-=- SHGZ -=- * Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal * ARTIST..: TV Ghost ALBUM...: Cold Fish GENRE...: Alternative STYLE...: Post-Punk, Noise, Synth Punk, Garage Punk, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock YEAR....: 2009 LABEL...: In The Red Recordings COUNTRY.: USA PLACE...: Lafayette, IN FORMED..: 2006 ENCODER.: LAME 3.100 -V0 BITRATE.: 271 kbps avg QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo SOURCE..: CD TRACKS..: 10 SIZE....: 48.97 MB URL..: https://www.facebook.com/TVGhost https://www.discogs.com/release/4412045-TV-Ghost-Cold-Fish https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/tv_ghost/cold_fish - TRACKLIST 1 The Consumption 2:14 2 The Network 2:24 3 The Drunkard 2:13 4 Seasick 2:33 5 The Singularity 2:20 6 The Recluse 2:18 7 Bastille 1:48 8 Greek 2:09 9 Paradigm 2:44 10 Cold Fish 4:18 Total Playtime: 25:01 Against all odds, there is still cause to be excited when skinny, white kids with Lyle Lovette hair discover feedback. TV Ghost's debut full-length, Cold Fish, is a truly raw, rock & roll cataclysm that stands as quite an achievement for such a young band. These Lafayette, Indiana residents drive with a youthful discord that shrieks like a freight-train covered with aluminum foil and thumb tacks. The closet approximation I can afford TV Ghost is that of a Monks cover band collaboration between Suicide and Drive Like Jehu, fronted, from several rooms and closed doors away, by a really high Lux Interior. Or maybe even the B-52s. At any rate, the paranormal reference is not idle. Cold Fish, the band's first for In The Red, might be the score of a haunted house film in which tense, string-arrangements are sacrificed for an epileptic, noise-mare that sounds like, "Oh shit." Jackson Vanhorn and co. phrase their art punk garbage with the care of a free jazz sax-man, expertly marking the difference between urgency and novelty. From opener, "The Consumption" on, Cold Fish is every bit as dangerous and well-crafted as a catastrophic mess can be. Expel all doubt: TV Ghost have just pissed a much-needed and epic new line in the sandbox of bratty, noise-makers. * About: Taking their name from the phenomenon of analog television frequency disturbances, Lafayette, Indiana's TV Ghost began as purveyors of an especially sludgy and punishing brand of art-punk. The band formed in 2006, with vocalists/guitarists Tim Gick and Jimmy Frezza recruiting keyboardist Brahne Hoeft and drummer Jackson VanHorn. Their first 7", "Atomic Rain," was released by Die Stasi Records, also home at the time to the noisy likes of Pink Reason and Zola Jesus. The band's sinister sound -- which echoed the Scientists and the Cramps' mid-'70s output -- and frantic live shows won them an underground following. Late in 2007, Frezza left the band to go to art school, and bassist Shawn Beckering joined the fold in time to record a nine-song EP that arrived in early 2008. That year, TV Ghost signed to In the Red to release a full-length album and appeared at the label's South by Southwest showcase. The band also released The Fiend/Prodome as a part of Columbus Discount's Single of the Month Club in May 2009, a few months before their debut full-length Cold Fish surfaced. In 2010, VanHorn departed; Hoeft took over drumming duties and Frezza returned as keyboardist. Gick, Hoeft, and Frezza recorded the band's second album, Mass Dream, and TV Ghost then embarked on a lengthy tour of the U.S. and Europe. Once the tour was finished, Beckering left and TV Ghost recruited bassist Tristan Ivas. In the Red released Mass Dream in April 2011, and the following year the Phantasm/Panic Area single arrived on Sweet Rot Records. Later in 2012, VanHorn rejoined TV Ghost as a guitarist, and this lineup of the band opted for a slower, more expansive sound influenced by Echo and the Bunnymen and the Cure. The hypnotic Disconnect, which featured production work by Chris Woodhouse, arrived in September 2013. -=- SHGZ -=- -=-=-==-=-=- Shoegaze is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the late 80s. The genre is very difficult to define, and it is even more difficult to evaluate music within it. Generally, the genre is characterized by its shimmering vocals, reverberating guitars, and textural distortion that create a tranquil, opaque feeling. ---==--==---