No, I know. Your daily routines have injected the ADD in your veins. So taking some time off would bring back your focus. Cause procrastination is what we’re currently best at. So don’t even mention remembering what happened on this blog a while back. Never mind, a while back we posted “Inn Keaping”, a 10-minute slowburner by The Sea and Cake and I told you how it reminded me of Wilco’s “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”. Here on “Debut” I get the same impression, except that it builds itself up a bit faster, a few pleasant harmless lines and then you’re out on your own, the way you were left halfway on your own on The War on Drugs’ “Best Night”. This dangling wander may not last long but I can resort to that immune indie rock for tonight. I’d sooner not defy my limits for now.

[♫] Adios Amigo - “Debut”

[♫] Adios Amigo - “Easy To Hide”

The breezy San Fransisco act, Adios Amigo are on the loose with their self-titled debut EP that can be directly obtained through their bandcamp.

Photo: Part-time Job by davidfromdallas

We don’t know a lot about Black Polygons. They are tentatively from Paris! But their starting free EP was enamoring enough for me to wait for more and the wait was utterly worthwhile. Here you can stream their self-titled minimal ambient noise-psych machine LP and have the first song “Symmetry” for free.

[♫] Black Polygons - “Symmetry”

The album consists of 13 profoundly atmospheric experimental electronic soundscapes that despite the short duration do not serve as Prefuse 73-like short circuits. To my opinion each track gives birth to its own observatory probe while - just like the act’s withdrawn identity - does not divulge and elaborate on its offspring. This keeps us longing for more. But the work is kaleidoscopic enough to be gone through again. I’ll keep you posted if they let us know who they are.

Soon a year after their self-titled debut, Cardinal disbanded in 1995. It remained the sole collaboration of Richard Davies and Eric Matthews. They both pursued solo careers. Hymns is their new unlikely album after sixteen years and it is released today. Below you can download the first single:

[♫] Cardinal - “Carbolic Smoke Ball”

Not to be mixed with Ryan Adams backing band, the duo is best described as 60s-infused chamber orchestra pop or as they like to call it “following the Beatles and Bee Gees and before Belle & Sebastian”. It may also remind some folks of Sebadoh and Dandy Warholes at points. The song is about the first essay in law Davies ever read.

For a full stream head over AOL Spinner before it’s late and if you find it soothing, buy the album from Fire Records.

Photo: Dave Cooper via Illustration Inspiration

I’m not a big fan of leaving people. I’m not a big fan of people leaving me either. But there always comes a time when you have to utter the bitter, the goodbye, in the airport. And then comes an often emotional hour of solitude. It also happens to be peaceful and relaxing, too. It doesn’t necessarily have to calm you down, but in the transit area you already feel a little weightless and comfy as though you’re already halfway toward your destination city. Last year my airport music was Twin Shadow: melodic but not enticing, a sort of electro-pop you usually find appealing without an effort. I’d like to have more posts on airport music. This is an inevitable fraction of our lives, and the music behind it serves as an aura sticking to moments.

Air Tycoon’s “Los Angeles” does not sit in the same category as Twin Shadow but can fit the waiting atmosphere well. It’s repetitive in nature but does not require your attention. It’s stays in a plasma state of stability like it’s not supposed to excite you. And that’s how I’m going to have it on my iPod I reckon.

Late December last year, Air Tycoon released an album with an unbelievably funny title (Fuck Everything I’m God). You can stream it via bandcamp. “Los Angeles” is the latest tune.

Photo: unknown - but it’s hauntingly beautiful, right? There’s beauty in the industry. At least there’s something going on in there. There’s beauty in the dead too not to mention.

I’m currently listening to Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities by The Books and therefore tickling the tip of my nerves with their insane thrift store sampling. I admit it’s sometimes not music at all. And I admit I take pleasure in that! But the nice thing about me is that I’m always enthusiastic in sharing my sonic challenges. But the elevator music Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong designated for us goes some seven years back. Not that everything you read here on Ghost FM deals with real-time, but I’d rather share something newer from this NYC duo’s vocal half. Bad news for all folks who don’t enjoy working with simulators or random number generators, for he is applying the same surplus dose of aleatoricism to his latest extended play i.e. Idiom Wind. The title song is available in limited edition 7” vinyl format through MakeMine. Below you’re streaming its first tune. How can something this minimal be this confusing? You need math. But this is Zammuto we’re talking.