Ghostel
Presenting the world premiere for Ghostel’s new single “Tramp” that features Annie Hardy from Giant Drag; the group establishes a sound that welcomes grand sound presentations that signal the sensations of festival seasons soon to follow. Following their track “Buckley Get Your Gun” that was featured in the trailer for Mustang; Bryce Buckmaster alongside the couple Daniel Knowles (formerly of Amusement Parks on Fire) & Jennifer Farmer establish sound to accompany wandering souls with an overwhelming sense of belonging & unlimited comfort.
“Tramp” is a track that rides onward into the gateway of sunsets & the onset of evening in a modern day gospel hymn for the outcast looking inward from the outskirts of city limits & lonesome borderlines. Knowles connects the creative innovations of today with Ghostel’s love for retro-foundations as together the group sings their heart out like a wandering family band in an anthem for the exiled. All the big hooks, chords & reverberating walls of echoing sound are employed on “Tramp” that gallops like a horse-drawn carriage of mystic music makers seeking to establish an abode or at least a Utopian outpost built out of nothing but heart. Ghostel’s Jennifer, Daniel, Bryce & Annie give everything their spirit has in them in a song that imagines hands & arms outstretched upward to receive some sort of divine sign of redemption & solace.
Ghostel provided exclusive insights on the making of their new single “Tramp” & their album 1414:
The closing track from our 1414 album, “Tramp” is a duet from the point of view of a couple in a relationship that has probably seen better days. To represent the woman’s perspective we enlisted our friend Annie Hardy, one of NME’s 50 coolest People formerly of the excellent band Giant Drag and presently of the excellent solo artist “Annie Hardy”. Annie came over one afternoon and wrote several of the lyrics and recorded them pretty much on the spot, she’s a beast.
Musically, like several other songs on the album it could be described as a roughly soul influenced song gone quite wrong. It was recorded, as was most of the album, largely in our house and garage. The main piano chords were recorded on a $20 upright piano that was somewhat out of tune and had a broken sustain pedal. That piano ended up being at the center of several of our favorite songs on the album as it turned out, this being one of them.
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