the sweet stuff.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough there is a loose, dance-oriented motif throughout, the material gives way to somnolent turns. On\u003ci\u003e Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e, Brijean’s anodyne lyrics, remi- niscent of Astrud Gilberto’s airy croon, float atop a brushed drum pattern, sparkling rhodes lines, and pittering and softly funky woodblock bops. The opening line sets up the rest, “In this gentle space we lay” — among the album’s propensity for movement, tracks like \u003ci\u003eOcean\u003c\/i\u003e stand out by leaning back for momentary sways of blissful introspection. Murphy calls the charming Hey Boy a “psychedelic guide — the exploration of finding what feels good — through sorrow, anxiety, apathy.” This mentality applies to Feelings on the whole: in these nebulous and verdant worlds of hazy melodies, feathery hooks, and percussive details, the songs simply want us to feel alive. They radiate in wonderful abandon and with a sense of devotion to the self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50441898393931,"sku":"1107744","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50441899245899,"sku":"1107743","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50441899966795,"sku":"1107740","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8209607d-c684-4c0a-a206-cad142c7c308_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726988908"},{"product_id":"resucitation","title":"Resucitation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is indeed a nice way for the hugely respected Detroit duo to herald their return to the world of music, especially for anyone who missed out on \u003ci\u003eResuscitation\u003c\/i\u003e the first time around.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it first dropped in 2001, \u003ci\u003eResuscitation\u003c\/i\u003e served as a de facto introduction to the duo, collecting a bunch of songs on CD that had only previously been available on hard-to-find singles and EPs. Eleven years later, it does the same thing, except this time around, we can see just how influential its creators’ work has been — and Adult.’s music only sounds more remarkable with the benefit of hindsight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the time, Resuscitation’s combination of crisp beats, squelch-laden synths and Nicola Kuperus’ detached monotone sounded like a broadcast from the future, steeped in the analog synth sounds of forebears like Kraftwerk but possessed of an ultramodern sheen all its own. The duo’s visual aesthetic was just as important — Kuperus’ photography adorned all their album packaging (including this re-release), and their live shows drew on a sense of what a reviewer once called “detached intrigue.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEchoes of Adult.’s aesthetic can be heard today in everything from today’s surfeit of analog synth-toting minimal wave bands to the highly stylized divas who dominate the pop charts. But really, in 2022 \u003ci\u003eResuscitation\u003c\/i\u003e still sounds like no-one else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP | x2","offer_id":50442280862027,"sku":"1157039","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2936a380-fc63-441f-8787-784663899e55_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726995437"},{"product_id":"public-storage","title":"Public Storage","description":"\u003cp\u003eStorage units hold possessions on pause from the outside world, objects capable of reconnecting us to a time or place. Hana Vu (born in 2000s California) grew up with her family making regular use of public storage spaces in Los Angeles, moving every few years, leaving a mix of the sacred and the mundane to sit inside concrete and steel. The 20-year-old musician sees the art of making and releasing songs in a similar sense: “these public expressions of thoughts, feelings, baggage, experiences that accumulate every year and fill little units such as ‘albums.’” She lived next to one of these buildings when she started writing her full-length Ghostly International debut,\u003ci\u003e Public Storage\u003c\/i\u003e, and its towering presence lends a metaphor to a record that sounds far bigger than the bedroom it came from. Vu’s relationship with music began when she picked up a guitar her dad had lying around and taught herself to play. She’d wake up every day and listen to LA’s ALT 98.7, home to ‘90s and ‘00s alternative rock; later in high school, she found the local DIY scene. She remembers, “A lot of my peer musicians were surf rock\/punk type bands and so I tried to fit into that when I was gigging around. But what I was listening to at that time [St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens] was very different from what I performed.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately she’d do her own thing, keeping a journal of bedroom pop ex-periments on Bandcamp, including a low-key Willow Smith collaboration and covers of The Cure and Phil Collins. She caught the ear of Gorilla vs. Bear, who released Vu’s self-produced debut EP in 2018 on their Luminelle Recordings imprint, followed by a double EP the next year.\u003ci\u003e Public Storage\u003c\/i\u003e builds on the sound of Vu’s early work underscoring her strengths as a songwriter with a deeper sense of luster, sophistication, and urgency. She calls it “very invasive and intense sounding music,” refreshingly out of step with contemporary trends; this is music to engage with rather than lean back to. For the first time, she welcomes a co-producer, Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), who helps Vu create a vast, grainy, multifaceted world to stretch into vocally, her distinct contralto drifting freely between evocative low-lit ruminations and soulful, skyward bursts. Vu opens the album fixed on a force that recurs throughout. She explains, “I am not religious but when writing these songs I imagined a sort of desolate character crying out to an ultimately punitive force for something more.” The first sounds we hear are charming: isolated piano keys cycle into warm strums and self-harmonies on “April Fool,” as Vu’s protagonist dismisses her surroundings and ability to communicate. The soft amber glow diffuses into the album’s title track, a darker, murkier, louder place. Vu rips through “Public Storage’’ with a series of defiant rejections (failure, family, magic) and cathartic demands. It’s a rare and powerful display of vulnerability from a lyricist who favors the abstract over autobiographical. Built on a disco synth pattern and grooving bass stabs, “Aubade” has the bright bounce of its morning namesake, cleverly at odds with its downbeat subject. The contrast continues on “Keeper,” a pulsating new wave cut, replete with soaring dreamy synths and a cooly snarling narrator, again challenging that force. “Gutter” returns to the grungy lowlight, with muscular guitar riffs striating above a bed of feedback, swelling alongside orchestral strings to a roaring finish. The back half of Public Storage features some of its most striking moments: the rhythmic, hook-heavy “Everybody’s Birthday” speaks to the evil absurdity of the present, the end of times. The night is red, the mood is blue, and her character’s shame is painted gold. Vu saves “Maker” for last, a final go at the existential. That long-lost trinket, enormously meaningful, buried at the bottom of a box at the back of the unit. Tender banjo plucks and piano keys serve as the base for Vu’s escalating harmonies, overcome by remorseful exhalations, the song culminates on the lines: “save me oh my angel \/ are you angry \/ cos I’m not stronger and I crumble \/ oh that’s my nature \/ just like you.” In that address, in finding something lost along the way in too many shuffles from place to place, Vu finds a tarnished token of solace and a logical conclusion for Public Storage: we are all fucked up, scattered, prone to getting lost, and whoever, whatever made us is fucked up, scattered and lost too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50442555228491,"sku":"1130012","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50442555621707,"sku":"1130013","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50442554704203,"sku":"1130011","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50442557686091,"sku":"1130007","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/72e789bf-3be0-4b4d-aab8-2d4fc164cb6f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727000794"},{"product_id":"happening","title":"Happening","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter nearly three years and sixty demos, Launder’s full-length debut is \u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2019, Orange County-raised, Los Angeles-based musician John Cudlip signed to Ghostly International to build his recording project, developed out of casual sessions with friends Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), Soko, and Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV). Launder’s music had seen unexpected attention, with Stereogum placing it “somewhere at the intersection of ‘90s lo-fi and shoegaze,” and Gorilla vs. Bear noting Cudlip’s “serious knack for the kind of wistful, soaring choruses that immediately make you feel like you’ve known these songs forever.” With live shows paused in 2020, he immersed fully into writing and arranging an overflow of ideas. Cudlip also embraced sobriety, redirecting his once-destructive addictive tendencies into studio craft — all his thoughts consumed by melody and texture, all his resources lobbed into gear, every buzz, hiss, and hum of this record became his entire world. The resulting set sprawls across a double LP release; it’s a considered beast of a debut and he’s proud of it, living with it, finally. Through its thirteen songs, Happening is timeless, grappling with something bigger than just melody, the cathartic and the tender, indebted to indie rock greats while informed by modern and prudent self-reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I feel like I’ve evolved into a much more self-reliant writer compared to the EP and 7-inch releases but I couldn’t have made this record without the band,” he says. “The songs came to life in the rehearsal space with them, it was like a light switch went on.” To record the album, Cudlip and collaborators — including Chase Meier (bass), Bryan DeLeon (drums), Nathan Hawelu (lead guitar) — joined co-producer, engineer, and mixer Sonny DiPerri (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, DIIV) at New Monkey Studio, the vintage analog \/ modern digital recording studio in Van Nuys, California once owned by Elliott Smith. Cudlip mapped out his dream setup; alternate-tuning a fleet of Fenders to facilitate his left-handed playing, experimenting with different amps (a late ‘70s Marshall JMP carried much of the sound), and getting the vocals just right on Smith’s old Neumann U48 microphone and Fairchild compressor. With each nuanced adjustment and improved take, they’d joke, “it’s happening.” The sort of phrase you say to keep the vibe light — but there was some gravity behind it — as the group was forced to wait to be safely in the same space again. It was apparent to them that something magnetic was shaping this record. