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- Summary: Train disasters from late 19th and early 20th centuries are the focus of this concept album from the San Francisco-based art collective.
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- Record Label: Cryptic Corporation
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Mar 22, 2017This moving yet strangely exhilarating album is a distant relative of The Residents’ 1979 album Eskimo, their sonic studies of Arctic culture.
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Mar 31, 2017This is probably their best record in years--so jump on board.
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UncutMar 22, 2017As a metaphor for modern accelerationism, it's slyly provocative. [Apr 2017, p.37]
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The WireAug 8, 2017The album never quite wallows in gross out carnage or tragedy or blame (though these are here, for sure), but spins these yarns, perverse detail at a time, with the laconic humour of a short story by Richard Brautigan or Thomas Pynchon, stopping just short of mockery. [May 2017, p.53]
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Mar 22, 2017A concept album about early American rail disasters, The Ghost Of Hope sounds more naturalistic than many Residents albums, with plenty of chugging engine noises, and strings summoning conventional tragedy, as grisly crashes are recounted in typically sinister Residential tones. But it’s punctuated by startling musical moments.
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Apr 3, 2017Musically, the album sounds like the Residents. That means that the synths are dark sounding, the vocals are a little distorted, and the instruments sound somehow in-tune and out-of-tune simultaneously.
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MojoMar 22, 2017Instrumental rhythms and all manner of sound effects are used to colour in these morbidly compelling stories. [Apr 2017, p.90]