Ghost Outfit

“I Was Good When I Was Young recalls one of those those primal garageland duos that have been doing the rounds since the White Stripes (such as the Pack AD and Black Keys), with a hint of Mark E Smith’s megaphone demagoguery. Cough is like hearing the din from 50s Sheffield; three minutes of metal machine music that you imagine Lou Reed’s formless opus might be like. PLO RMX is a ballad, only an Einstürzende Neubauten one, a love song soundtracked by the collapse of new buildings: you can just about make out the strum of an acoustic guitar over the hubbub. I Didn’t Know is curious, like a Billy Bragg ditty resulting from a jam session with My Bloody Valentine or Throbbing Gristle. And that’s just side one of the Young Ghosts EP. Side two’s highlights include Boy, which is one part strummy acoustica to two parts electric riffing, and Home, which is 90 seconds of found sounds, of silence and hiss, that make us imagine a microphone left in the front room of a serial killer as he goes about his mundane business. Creepy.” The Guardian “there’s no-one more unique than Ghost Outfit.” City Life (M.E.N.) “Lo-fi is what they’ve termed it, but this is essentially an ode to No Age in all their ramshackle glory, only fragmented into the bands individual parts. Live, they stick with the tried and tested method of making emotion the top priority, the aural sprint through the fleshed out skeletons of their songs. Recorded, however, they channel the more experimental side of their LA forerunners, sampling and looping to make a library of bizarre sounds which they funnel into songs. It’s the latter that’s most arresting, making genuinely interesting electronic noise a world away from the faded hip hop glamour of their peers.” This is Fake DIY