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere debuts often feel full of rough-hewn potential, Launder has crafted a deeply honed collection that is happening right now. A process-oriented album, the work of a person maturing with their art, the sound of a songwriter pushing through their limits with thrilling and anthemic outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50446346420555,"sku":"1151723","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue | LP | x2","offer_id":50446345994571,"sku":"1151833","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50446347108683,"sku":"1151722","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e22d8344-07fd-4f27-934f-3910f63c909f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727058076"},{"product_id":"nonlin","title":"Nonlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eChicago-based contemporary electronic musician Steve Hauschildt has composed panoramas of synthesized sound for over a decade. First within his former band, Emeralds, an American touchstone of 2000s home-recorded psychedelic noise music, and later across a steady and critically-acclaimed stream of solo releases spanning ambient techno, arpeggiated electronica and post-kosmische styles utilizing synthesizers, computers, and digital processing. In 2018, he extended a collection of rich, visceral tracks titled \u003ci\u003eDissolvi,\u003c\/i\u003e his first release on Ghostly International and his most collaborative work to date. Just a year later, Hauschildt returns with \u003ci\u003eNonlin\u003c\/i\u003e, an album that’s freer, leaner, and looser, both structurally and conceptually; less linear compared to its predecessor, but still captivating. Developed and recorded in several studios during and around the edges of tour — Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Tbilisi, and Brussels — this material emulates an alienating encounter with a smattering of places, a replicant of culture shock, a solitary and stark experience with uncanny environments, melody and dissonance as oblique locales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNonlin\u003c\/i\u003e finds Hauschildt evolving his palette of tools, integrating modular and granular synthesis. The improvisatory and generative nature of modular systems, when paired with his signature grid-oriented and hand-played techniques, guides these compositions slightly out of line to hypnotic effect. Opener \u003ci\u003eCloudloss\u003c\/i\u003e permeates the mix with an unsettling smog, which reappears and all but engulfs\u003ci\u003e A Planet Left Behind\u003c\/i\u003e. On cuts like \u003ci\u003eAttractor B\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSubtractive Skies\u003c\/i\u003e, pockets of air rest between sequenced pulses, whose crumpling and flattening folds build into a restrained rapture of crisp frequencies and milky reverb-swallowed coruscations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album’s title track and centerpiece logs on to a foreign network, a fractured percussion signal that modulates and stutters into static amidst curious melodic sparkling in the hazy bandwidth. \u003ci\u003eReverse Culture Music\u003c\/i\u003e casts an elegant and brooding stream of strings, pizzicato and churning bow from Chicago cellist Lia Kohl, against chiming minimalist synth frameworks. A surprising pattern emerges in the taciturn systems at work. Hauschildt continues to expand his already horizon-wide repertoire, here exploring the effects of corrupting coordinates; a flight subject to the collapsable abilities of time in remote spaces, a smearing of the axis to elegiac ends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Silver | LP.","offer_id":50449097621835,"sku":"1075253","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50449096507723,"sku":"1075252","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/13b3b3a8-eb35-4906-bfc9-a99515c66389_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727099075"},{"product_id":"gravity-pairs","title":"Gravity Pairs","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeacon’s third full-length record enters sight as a work of meticulous revision and refraction. Returning home to New York in 2016, four years and several tours since the duo's first release with Ghostly International, Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett knew the next direction would be different. Together they embarked on open-ended sessions, adopting a more linear style of songwriting compared to their previous loop and texture-driven method. They fundamentally constructed demos from piano chords and guitar phrases with vocal melodies, editing iterations almost ad infinitum, looking through each from a multitude of angles. Compositions expanded, while others pared back to where they began. Like the bending of light, this abstractive and patient process outlines a space and scale in which seemingly separate colors — minimalist ballads, elaborate pop spirituals, and four-on-the-floor dance sequences — can coexist at different speeds, fanning out with spectral cohesion. A prismatic collection Beacon call \u003ci\u003eGravity Pairs\u003c\/i\u003e. On \u003ci\u003eGravity Pairs\u003c\/i\u003e, Beacon channel the philosophy with pure pop mystique, slicing through dense and foggy dance and electronic music apparatuses to create something familiar but unique, melodic but cathartic. Rippling through these songs are iridescent synthesizer lines, stoic piano phrasing, dazzling percussion, posh harpsichord, understated xylophone, and a crisp voice in complete control. Taken as a whole, in their various combinations and compressions, these complementary and secondary tones unlock the lushest field of colour, a universe of light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50449279320395,"sku":"1044872","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b6e04230-723e-4bb5-a391-53c8adfd8bee_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727101041"},{"product_id":"instrmntl","title":"Instrmntl","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early 2000s were a time of upheaval for hip-hop. The underground and mainstream divide that had defined so much of the previous decade was showing the first signs of irrelevance. Timbaland and The Neptunes made radio rappers sound futuristic while independent artists struggled in a quagmire of backpacks and misguided claims to keep it real. Away from this, in a misunderstood middle ground between hip-hop and electronic music, a new generation of artists were busy imagining a new sound for hip-hop. One such artist was Scott Prefuse 73 Herren, whose perpendicular MPC chops on his 2001 debut for Warp Records set curious minds racing with possibilities. That same year Tadd Mullinix released his debut as Dabrye on Ghostly International, a sonic wildstyle that appealed to both hip-hop heads and IDM nerds. Sometime that same year Herren and Mullinix met after sharing a bill in Detroit. CD-Rs were exchanged and a year later Eastern Development, Herren’s newly launched label, released Dabrye’s \u003ci\u003eInstrmntl\u003c\/i\u003e, a short album with a big impact. On its fifteenth anniversary Ghostly International is reissuing \u003ci\u003eInstrmtl\u003c\/i\u003e on vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInstrmntl\u003c\/i\u003e is a continuation of the beat experiments Dabrye began with \u003ci\u003eOne \/ Three\u003c\/i\u003e and a bridge to the diverse textures that would define \u003ci\u003eTwo \/ Three\u003c\/i\u003e four years later. About half of its nine tracks (ten if you lived in Japan) were created at the same time as \u003ci\u003eOne \/ Three\u003c\/i\u003e while the rest were newer or made specifically for the album. Once again Mullinix looked outside of hip-hop to techno, house, and drum and bass for stylistic and technical ideas while embracing the blissful minimalism of a good hip-hop instrumental and the rhythmic nuance of Detroit. Despite the similarities between Dabrye’s debut and this follow up, Mullinix didn’t simply replicate what had made \u003ci\u003eOne \/ Three \u003c\/i\u003eso arresting. He pushed and pulled further between the two cornerstones of his approach to reveal more potentials. \u003ci\u003eInstrmntl\u003c\/i\u003e takes you deeper into electronic depths — the rugged synth stutter of \u003ci\u003eWon\u003c\/i\u003e, the tumbling, wobbling bass in \u003ci\u003eNo Child Of God\u003c\/i\u003e, the electro get down of \u003ci\u003eProspects (Marshall Law)\u003c\/i\u003e — while also treading more organic grounds by letting samples breathe and moods unfurl at a gentler pace (\u003ci\u003eTake Me Home, Evelyn\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYou Know The Formula Right?\u003c\/i\u003e). And then there are the moments where this push and pull finds balance and the result becomes more, as it does on the mournful march of \u003ci\u003eD-Town Tabernacle Choir\u003c\/i\u003e and the twinkling daydream of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Came In\u003c\/i\u003e. At just over 30 minutes, \u003ci\u003eInstrmntl\u003c\/i\u003e offers a snapshot of a time when potentials seemed infinite, when lines could be drawn between jazz, ragga jungle, techno, and hip-hop and the resulting shape divined an exciting future. Includes previously Japanese-only bonus track, \u003ci\u003eGimme Lowlands.