Finally the long wait is over! Having been in production for 10 months, One Inch Badge Records are incredibly proud to announce the imminent release of the debut Lonely Ghosts mini-lp ‘Don’t Get Lost or Hurt’.

From the first moment we heard Tom Denney scream his lungs out at the second ever Help She Can’t Swim gig at the Freebutt in Brighton we’ve been huge fans. So its great pleasure that we can now add Lonely Ghosts as a fully fledged member of the OIB Records roster.

The 8 track mini-album comes on CD and download formats (iTunes and the like) and is available from our webstore on Monday July 28th and in all good stores throughout Europe on Monday August 11th (OIB Records are represented throughout Europe via Southern Records).

 

The first 150 copies of the album bought in the OIB Records webstore will also come with a limited edition set of 4 Lonely Ghosts badges designed by Tom Denney and friends.

4th badge design coming soon…

You can hear tracks from the album right now on the Lonely Ghosts MySpace page at www.myspace.com/lonelyghosts as well as download the track The Unpopular Future and check out live videos right now on our media page.

UK Lonely Ghosts - Don't Get Lost or Hurt £6.50

EUROPE Lonely Ghosts - Don't Get Lost or Hurt £7.50

REST OF WORLD Don't Get Lost or Hurt £8.00

Tracklisting:

• So Young, So Beautiful
• Plough Through
• Happy Lovers / Friends Forever
• It’s Time To Wake Up
• Maybe You Could Save Me
• The Unpopular Future
• Good Times
• Hole In The Sky

You’ll be able to hear the full album streamed on our OIB Records Wimpy Player between 21st-28th July and 4th-11th August.

Lonely Ghosts is the brainchild of Brighton cased musician Tom Denney. During the past four years Denney has been co-vocalist and guitarist in the south coast indie-noise kids Help She Can’t Swim, with whom he recorded 2 albums, a host of singles and EPs and toured the world playing with the likes of the Blood Brothers, Sleater Kinney, CSS, Deerhoof and Melt Banana.

When a period of downtime from Help She Can’t Swim arose, Denney took the opportunity to explore what he could create outside of the group songwriting dynamic. With a handful of songs and ideas rattling around his head Denney retreated to his home studio with a laptop, a collection of guitars and keyboards and a CD of drum machine samples and settled into a personal experiment in solo song writing. He emerged 8 weeks later under the pseudonym of Lonely Ghosts with nearly an albums worth of material and a definitive project. Exploring more pop, electro and acoustic influences than HSCS, Lonely ghosts is an eclectic amalgamation of sounds all held together by his love for a pure ‘pop’ tune.

Musically broader and more personal than Denney’s previous output in HSCS, this debut mini-album ‘Don’t Get Lost or Hurt’ sees electronic beats and casio keys rubbing shoulders with classical instruments and sweeping string sounds. Stylistically and emotionally the record veers from the uplifting romantic build of ‘Happy Lovers / Friends Forever’, to the desperate electro-punk abandon of ‘The Unpopular Future’ and the downbeat loneliness of album closer ‘Hole in the Sky’ and its climatic washes of droning synths, piano and tape noise.

Don’t Get Lost or Hurt also features contributions from guest musicians including Help She Can’t Swim band mate Leesey Frances and label mate The Tumbledown Estate.

Tour Dates:
August 9th 2008:
At Home By The Sea Festival @ Concorde 2, Brighton

August 18th 2008:
Record Release Party @ The Albert, Brighton W/ The Death Set + Lovvers

September 12th 2008:
End of the Road Festival @ Lamer Tree Gardens, North Dorset

Up-coming Releases:

Double A-side single due December 2008
Full Length Album due February 2009