The Pattern Forms - Peel Away the Ivy

Debut album releasing in October. 

https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/peel-away-the-ivy/

Looking forward to this..

nice

i'm sorry to say i'm not feeling these samples in the slightest

https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/peelawaytheivy

I like it - sounds like late 1980s soft rock but I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed.  It's certainly a long way from the hauntology stuff that Ghostbox normally do. 

The album cover and typography are completely at odds with music.

Listening to 'Don't Let Me Dream', I keep expecting to hear Phil Collins.

Yikes maybe this will grow on me or something.

Mixcloud set to celebreate the album release:

https://m.mixcloud.com/GhostBox/programme-16-the-pattern-forms-mix/

The band is doing an in-store set at Rough Trade East, Oct 21 6-8pm with Julian House spinning as well.

This is out tomorrow. Gonna wait until I can hear previews of everything. So far it sounds like some contrived mash-up of Hall & Oates with Phil Collins. 

About as far away from Ghost Box as you could probably get.

https://youtu.be/2W_7gL3YmdU

I don't know what Ghost Box are doing lately. After the Belbury Poly album a few months back, and now this. It's like they want to reinvent themselves as some kind 70s prog label.

Wasn't Stasis like their highest selling album ever, or close to it?

Yes. Although admittedly, I read that on their website.

I thought this was going to be some esoteric electronic lushness, is it not?

Checked the samples ......erm...glad I didn't impulse buy

definitely a Peter Cetera vibe goin on

lots of nice moments throughout but i don't like the vocals

  On 10/27/2016 at 2:16 PM, QQQ said:

lots of nice moments throughout but i don't like the vocals

absolutely this. 

i've been really turned off by their output with vocals ever since john foxx and the belbury circle. i wouldn't mind so much if it were just a few tracks but entire albums with vocals is just argh.

also, what the hell happened to john brooks' applied music series? he said they'd come out occasionally but it's already been 3 years since the last one and the closest thing has been sequences which isn't even for sale

  On 10/27/2016 at 11:08 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 10/27/2016 at 2:16 PM, QQQ said:

lots of nice moments throughout but i don't like the vocals

 

absolutely this. 

 

i've been really turned off by their output with vocals ever since john foxx and the belbury circle. i wouldn't mind so much if it were just a few tracks but entire albums with vocals is just argh.

 

also, what the hell happened to john brooks' applied music series? he said they'd come out occasionally but it's already been 3 years since the last one and the closest thing has been sequences which isn't even for sale

 

Have yo ever heard the DD Denham thing? The title is a nod to an early 1970's Dracula film.

didn't know that about the name; that was my favorite cafe kaput release, but i gave up that anything even remotely close to that will be released again. unless brooks is waiting for a ten year anniversary to "discover" more compositions from the classroom

I think a new The Advisory Council album would be appropriate soon.

Jon is recording sessions now according to his Twitter, and has a new library track here:

http://www.cezame-fle.co.uk/liste_titres_album.php?id_album=1842

  On 10/27/2016 at 11:40 PM, Nebraska said:

didn't know that about the name; that was my favorite cafe kaput release, but i gave up that anything even remotely close to that will be released again. unless brooks is waiting for a ten year anniversary to "discover" more compositions from the classroom

A still from 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' (1974)