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Standard weight blue vinyl is housed in a matte jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50450172674379,"sku":"1024896","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/84367344-301d-48d9-8cca-a363884c2a07_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727109798"},{"product_id":"veriditas","title":"Veriditas","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor one of the country’s most understated composers. Kenniff has housed dozens of ambient releases under the name Helios since 2004, alongside post-classical output as Goldmund, shoegaze pop with his wife Hollie as Mint Julep, and commissions for film and television. It is a reliably transportive body of work that's earned Kenniff a cult following, and a genuine modesty that’s kept him on the fringes, right where he prefers, in the dark. \u003ci\u003eVeriditas\u003c\/i\u003e introduces unusual shapes and landscapes to the Helios catalog. Whereas past songs have followed traditional structures — discernable bell curves with beginnings, arcs, and ends — the focus here is texture and harmony. \"I wanted to explore emotionality within something more static.\" Synth-tones radiate and hum as vignettes, often crisp and cloudless, other times smeared to a queasy Boards of Canada-like unease. The latter burbles below the last moments of \u003ci\u003eEventually\u003c\/i\u003e and looms over the opener \u003ci\u003eSeeming\u003c\/i\u003e like darkness inching across a forest. Tracks cease at will. \u003ci\u003eSeeming\u003c\/i\u003e fades just after a sliver of light cuts through the mossy pillars. \u003ci\u003eLatest Lost\u003c\/i\u003e mists for just one minute. \u003ci\u003eRow The Tide\u003c\/i\u003e for two, hovering like a helium balloon lost to the horizon. \u003ci\u003eEven Today\u003c\/i\u003e hangs above the snowcaps, suspended in an upper arboreal sequence, as shimmering surges of static trace the treetops below. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoments on \u003ci\u003eVeriditas\u003c\/i\u003e pass quickly, but as a series of moments, they are fluid, almost regenerative. Disassembling the album by instruments is difficult. Unlike past Helios work, there is no percussion. The one straightforward use of guitar appears on the ambling \u003ci\u003eUpward Beside The Gale\u003c\/i\u003e, strummed solemnly as if over end credits, watching the greenery lapse to grey in the twilight. In the second half of \u003ci\u003eDreams\u003c\/i\u003e, crystalline piano chords converse with washes of orchestral notes and deep drone, advancing towards temporal clarity, a lookout point, that once presented evaporates. In a way, \u003ci\u003eVeriditas\u003c\/i\u003e parallels the path of the Helios project to date: patient, immense, and wondrous without ostentation. Kenniff continues to find a soothing and centering quality in his craft. Aligned with Hildegard von Bingen’s philosophy, Kenniff looks towards sound, like many do to nature, for momentary vigor, for elemental and nourishing prolificacy. Here, in pursuit of viriditas, with precise textures and harmonies, he humbly extends that verdant expression outward, wide and pliable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50450426954059,"sku":"1042230","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/97b20d0e-6a60-4c47-9db9-02d84ae9f623_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727111832"},{"product_id":"it-s-immaterial","title":"It's Immaterial","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Marble release their second full-length, \u003ci\u003eIt's Immaterial.\u003c\/i\u003e A collection of songs pieced together from perfect seeming snippets heard while passing open doors. A framework in which your imagination creates its own specific version of what you've been dying to hear but didn't have a way to describe. That song that was put on a mixtape for you and played over and over, but wasn't labeled, so never fully had or found. With both early releases the band followed a familiar path stomped down in the late 70s and all throughout the 80s by bands whose sound and DIY ethics paved the way for other likeminded artists with little formal training or funding to make their own contributions to the genre. Pulling from the pre-'Simply Irresistible' days of early Robert Palmer and first wave pioneers such as Silicon Teens, Iron Curtain, Lives of Angels, and Solid Space, Black Marble dialed in on a clear understanding of its own specific sound, showcased most clearly on this new release with Stewart becoming more comfortable in being clear with what he's trying to say, both subjectively, in terms of the stories he's telling and the things he's willing to talk about, and objectively in terms of the lyrics and upfront vocals, while still experimenting with holding things back to produce a sound more claustrophobic and immediate. Written, recorded, mixed, and performed entirely by Stewart, the new songs are the unified vision of one person's attempt to patchwork together bits of vapor, the most subtle gleanings of preference, and make one whole new thing that's an atmospheric continuation of its parts. An endless drive in the passenger seat of a car while listening to everything you've ever loved, but lasting only 40 minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50450546590027,"sku":"405502","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50450545475915,"sku":"405503","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Marbled Black and White \/ 10th Anniversary Edition","offer_id":56359043334475,"sku":"R6752-3543","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/05fcfaad-bd07-4fd5-8932-24223f20cec3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727112898"},{"product_id":"work-work-work","title":"Work (work, Work)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHTRK's \u003cem\u003eWork (work, work)\u003c\/em\u003e, a cult classic pressed for its 15th anniversary, emerged from grief after the sudden loss of founding member Sean Stewart in 2010. Marked by achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, and vaporous guitar noise, with Jonnine Standish's singular sense of detachment, \u003cem\u003eWork (work, work) \u003c\/em\u003eregistered as bleak, abrasive, and melancholic. Yet deeper listens through the murky, minimalist set reveal a romantic core. Something they'd surface further in the years to follow. Centered around the project's 21st Anniversary, Ghostly reissue a deluxe obi edition in a new Clear Ash coloured vinyl variant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50451571278155,"sku":"343308","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Clear Ash","offer_id":57760409780555,"sku":"R1841-0561","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_922bda6b-ebaa-4d71-966f-1d0e905d935d.jpg?v=1783095585"},{"product_id":"the-way-things-fall","title":"The Way Things Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdult's fifth full-length is released on Ghostly International. 'The Way Things Fall' feature ten new tracks and is the closest they've come to writing traditional 'pop' songs, even though they are totally mutants. The release follows a recent 7\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50451575636299,"sku":"362339","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4de564d5-e866-44ec-8fd3-1c766432b4b7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727130486"},{"product_id":"ghostly-swim","title":"Ghostly Swim","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ghostly Swim compilation is a collaboration between Ghostly International and Adult Swim, a 20-track mix (curated by label founder Sam Valenti IV) of tracks from Ghostly's avant-pop mainstays like Matthew Dear, Solvent, and Michna, alongside kindred spirits like Milosh, FLYamSAM, and Mux Mool. Ghostly Swim's best tracks embody the label's trademark mix of playful darkness and irreverence - Deastro's lurching robot-rock anthem \u003ci\u003eLight Powered\u003c\/i\u003e, Michna's slinky-smooth \u003ci\u003eTriple Chrome Dipped\u003c\/i\u003e - making them an ideal accompaniment to, say, pissing in your pants over Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. \u003ci\u003eGhostly Swim\u003c\/i\u003e was initially released in early 2008 as an exclusive free download on Adult Swim's website. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50452408631627,"sku":"1078248","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c793d059-3cfb-4dda-97a6-958fb3ec88a6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727151674"},{"product_id":"retrace","title":"Retrace","description":"\u003cp\u003eRepetition is learning. \u003ci\u003eRetrace,\u003c\/i\u003e the new EP from Jeff McIlwain aka Lusine, moves along this line of thought, reflecting the Texas-raised \/ Seattle-based producer's recurrent, iteration-embracing approach to music-making and living. Following 2017 full-length \u003ci\u003eSensorimotor,\u003c\/i\u003e which explored the body's instinct versus the brain's intent, this introverted 4-tracker finds McIlwain just as kinetically-curious. Balancing focused programming with washy, less concrete sonics, \u003ci\u003eRetrace\u003c\/i\u003e plays with the unexpected by drawing from slight variations on the same idea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | 10\"","offer_id":50452449952075,"sku":"1065664","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1721d208-c255-47b6-8d37-6575b7bf4a1b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727152827"},{"product_id":"beings-of-light","title":"Beings of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a run of critically-acclaimed singles and EPs, British producer Michael Greene, aka Fort Romeau, returns to the full-length format with \u003ci\u003eBeings of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s \u003ci\u003eInsides\u003c\/i\u003e and his second LP on Ghostly International. While a prolific DJ who orients many of his productions for the dancefloor, Greene still sees the album as the ultimate statement of intent, “a space to stretch out, to speak in full paragraphs rather than stunted sentences.” He has explored several stylistic fragments in recent years (including the summer 2018 anthem “Pablo,” hailed a Best New Track by