"I wasn't expecting this at all...with a name like ghost anything I've been biased into thinking this is going to be some kind of messed up glitch synth project, but maybe I'm getting confused by TV Ghost.
Instead these's some jangly indie phaser guitar-ing and tight snare kind of a Nodzzz feel to this track "D+" from the A-side, and on their myspace, but I've been listening to them a lot lately...it's not as clean and catchy, it's sort of creating a mood out of being unassuming. It's sparse a little k-recs cute even, vocally bordering on some 90's English twee, or Beck even.
Until the chorus starts and then it's a whole new world, I'm struggling to even come up with a comparasin it's so fleeting, but it's so jarringly different from the sing song direction this seemed to be going, it's a really interesting combination.
By the time that first meandering melody comes back, there's layers of feedback and noodling from the chorus on top of everything. Then it abruptly cuts out and there's another verse from the beginning that fades out with some backwards sounding guitar on top...very weird.
Like nothing from Florida I would ever think of.If the other tracks there are any judge, then D+ is by far the most produced sounding, in that they seem to be a little in love with the recording process and messing with sound texture, room sound and vocal effects. Very home recorded and spontaneous.Get it from the Ghost Hospital's myspace or their label Teen Ape records.
I'm surprised they still have some copies left."
-- JASON, 7 INCHES BLOGSPOT
http://www.7inches.blogspot.com/2009/04/ghost-hospital-from-ss.html========================================================
Ghost Hospital "D+" 7"
Florida continues to crank out the records (via PGH even!), this time
from Tampa fucking Bay, and as bad as their baseball team is right now,
I have to imagine the 'garage' rock scene there is even worse. So good
on Ghost Hospital for operating in what must be one hot fucking vacuum.
As I was searching for words to describe "D+", the one I could not
shake was 'quirky'. They are a quirky pop band, near child-like in
their approach, but belying their simplicity with a song titles like
"Religious Bias In Nursery Rhymes". Clever, eh? People thought the Dead
Milkmen were clever too. Kiddie songs for adults and all that. It's
meandering and drifting soft stuff, lower-fi, echoey vox, and they
aren't afraid to let their hair down and feedback just a little here
and there. This single is going to hit fans of Box Elders and Wounded
Lion squarely in the clitoris. Wimp party in queer city, queens! These
kids sound like they got a little guts to go along with their lite-pop.
It's cute and all, but I suggest if you buy this you claim it belongs
to your girlfriend if anyone asks. Really. It has a baby wearing
glasses on the cover for fuck's sake.(RK)
(Teen Ape Records // www.teenaperecords.com)
from Terminal Boredom
http://www.terminal-boredom.com/reviews23.html
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If you lived in a place the is the butt of cultural wasteland you might
be a little irritated by what people expect from first impressions. Ya
don't want to come
off like some strip mall raised and McDonald Happy Meal toy entertained
mook. Ya wanna show you have, y'know, actual taste or something.
Tampa,
Fla based Ghost Hospital probably wrestle this dilemma every day. While
some bands today are happy with using, say, the same template the Black
Lips based their sound off of (and nothing else) this band sound like
they can't resist crossing wire of something like that hoping they'll
either start a fire or blow a fuse.
The standard Nu-Garage thing
gets spliced together with somewhat out whack folk rock and cracks a
couple of really clever one liners over a din of squelch and feedback.
"D+" plays into all three quite a bit with a little bit reverb which
then leads into something that fans the hippie music Stephen Malkmus
has been making for quite a bit might bop their head to. Y'know, it's
happy trip. It then gives way to a torrential downpour of feedback
throwing the mellow buzz into burning pit of static before sauntering
back to bip-de-bop where the journey started. The flip's "Religious
Bias In Nursery Rhymes" gives off a sound such as a crackly distant
college radio of the 80's where the dj are stoned and like to
experiment with playing Replacements and Jesus & Mary Chain demos
loud and at the same time .
http://www.myspace.com/ghosthospital