Warm Pad, Sharp Stab, by Phono Ghosts

Warm Pad, Sharp Stab

by Phono Ghosts

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Paolo ME Another masterpiece from Blackpool's school melody master Phono Ghosts. Very personal style and incredible taste for melody and sound. Favorite track: Only Us.

EMOTION WAVE Like remembering an Alexander O'Neal album during a fever nightmare. Awesome.

amc Every track a winner - you can't go wrong with it Favorite track: Only Us.

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Two Phono Ghosts vinyl releases for a special price. Includes download codes for both releases (will be emailed to you after purchase).

Includes unlimited streaming of Warm Pad, Sharp Stab via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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12" black vinyl. White poly-lined inner sleeve. 250 copies.

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12" vinyl test pressing of Warm Pad, Sharp Stab. Plain white outer sleeve with handwritten titling (except #9 which has a black sleeve). Poly-lined inner sleeve. Stickered, hand-numbered and signed.

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Orange cassette tape with on-body print in black library case. 60 copies.

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1.	Prime 3-D 02:25	buy track
2.	L'amour and Her Hot-Wired Hands 03:31	buy track
3.	A Glow in the Night 04:05	buy track
4.	Only Us 05:48	buy track
5.	Ascend to Spirit 7 01:43	buy track
6.	The Gate of the Glittering Gene 04:18 video	buy track
7.	81 Love 04:16	buy track
8.	Through a CSO Window in Zero G 01:41	buy track
9.	Tears Over Chroma 04:25	buy track

about

Phono Ghosts presents his fourth collection of cassette tape memories brought back from the celestial library of ferric dreams.

‘Warm Pad, Sharp Stab’ sees Phono Ghosts delving deeper into downtempo territory with a heady concoction of night-swoon mood beats, portentous synth pulsing and DX-driven funk, mixed with drifting mystical atmospherics, ‘80s TV soundtrack melancholia, cosmic ceremonials and swirling fretless bass romanticism. Fuzzy analogue swells and digital fantasy bells. Warm pads, and sharp stabs.

Available on black 12” vinyl, retro orange cassette tape and digital formats.

Reviews:

"Phono Ghosts has created a pace and groove that seems to mirror the bio-rhythmic pulse of the listener, it locks itself in and induces a mindful, meditative state. There are no jagged edges here, it is all curved and rounded with ice-melting grooves and quarter speed downtempo. In Warm Pad, Sharp Stab, Phono Ghosts has summoned spirits of slowly coiling wooziness, allowing his synths to twist and arc around their fuzzed-out edges. It’s a triumph." Mike Stanton - I Heart Noise

"Phono Ghosts deals with the spectres of Eighties R&B and soulful electro – all fat digital basslines, chunky rhythms and a presentation that leans into a half-remembered pop vernacular. That tracks like the upbeat ‘L’Amour And Her Hot-Wired Hands’, the shimmering PWL-esque refrain of the serene ’81 Love’ or the emotional grandeur of the muted ‘Tears Over Chroma’ were not executed during digital synthesis’s takeover of music beggars belief." Mat Smith - furtherdot.com

"Phono Ghosts inhabits the icy sounds of post-FM synthesis and the nighttime funk moves of the studio owls who created the neon cool of 80s B-movie film soundtracks. He conjures up warm LA nights of crime and passion with cassette distortion and exotic pulsing thrills, but the highlight is the fretless bass on the magnificently executed nostalgic seduction muzak of 'Only Us'." Mark Roland - Electronic Sound

"For Phono Ghosts’ Warm Pad, Sharp Stab, Scrivin takes the shiny decadence of the early 80s and mixes it with the experimental electronics that followed later that decade. “81 Love” for instance channels the polished pop corners of ABC’s “Poison Arrow” through the avant brut filter of early Warp or Skam." Spenser Tomson - The Wire

"It struts, it kills, it has that synthy bliss wrapped around unconventional grooves — I’m wrecked." vehlinggo.com

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released September 13, 2019

Written and produced by Neil Scrivin.
Artwork by Neil Scrivin.

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Phono Ghosts Blackpool, UK

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