Pitchfork), but when faced with the extended pause to the dance community in 2020, Greene felt compelled to focus on a larger body of work. Embracing a back-to-basics mentality, he amassed over a dozen hours of sounds, asking himself throughout the sessions: “Does the music move you? Is it honest?” He came out the other end with Beings of Light, an expressive collection traversing rainy day ambient, moonlit disco, and dream-like techno in pursuit of the power found within our subconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike previous Fort Romeau records, Greene’s foundational inspiration for \u003ci\u003eBeings of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is imagery. Specifically, a work by Steven Arnold, a Dalí protégé known for con structing otherworldly, tableau vivant set designs from found objects until his death in 1994 amid the AIDS crisis. Arnold’s 1984 photograph Power of Grace (featured as the album art and lending a title to one of its tracks) spoke to Greene immediately: “It’s transcendent in the most potent and direct manner, imagination untethered by material, elegance without riches. Imagination always wins over resource.” The visual, as well as the surrealist idea that dreams allow us to create a better reality, led Greene to shape his most ambitious and complete record to date, a love letter to dance music coded with a message of hope. The album title comes from his belief that people can facilitate change by first imagining the way we want things to be, and not letting cynicism block that light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50459438743883,"sku":"1137536","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50459438088523,"sku":"1137535","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0214bb88-e2da-4fb0-aab1-b3642b2a360f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727222237"},{"product_id":"the-long-and-short-of-it","title":"The Long and Short of It","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor fans of King Krule, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Thundercat, Shigeto, Mild High Club and Crumb. With \u003ci\u003eThe Long and Short of It\u003c\/i\u003e, his Ghostly International debut, Jonson reinvents his project as a full-fledged songwriter, vocalist, and arranger, playing nearly everything from drums to keys and guitar. The resulting sound straddles jazz, hip hop, R\u0026amp;B, and psych-pop while suggesting a wholly genre-less path forward. Recorded during and after a short-lived move to Los Angeles, songs find Jonson cool and comfortable, navigating the planes between anxiety and apathy, distance and desire with lyrical vulnerability and introspection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA student of the Stones Throw catalog (his favorite is Madlib’s Quasimoto), Jonson remains rhythm-driven at heart, trusting his instincts in this new palette of organic instrumentation and verse-chorus structure. Tracks glide and bump with tasteful care to tempo as his scene-building and storytelling knack comes into focus. Jonson’s past material often suited passive listenership, the kind of bedroom-produced beat music that offers secondary utility and function as a companion to primary activities. \u003ci\u003eThe Long and Short of It\u003c\/i\u003e showcases an evolutionary step into a style that uses chops cultivated in that niche that demand a more active listenership. That attention is rewarded with earworms, dazzling production flare, and earnest, genre-spanning songwriting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpener “Phases” launches on the radical wisdom of the album’s sole vocal feature, courtesy of renowned poet and activist, Sharrif Simmons, who contributes a psyche- delic poem spanning cosmic existentialism — something he wrote off the cuff during a session. As the fiery spoken word unfolds, a frenzy of drum grooves from Micah Hummel and strings from Elliot Cleverdon rise higher into the mix, all setting the stage for Jonson’s debut at the mic and keys. The back half of “Phases” shifts into a hypnotic instrumental, the drums interlocking on guitar lines, pausing for a spacious break before reassembling twice as potent, riding into a blissful, cathartic saxophone solo by Haily Naiswanger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shee” was written on his girlfriend’s guitar and every line glows with uncomplicated adoration. He is captivated in this daydream, which drifts off into a haze of strums and hums. We wake to the looping drums of “Leave It.” Above the pattern, layering piano and guitar, Jonson pokes holes in himself — his “cognitive dissonance,” being “too jaded” to see what’s right in front of him – the notions blurring back into that haze on an outro of sublime ambient psych-jazz. Jonson returns to the piano for “I Am Close To The River,” the place he goes to break a creative rut, as he was the morning this bittersweet melody entered his mind. He says the song is loosely based on a psychonautic experience he had along the Willamette River. Once home, he put the song to paper, over time arranging a bucolic mix of shimmering chimes, saturated percussion, and orchestral strings from Elliot Cleverdon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA highlight on the record’s b-side, “Everything is Different (To Me)” features all the traits of the new quickly, quickly in one ambitious suite: a catchy guitar loop, a classic hip-hop drum break, a swell of strings, and sly chord progression changes, all in clever contrast to Jonson’s lyrics detailing bouts with lethargy. The album ends on a series of questions in the poignant “Wy,” a delightful resignation. Jonson, lonely in LA, spins the hypochondriac wheel and checks off concerns that seem to plague internet dwell- ers; his neck hurts, his hands are shaky, his stomach feels off. He dismisses his need to self-diagnose and opts to lean into the moment through music. A billowing outro builds on airy synths, his contemplative guitar strums, and a soothing water droplet sound. The comedown is “Otto’s Dance,” a brief instrumental reverie nodding to one of his favorite Brazilian albums, Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges’ Clube Da Esquina. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50459704688971,"sku":"1124168","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50459705377099,"sku":"1124169","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50459706097995,"sku":"1124166","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/df91e59e-4761-4f61-ada2-52cb48a2f7e4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727226339"},{"product_id":"i-feel-alive","title":"I Feel Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003eMontreal dream-pop four-piece Tops release their fourth album. \u003ci\u003eI Feel Alive\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in a basement studio in Montreal with keyboardist Marta Cikojevic, who joined the band as a live member in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir trademark sound of beguiling melodies over soft-rock grooves, with touches of '80s sophisti-pop and a contemporary experimental palette is intact, but bolder and more expansive. The songs manage to be both immediately catchy and deceptively deep, with Penny's literary lyrics adding an extra dimension to the pure pop hooks. Satisfying yet far from predictable, this is a record to be savoured, revealing itself slowly, gaining power and poignancy with each listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the soaring melodies and crisp production, I Feel Alive balances the giddiness of a new relationship with the agony of leaving old things behind. It's an introspective record that you can dance to, music that hits in an immediate rush but sticks around, lingering like the memory of a perfect doomed love affair-both the joy and the pain, until it becomes a part of your life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP - Grey","offer_id":50461470556491,"sku":"1091250","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP- Clear","offer_id":50461474423115,"sku":"2026196","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50461472751947,"sku":"1087428","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50461471506763,"sku":"1087422","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50461472194891,"sku":"1087427","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Peppermint","offer_id":56304044802379,"sku":"R6988-1511","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/87d1359b-45e2-4c58-b605-5f48b9c21bb4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727248799"},{"product_id":"epoch-1","title":"Epoch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest album from Scott Hansen's continually expanding project Tycho. The album is at once a departure and an evolution for Tycho; honing the sonic aesthetic of \u003ci\u003eDive\u003c\/i\u003e while drawing on the kinetic energy of \u003ci\u003eAwake\u003c\/i\u003e, it explores darker themes and new musical territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP - Red","offer_id":50465269350731,"sku":"1000969","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50465269547339,"sku":"1000968","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50465269776715,"sku":"1000965","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Blue and Black Marble","offer_id":56537552486731,"sku":"R2575-5293","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6e76828c-1e66-416e-9cec-3cb61561c275_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727284517"},{"product_id":"silver-ladders","title":"Silver Ladders","description":"\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore returns with \u003ci\u003eSilver Ladders\u003c\/i\u003e, the full-length follow-up to acclaimed album \u003ci\u003eHundreds of Days\u003c\/i\u003e. Since 2018, Lattimore has toured internationally, released collaborative albums with artists such as Meg Baird and Mac McCaughan, and shared a friends-based remix album featuring artists such as Jónsi and Julianna Barwick. At one of her festival appearances, Lattimore met Slowdive’s Neil Halstead: “A friend introduced us because she knew how big of a fan I was and Neil and I had a little chat... The next day, I just thought maybe he’d be into producing my next record.” He was. Lattimore traditionally records her albums holed up by herself, so the addition of Halstead’s touches as a producer and collaborator leave a profound trace. “I flew on a little plane to Newquay in Cornwall where he lives with his lovely partner Ingrid and their baby. I didn’t know what his studio was like, he’d never recorded a harp, but somehow it really worked.