Artist
– Lonely Ghosts
Title
– Don't
Get Lost or Hurt
Catalogue
# - OIB004
Formats
Available –
CD / Download
Release
Date – OIB
Records July 28th / Stores August 11th
Songs:
•
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
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
