On April 29th, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (The GOASTT) will release ‘Midnight Sun’, a guided tour of bold, shape-shifting sonic murals and evocative lyrical panoramas, via Chimera Music.
Plucking musical ingredients from all over the map, the album has a
highly imaginative and distinct feel. It celebrates the unusual and the
grandiose but fundamentally just rocks hard and feels good.
Like the hero in the album’s melancholy “Don’t Look Back Orpheus”
who takes a journey into a dreamlike underworld, the listener embarks
on an auditory voyage of soaring whimsical keyboards and crunching
space-age guitars that blends original melodies with kaleidoscopic
freakouts. ‘Midnight Sun’ injects a surreal landscape with colorful, classic hooks.
With an infectious sense of adventure akin to Beck and Flaming Lips, and several years of touring and recording under their belt, The GOASTT
takes their creative and savvy approach to psychedelia to new extremes.
The ambitious songs flow cleverly together with unexpected ease to tell
a vivid and provocative story.
Familiar yet compelling, visceral and vital, Midnight Sun is at once a response to the bizarre world we’ve inherited and helped to create, and a refreshing escapist daydream that, if not hopeful, is keenly insightful. The GOASTT has given us a record that is poised to be a postmodern-psychedelic classic.
Familiar yet compelling, visceral and vital, Midnight Sun is at once a response to the bizarre world we’ve inherited and helped to create, and a refreshing escapist daydream that, if not hopeful, is keenly insightful. The GOASTT has given us a record that is poised to be a postmodern-psychedelic classic.
The GOASTT has been busy since their debut. The band toured with The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala, performed at the Hollywood Bowl with Jean-Claude Vannier and released a Record Store Day vinyl EP entitled ‘La Carotte Bleue‘.
Muhl released an EP with her teenage folk duo Kemp & Eden, who also
performed in the film Greetings From Tim Buckley. Lennon, meanwhile,
released a record by his experimental duo Mystical Weapons with
Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, a film score to the indie comedy Alter Egos and
produced the new album by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.
Midnight Sun track listing:
Too Deep
Xanadu
Animals
Johannesburg
Midnight Sun
Last Call
Devil You Know
Golden Earrings
Great Expectations
Poor Paul Getty
Don’t Look Back Orpheus
Moth To A Flame
Too Deep
Xanadu
Animals
Johannesburg
Midnight Sun
Last Call
Devil You Know
Golden Earrings
Great Expectations
Poor Paul Getty
Don’t Look Back Orpheus
Moth To A Flame
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