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded over nine days at Halstead’s studio stationed on an old airfield,\u003ci\u003e Silver Ladders\u003c\/i\u003e finds Lattimore exercising command and restraint. Her signature style is refined, the sprawling layers of harp reigned in and accented by flourishes of low end synth and Halstead’s guitar. The music can feel ominous but not by compromising vivid wonder, like oceanic overtones that shift with the tides. This material is coloured by specific memories for Lattimore; “Neil has this poster of a surfer in his studio and I’d look at it each day, looking at the sunlight glinting on the dark wave. In these songs I like the contrast between the dark lows and the glittering highs. The gloom and the glimmer, the opposites, a lively surfing town in the winter turned kinda rainy and empty and quiet.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLattimore and Halstead reformed three existing demos and improvised the remaining four songs. Among the batch she brought with her, the title track recalls a trip she took to Stari Grad, Croatia on the island of Hvar. “I spent some days there just swimming in the bay, silver ladders right into the sea.” The image stuck with her when she found herself performing at a cliffside wedding overlooking the Pacific. “Before anyone showed up, I had time to set up and play and this song came to me, ‘Silver Ladders (to the sea)’, so I made a little recording on my phone to remember it.” This sketch expanded; a delicately glittering harp melody comes over the horizon, swelling and rolling towards the shore on ebbs of synth and refractory delay. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese songs are clearly tales, and yet \u003ci\u003eSilver Ladders\u003c\/i\u003e is open to interpretation. Her memories — “the Cornish landscape, the hotel from the movie The Witches, the cream tea, winning the pub quiz, the Sunday Roast, the ghosts of all of the surfers who had died in the wild waves, the night walks to the top of the hill to see the moon shining on the water…” — shine through these works without defining them. In a way, much like the sea, or the sky, they belong to everyone. Such is the beauty of her craft, which stands here in unprecedented company and clarity, the confidence of an artist in full.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Silver | LP","offer_id":50466815279435,"sku":"1109259","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5227c2ec-ba61-4078-a05b-03eb777beea7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727323132"},{"product_id":"release-spirit-2","title":"Release Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanadian producer Dylan Khotin-Foote has kept his Khotin alias going for the better part of a decade; the impressionistic electronic project shifts with the movements in his life. Sometimes it leads, like when the club-friendly grooves of 2014’s \u003ci\u003eHello World\u003c\/i\u003e immersed him in the heart of Vancouver’s underground dance scene, and sometimes it follows, like 2018’s \u003ci\u003eBeautiful You\u003c\/i\u003e, a downtempo salve for DJ fatigue. His melodic sensibility and playful ear for atmosphere remain the rippling core of the project’s fingerprint; whether beat-driven or ambient, a foggy smear or a dusted and pristine print, a Khotin track has a distinct and instantly recognizable swirl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50466909094219,"sku":"2003746","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pink LP","offer_id":50466909749579,"sku":"2003747","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50466909028683,"sku":"2003745","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KHOTIN_-_RELEASE_SPIRIT_-_GI411_-_PACKSHOT_5e4a325f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727330011"},{"product_id":"empty-seats","title":"Empty Seats","description":"\u003cp\u003eTops were formed in Montreal when song-writing duo David Carriere and Jane Penny decided to join forces with drummer Riley Fleck. Since then they have become one of the most influential underground bands of the past decade, creating a space for sophisticated pop music in the indie world. Their tendency to opt towards making straight-forward, stripped down and honest recordings lets their pop songwriting shine out in the open. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a heart firmly attached to their sleeves, their song-craft delves into the emotional intricacy of personal relationships, asking questions about power and desire. Riley Fleck’s measured drumming and David Carriere’s trademark guitar licks mesh with Marta Cikojevic’s lush keyboards. All these elements work in tandem and in service of Jane Penny’s unmistakable, wistful voice. The result of this mixture is a collection of four self-produced records and a handful of singles that cover a range of moods and a complex emotional realm while maintaining a groove and musicality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoft rock infused pop hits flow easily, surrounded by their signature moody ballads.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":50476919062859,"sku":"1162309","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"12\" - Frostbite","offer_id":56981152399691,"sku":"R5349-8013","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/03adb3ae-478a-4a4e-87b5-5fd19e81e22d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727465092"},{"product_id":"hundreds-of-days","title":"Hundreds of Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemories — places, vacancies, allusions — are fundamental characters in Mary Lattimore's evocative craft. Inside her music, wordless narratives, indefinite travelogues, and braided events skew into something enchantingly new. The Los Angeles-based harpist recorded her breakout 2016 album, \u003ci\u003eAt The Dam\u003c\/i\u003e, during stops along a road trip across America, letting the serene landscapes of Joshua Tree and Marfa, Texas color her compositions. In 2017, she presented \u003ci\u003eCollected Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e, a tape compiling sounds from her past life in Philadelphia: odes to the east coast, burning motels, and beach town convenience stores. In 2018, from a restorative station — a redwood barn, nestled in the hills above San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge — emanates \u003ci\u003eHundreds of Days\u003c\/i\u003e, her second full-length LP with Ghostly International. The record sojourns between silences and speech, between microcosmic daily scenes and macrocosmic universal understandings, between being alien in promising new places and feeling torn from old native havens. It's an expansive new chapter in Lattimore's story, and an expression of mystified gratitude. A study in how ordinary components helix together to create an extraordinary world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - With Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50478904049995,"sku":"1031598","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ac8cf744-f767-437c-b646-649883cca5c7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727494482"},{"product_id":"solar-bridge","title":"Solar Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmeralds — musicians John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire — emerged from the rust-pocked, post-millennial Midwest drone \/ noise scene seemingly unable or uninterested in keeping up with themselves. Their proliferation of material was intimidating; mountains of improvised, home-recorded music were released on limited-edition tapes, CD-Rs, and split LPs. There is and was a sense that the Ohio trio was after something beyond physical mediums. By 2008, their sprawling live sets were a known can't-miss at any underground experimental event. Tiny Mix Tapes reviewed that year's appearance at No Fun Fest: \"No one's sawtooths, sines, and other various waveforms were so beautifully sculpted and beamed out into the Plejades as Emeralds'.\" These basement dwellers were shaping meditative, psychedelic, arpeggiated electronic music in the veins of German kosmische forebears like Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, and Tangerine Dream. Made primarily with synthesizers and guitar, Emeralds' music possessed the same astral psyche with a home-crafted punk edge, a distant descendant of that pioneering era, and a bridge to someplace new, someplace scorched. Released on Aaron Dilloway's (Wolf Eyes, etc.) Hanson imprint, Solar Bridge was the first Emeralds album to receive any kind of proper distribution and represents the first attempt to archivally preserve their fluid craft. The first of an inimitable five-LP run before the band dissolved in 2013, \u003ci\u003eSolar Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e is a moment of glistening primacy that boots up a catalog and legacy that the heads still grapple with. Emeralds begin to make sense of it in the fall of 2022 with a remastered \u003ci\u003eSolar Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e LP release on Ghostly International.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50478924333387,"sku":"1165457","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50478924595531,"sku":"1165458","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a34c6436-ea89-4c33-8882-f3915a7d29c2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727494995"},{"product_id":"the-mosaic-of-transformation","title":"The Mosaic Of Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWest coast composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has chartered a pioneering career with multiple critically-acclaimed albums since 2015. Following the release of \u003ci\u003eThe Kid\u003c\/i\u003e in 2017, Smith focused her energy in several directions. She founded Touchtheplants, a multidisciplinary creative environment for projects including the first volumes in her instrumental Electronic Series and pocket-sized poetry books on the practice of listening within. She’s continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body’s relationship to sound and color. It is this life-guiding interest that forms the foundational frequencies of her most recent full-length, \u003ci\u003eThe Mosaic of Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile writing and recording, she embraced a daily practice of physical movement, passing electricity through her body and into motion, in ways reflecting her audio practice, which sends currents through modular synthesizers and into the air through speakers. Not a dancer by any traditional definition, she taught herself improvisatory movement realizing flexibility, strength, and unexpectedly, a “visual language” stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mosaic of Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e is a holistic manifestation of embodied motions. Smith’s signature textural curiosity that fans have grown to adore pivots naturally into a proprioceptive study of melody and timbre. Airy organ and voice interweave with burbling Buchla-spawned harmonic bubbles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Steady Heart\u003c\/i\u003e quivers to life, peppering blasts of wooden organ between winding vocal affirmations. As with a body, moving one portion requires a balance and counterbalance; here, subtle tonal twitchy signals fire in conjunction with coiling arias to create a mesmeric core. When the beat arrives at the midway mark, a swooping and jittery waltz, a sense of stasis in motion, a flow state, is sonically achieved. As soon as it syncs, it disappears back into the swirling ebbs of electric force. Other tracks stray into more ruminative physical realms. \u003ci\u003eCarrying Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e is built around string-like pads that expand and contract like a solar plexus, becoming taught and then loose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the record could be summarized in a single movement, it is the 10-minute closing suite, a rapturous collage called \u003ci\u003eExpanding Electricity.\u003c\/i\u003e Symphonic phrases establish the piece before washes of glittering electric peals and synthesized vibraphone helix into focus. Soon, Smith’s voice grounds it all with an intuitive vocal hook, harmonized and augmented by concentric spirals of harp-and-horn-like sounds. Smith’s music doesn’t capture a specific emotion as much as it captures the joys of possessing a body, and the ability to, with devotion and a steady open heart, maneuver that vessel in space by way of electricity to euphoric degrees. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50482824118603,"sku":"1091211","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50482823528779,"sku":"1091208","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b99504d1-21d2-4cd2-89f0-470c724ee6f1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727556506"},{"product_id":"espera","title":"Espera","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe catalog of American composer Keith Kenniff spans over a dozen releases as Helios and nearly as many as Goldmund since 2004. Kenniff’s music deals with subtlety, and the variance between these projects loosely follows a few signifiers; Goldmund favours post-classical piano, Mint Julep, a project with his partner Hollie, is shoegaze pop, while the lines around his Helios project are intentionally hazier. Within the alias, Kenniff glides between minimal ambient electronics and more robust instrumentation, all run through his mini-cassette recorder for a distinct wobble. 2018’s \u003ci\u003eVeriditas\u003c\/i\u003e, his first Helios LP on Ghostly International, found Kenniff shaping verdant landscapes of harmonic sound, focusing on texture over structure. He followed it up in 2020 with \u003ci\u003eDomicile\u003c\/i\u003e, an even quieter synth-toned ode to the indoors. Now he returns to the electro-acoustic movement that marked much of his earlier output; the music of \u003ci\u003eEspera\u003c\/i\u003e is lush, livelier, and perhaps the most singular in his run. Titles are telling in Kenniff’s work, and Espera, a Spanish word meaning “wait,” speaks to the producer’s patient and cinematic craft. The record balances engagement and contemplation with a billowing accessible lightness, and reveals Helios at a compelling intersection, composing songs as vivid and three-dimensional as they are characteristically modernist and understated. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Turquoise LP","offer_id":50483456442699,"sku":"2029545","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50483456115019,"sku":"2029543","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50483455525195,"sku":"2029541","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Espera_7b09ef8b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727567710"},{"product_id":"collected-pieces-2015-2020","title":"Collected Pieces: 2015-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album \u003ci\u003eSilver Ladders\u003c\/i\u003e (a year-end favourite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others), Los Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore returns with a culminating counterpart release, \u003ci\u003eCollected Pieces: 2015-2020\u003c\/i\u003e. The limited-edition albm features new and previously unreleased material, Bandcamp-only singles, and other obscurities alongside standouts from her 2017 tape \u003ci\u003eCollected Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA trove of pieces are collected here, most recorded in the moment, just Lattimore and her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand Harp, contact mics, and pedals. There’s the one about the American astronaut’s homecoming (“For Scott Kelly, Returned To Earth”), the Charlie Chaplin-like character who lost their glasses (“Be My Four Eyes”). Like her most affecting work, these songs showcase Lattimore’s gifts as an observer, able to shape her craft around emotional frequencies and scenes. Her power as a musician is rooted in how she sees the world: in vivid detail, profoundly empathic, with deep gratitude for nature and nuance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Gold | LP","offer_id":50485586198859,"sku":"1130841","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50485585346891,"sku":"1130840","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8a075a9d-2008-4bea-ba23-4a195a360be4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727601266"},{"product_id":"dissolvi","title":"Dissolvi","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn search of the sublime, contemporary electronic musician Steve Hauschildt has designed grids and panoramas of sound across multiple releases through the rise and dissolution of his former band, Emeralds, an American touchstone of 2000s home-recorded psychedelic noise music. Consistent with his solo work is Hauschildt's ability to coil his craft in precise, varied, and distinctly physical forms. Gently spinning arpeggios converse with post-industrial decay. Sonic fibers sway like pendulums from static melancholy to motorik bliss. \u003ci\u003eDissolvi\u003c\/i\u003e, the artist's first full-length with Ghostly International, engages sublimation from an ontological perspective: by dissociating the self. Hauschildt steps out from the singular path, for the first time in a traditional studio, to compose and arrange contributions from friends. As a result, his most collaborative work to date - featuring vocal contributions from Julianna Barwick and GABI - extends a vast, vibrating framework in w hich to consider the state of being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50486583853387,"sku":"1039885","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/96b07eca-2a12-42ae-bfaf-6fb64b5fc775_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727611826"},{"product_id":"dreams-are-not-enough","title":"Dreams Are Not Enough","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe return of storied Southern Gothic electronic entity Telefon Tel Aviv is as unexpected as it is impressive. Their three influential albums of the 2000’s—\u003ci\u003eFahrenheit Fair Enough, Map Of What Is Effortless\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eImmolate Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e—charted an increasingly turbulent and textured vision of post-IDM synthetic songcraft, until the sudden passing of founding member Charlie Cooper in 2009 ceased the project, presumably forever. During the decade since, co-founder Josh Eustis has performed with, produced, mixed, and mastered countless artists, from high-profile institutions (Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, Apparat) to underground fixtures (Belong, Vatican Shadow, Drab Majesty, Tropic Of Cancer), in addition to his own solo and collaborative work in Sons Of Magdalene and Second Woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut years of reflection and processing gradually seeded in him a desire to revive TTA and venture a fourth full-length, in the spirit of what they started: \u003ci\u003eDreams Are Not Enough\u003c\/i\u003e. From the shuddering software oscillations of the opening piece, “I dream of it often,” the classic Telefon palette of hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion feels vividly revitalized. The songs stand apart but belong together, threading a veiled narrative of loss, anger, and age—the crumbling of constancies, shifting sands slipping through the hourglass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album’s fragmented track titles relate a recurring dream that’s haunted Eustis since childhood, based on a murky incident during a family vacation to a remote Alabama coastline when he was eight. In the dream he swims alone through the waves past the sandbar to where the ocean shelf abruptly drops away into a gradient of infinite darkness; awed, he peers into the depths and sees himself down at the bottom, mouth open and eyes blank, floating motionless like a corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn undercurrent of eerie melancholy flows through the album, manifested in shivering widescreen meditations, depressive twilit modern pop, and devotional industrial abstractions. Melodies emerge and evaporate; rhythms lock in step then fracture and fade; centers cannot hold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Gold | LP | x2","offer_id":50496472383819,"sku":"1071712","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50496473203019,"sku":"1071710","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b4846dd9-f2a9-4d09-ad89-145ca9bff42a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727721234"},{"product_id":"music-for-film-1","title":"Music For Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eHis 2020 album, \u003ci\u003eMusic For Films\u003c\/i\u003e, marks the naturally-occurring intersection of his identities as a solo artist and a film score artist. The collection is now sequenced and released as a single autonomic movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo tracks originated from the 2019 documentary \u003ci\u003eHe Dreams of Giants\u003c\/i\u003e; another was first used in 2008 project Golgota wrocławska. Context removed, they fuse seamlessly; ten years time between some recordings, erased. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA visceral dynamism emerges here with a relatively restricted palette of sounds. Music moves in measured steps, inconspicuous yet holding attention. Opener \u003ci\u003eThe Zone\u003c\/i\u003e is curious and brittle, crawling on keys and a foundational bass thump as strings seep beneath in a raspy hush. Centerpiece \u003ci\u003eDance \u003c\/i\u003efolds into an ominous and molasses-slow trot through minor chords, spacious percussion, and static, all under the spell of a mournful violin lead. Windswept vocals haunt \u003ci\u003eLiina\u003c\/i\u003e from a distance, while they sink deeply into orchestral closer \u003ci\u003eNovember Late\u003c\/i\u003e. Jacaszek’s work is that of an auteur; he has signatures that he uses faithfully and with much aplomb. Listeners can expect subtle gesture and baroque grandeur on \u003ci\u003eMusic For Films\u003c\/i\u003e: soaring melodies cloaked in reverberation, delicate piano ruminations, and textural craftwork capable of creating and disrupting motifs, smothering and enchanting minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498414248267,"sku":"1090499","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8a49537d-f5f8-4abb-9380-c00889dbcbd6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727747480"},{"product_id":"dance-without-me","title":"Dance Without Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eInital copies of both formats come with a Drama badge. Massive pop album. A multicultural collaboration between producer Na’el Shehade and vocalist Via Rosa, the project plays to the complementary dynamics of their pairing, blurring the lines between R\u0026amp;B and dance-pop, heartbreak and bliss. Following their signing to Ghostly International in 2019, they realize their years-in-the-making full-length debut, aptly titled \u003ci\u003eDance Without Me\u003c\/i\u003e, a refined collection that recasts romantic tragedy as moonlit self-acceptance. Her soulful delivery, inspired by the improvisational nature of jazz and playful patterns of hip-hop and Bossa nova, interlocks with Shehade’s chic Chicago house-infused production style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the songs on \u003ci\u003eDance Without Me\u003c\/i\u003e began as freeform lyrical experiments. Rosa’s wistful sensibilities come unforced and amorphous; Shehade shapes the song-structures, often tinkering with them for months, abandoning and returning to each believing that music is already written inside of us, it’s just a matter of locating the outlet. He found the chorus of \u003ci\u003eYears\u003c\/i\u003e by playing the raw recording for his nephew and focusing on the words he kept singing along to. Built on an old school drum break, the track reassures from the darkness of distance and the push-pull of past infatuations. Backed by a diamond-sharp drum figure and foggy, lilting piano trills, \u003ci\u003eForever and a Day\u003c\/i\u003e is written from the perspective of someone who feels trapped in their relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50498612920651,"sku":"1080674","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498613150027,"sku":"1080673","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0e6f3bab-3e1e-4b1a-a99b-a5b31fd3b229_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727751077"},{"product_id":"dwell","title":"Dwell","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs electronic musician Lorenz Brunner sketched his vision for the first Recondite full-length on Ghostly in five years he took a step back to assess who and where he was as an artist. 2013’s \u003ci\u003eHinterland\u003c\/i\u003e accelerated a progression — he’s since been touring around the world and releasing music with labels such as Hotflush and his own Plangent Records — yet, for him, the album cast a shadow of pressure that widened over time. As with most art forms, perhaps especially music, there is an expectation to change, to creatively pivot elsewhere with each project. After careful consideration, Brunner rejects this notion with his new work, opting alternately to use the icy Hinterland as an aesthetic and tonal template for a like-minded map of evocative compositions aptly titled after the German word “stillstand,” now presented as \u003ci\u003eDwell\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWindswept, moody, and melodic, moments on \u003ci\u003eDwell \u003c\/i\u003elinger with emotional resonance. The title track sends an eerie synth loop through a field of techno kicks. The beats recede for a breather four minutes in as if to survey the surroundings. If Brunner pivots anywhere — possibly just a new perspective afforded by being confidently stationary in his craft — it’s by leaning more into hip-hop structures. He’s an avid rap fan and his love for those production techniques is notably present on\u003ci\u003e Nobilia\u003c\/i\u003e, a queasy shuffler (titled in reference to the Super Nintendo game Secret of Evermore), \u003ci\u003eInterlude 1\u003c\/i\u003e, which skitters in lockstep with contemplative synth chords, and \u003ci\u003eSurface\u003c\/i\u003e, an isolatory, ruminative sequence. The closer \u003ci\u003eMoon Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e soothes and shimmers like its namesake, a cherished gem in The Legend of Zelda series that allows carriers of the gem to retain their shape and essence in the Dark World. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50498721382731,"sku":"1082922","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7a5f8be8-f492-45cc-8e1d-82bbc5eef32b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727755216"},{"product_id":"i-could-be-your-dog-i-could-be-your-moon","title":"I Could Be Your Dog \/ I Could Be Your Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e“His music filled me with the urge to connect with the world,” Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith says of Emile Mosseri. She first heard his work while watching the 2019 film The Last Black Man In San Francisco; just minutes in, she paused it to look up who did the score and wrote to him immediately. “I love Emile’s ability to create melodies that feel magically scenic and familiar like they are reminding you of the innocence of loving life.” Those talents saw recognition in 2020 with an Oscar nomination for Mosseri’soriginal score to the film Minari. He was already a fan of Smith’s and became increasingly intrigued by her impressionistic process as they started to talk. “The music feels so spiritual and alive and made from the earth,” Mosseri says. “I think of her as the great conductor, summoning musical poetry from her orchestra of machines.” \u003ci\u003eI Could Be Your Dog \/ I Could Be Your Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, their two-part collaborative album, introduces an uncanny fusion of their sonics. Constructed using synthesizer, piano, electronics, and voice, this soft-focus dream world is lush, evocative, and fleeting. It finds two composers tuning their respective styles inward as an ode to mutual\u003cbr\u003einspiration, a celebration of the human spirit and its will to surrender to the currents of life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEarly into their correspondence, Smith and Mosseri realized they were neighbors in Los Angeles and met up for a few hikes. Their conversations led to a musical exchange over email. The exercise became a sketch, the start of their first song together, “Log In Your Fire,” with Mosseri finding flourishes in Smith’s cathartic synth lines to intonate and harmonize alongside. Lyrically, it’s a beautiful, open-ended sentiment. “Being a log in someone’s fire, to me, means letting go, and surrendering to that feeling,” says Mosseri. From there, the pair composed a series of musical foundations, trading files from afar, nurturing the eventual expansion as the remote days of 2020 set in. Smith likens the collaborative experience to the exciting uncertainty of starting a garden, “doing what I can to facilitate growth while enjoying the process of being surprised by what will actually grow.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 2021, the duo finished work on the sequel, \u003ci\u003eI Could Be Your Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, expanding their musical language as the first part reached its September release. Songs from these more recent exchanges find them even more synced, forging into percussive and harmonic experiments, leaning further into their “unused musical muscles,” as Smith and Mosseri put it. A unified vocal presence emerged. “As the friendship grew I think we both learned how to support each other more and musically that was communicated through singing together,” adds Smith.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNow taken as a full album set, \u003ci\u003eI Could Be Your Dog \/ I Could Be Your Moon\u003c\/i\u003e moves fluidly from track to track, panning through textural vi- gnettes. Two roughly 17-minute halves, the set evokes the bittersweet sense of something too bright or rare to last, a short-lived glimpse into a golden hour. There is a dreamy, elemental intention to this music, which Smith and Mosseri say came naturally, as they both embraced intuitive interplay throughout their creative back-and-forth. The stylistic threads of each composer are recognizable yet become more ambiguous as the album progresses, sewn into a singular vision. “I’m so grateful that my musical ideas could dance with hers with some grace and harmony,” says Mosseri. Smith adds that this experience helped her “remember that mu- sic can be a connecting layer of friendship, especially in a time when the usual ways were out of reach.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50503211549003,"sku":"1151965","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50503212204363,"sku":"1151967","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7f89ae7f-4c0c-4c85-8360-20063eda7dab_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727793968"},{"product_id":"dive-10th-anniversary","title":"Dive (10th Anniversary)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile his formative years were spent listening to everything from Yes to Photek, \u003cstrong\u003eScott Hansen\u003c\/strong\u003e didn’t get his hands on an actual guitar or drum machine until he left his native Sacramento for San Francisco in 1995. Encountering this whole new world at 20 years old was a profound experience,\" says Hansen, better known by his musical pseudonym \u003cstrong\u003eTycho\u003c\/strong\u003e and as the graphic artist ISO50.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs seamless as his two creative outlets have been, nearly a decade passed before the release of Hansen’s first proper Tycho LP, \u003cem\u003eSunrise Projector\u003c\/em\u003e (later expanded and reissued under the title \u003cem\u003ePast Is Prologue\u003c\/em\u003e). And while three striking singles have emerged since then, the sum of all those sepia-toned parts is nowhere near the double-exposed soundscapes of \u003cem\u003eDive\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe product of a prolonged break from ISO50’s design work and blog, it pays tribute to Tycho’s prismatic past (the dense, guitar-guided turning points of “Daydream” and “Adrift”) but spends most of its time pointing to the project’s not-so-distant future. That can mean any number of things, really, from the halcyon hooks and hopeful horizons of “A Walk” to the expansive, wildly expressive tone poetry of the title track, an eight-minute epic that unfolds like a compressed concept album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOr at the very least, a restless vision of prog-rock—one that’s been coated in neon colors and filtered through a thick piece of blotter paper. And then there’s “Elegy,” a spare curtain closer that pairs a vulnerable crescendo with a fitting bridge to future works. And with that, \u003cem\u003eDive\u003c\/em\u003e establishes its position as the most diverse musical statement of Hansen’s multi-medium career; the point where his skills as a performer finally catch up with his vaporized vision of a world that doesn’t belong to any particular time or place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Nostalgia is a common thread in my work,” says Hansen, “but this album wasn’t driven by that idea. I see these songs as artifacts from a future which might have more in common with our past than our present.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Orange LPx2","offer_id":50504337424715,"sku":"1166751","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7627ecba-73de-4aae-83e3-7e492f6da72f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727803896"},{"product_id":"angelo","title":"Angelo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngelo\u003c\/i\u003e is an EP, named after a car, featuring nine songs Brijean have crafted and carried with them through a period of profound change, loss, and relocation. It finds percussionist \/ singer Brijean Murphy and multi-instrumentalist \/ producer Doug Stuart processing the impossible the only way they know how: through rhythm and movement. The months surrounding the acclaimed release of Feelings, their full-length Ghostly International debut in 2021 which celebrated tender self-reflection and new possibilities, rang bittersweet with the absence of touring and the sudden passing of Murphy’s father and both of Stuart’s parents. In a haze of heartache, the duo left the Bay Area to be near family, resetting in four cities in under two years. Their to-go rig became their traveling studio and these tracks, along with Angelo, became their few constants. Whereas Feelings formed over collaborative jams with friends, Angelo’s sessions presented Murphy and Stuart a chance to record at their most intimate, “to get us out of our grief and into our bodies,” says Murphy. They explored new moods and styles, reaching for effervescent dance tempos and technicolor backdrops, vibrant hues in contrast to their more somber human experiences. Angelo beams with positivity and creative renewal — a resourceful, collective answer to “what happens now?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngelo the car is a 1981 Toyota Celica they got off Craigslist during their first stint in Los Angeles, where Murphy and Stuart have since settled. “Such a bro-y, ‘80s dude car, it’s been super fun to drive around in a new town,” Murphy says. “He’s older than us, he’s a classic, he’s got a story.” It is a spiritual vehicle with a cinematic appeal, first dropping them off in an alleyway for the scene-setting intro, “Which Way To The Club.” The question is quickly resolved by “Take A Trip” as a cruising bassline mingles with crowd sounds, hand-claps, cuíca hiccups, whip-cracks, even a horse neigh. Brijean have found some club on this cross-dimensional trip — the kind of imagined space or chamber within one’s self capable of “shifting a fraction of who you are,” says Murphy. They wrote the track with the simple intention to be “as free as we could be,” adds Stuart, likening the flip on the B section to a realm unlocked: ”What if the world changed completely? You open the door to a new room.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext is “Shy Guy,” a motivational anthem for the wallflowers among us. Murphy sets up the daydream: “We are in junior high, we’re on the dance floor, what’s going down, who is dancing, who is not, how are we gonna make them dance?” The narrator, the MC, hypes up the room as conga-driven rhythms bounce between languid synth and guitar lines. “Show me how to move...I feel something...I know you feel it too,” Murphy sings sweetly, calling back to the opening lines of Feelings, and this time the audience chants it back. It is easy to picture Brijean performing this one — something they only got to do a handful of times until more recently, opening shows for Khruangbin and Washed Out, an experience they found informative. Murphy explains, “It was inspiring to be out there and let loose more. To see how people can expand their expression on stage gave me more liberty with how I viewed my musicianship. My role for so long was to be a backup percussionist, so why would I ever leave the drums, you know? But then after playing all these runs, you see these artists and realize you can, you have permission.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Angelo” and “Ooo La La” deliver the danciest stretch in Brijean’s catalog to date. The title track adopts a deep house pulse replete with strings, hi-hats, and kicks. The latter opts for a funkier groove that foregoes verses in favor of warbled hums and extended breakdowns. What follows is perhaps the duo’s dreamiest run, a comedown initiated with the honey-hued interlude “Colors” drifting into “Where Do We Go?”, a tropicália reverie where Murphy contemplates the passage of time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all culminates in “Caldwell’s Way,” a fond farewell to their Bay Area community — “a part of my life that I knew couldn’t come back,” says Murphy. Above shimmering organ sounds, lush strings, and the birdcall of their former neighborhood, she wistfully articulates the uncertainty of moving on by remembering the characters dear to them. There’s the wisdom of their neighbor, Santos, who refused payment when helping them move out: “I’d rather have 100 friends than 100 dollars.” And the song’s namesake, Benjamin Caldwell Brown, a friend and club night cohort for many years. “I’m only miles away, maybe I’m just feeling lonely,” the line resigns to warm nostalgia, and “Nostalgia” runs the closing credits to this healing and transportive collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Pink LP","offer_id":50505569763659,"sku":"2009301","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Angelo_326e247e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727815141"},{"product_id":"hot-wet-and-sassy","title":"Hot Wet and Sassy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s been four years since \u003ci\u003eSweatbox Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e, the fourth solo LP from Pennsylvanian experimentalist Tobacco. In that time, Tom Fec’s project has toured with Nine Inch Nails, provided the theme song to HBO series Silicon Valley, and teamed with Aesop Rock for a collaborative album as Malibu Ken. He now returns to Ghostly International for \u003ci\u003eHot Wet and Sassy\u003c\/i\u003e, a full-length album oozing with his most playful and approachable songs to date, which, conversely, express notions of antilove, self-hate, and disappointment in others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePop impulses have always surged beneath the surface of his sound — blown-out bass, analog synths, drum machines, and Fec’s unmistakable analog gurgle and hiss — here they’ve bubbled to the top. The track \u003ci\u003eBabysitter\u003c\/i\u003e features a collaboration with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50508672958795,"sku":"1098994","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/adb498fb-f128-49ec-bf3f-3f51f6b953f3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727861040"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_4252a501_thumbnail_4096_409ff0e2-0997-4b5f-8ed4-b73951779cff.jpg?v=1726005825","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/ghostly-international.oembed?page=2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}