Dark Days & Canapes (Limited Edition LP)

 
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Ghostpoet
Dark Days & Canapes (Limited Edition LP)

[ Play It Again / LP ]

Release Date: Friday 18 August 2017

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'Dark Days + Canapés' is Ghostpoet's most defining album to date. A stunning and stimulating return, 'Dark Days + Canapés' is a record that captures the sense of unease felt by so many in recent times.

After receiving recognition for the beat-driven arrangements of his first two albums, third album 'Shedding Skin' initiated a more alt-rock sound that saw Ghostpoet Mercury nominated for a second time. New album 'Dark Days + Canapés', produced by Leo Abrahams, best known for his work with Brian Eno and Jon Hopkins, delves even further into a fuller, guitar driven sound.

When commenting on the first track from the album, 'Immigrant Boogie', Ghostpoet aka Obaro Ejimiwe explains; "I'm usually more comfortable writing in ambiguous terms, but this time around I felt there were specific stories that needed telling."

Serendipity and experimentalism were embraced in the studio and several original ideas evolved or were supplanted by something unexpected. On 'Freakshow' the addition of manic laughter from a gospel choir, who had turned up to sing on a different track, compounds the crazed nature of the song, whilst 'Blind As A Bat...', influenced by Talk Talk's 'Laughing Stock', saw string players invited to improvise with fragments of their performance sampled and overlaid to build something less structured, more wayward and reflective of the state of mind of the protagonist.

Tracks:

1. One More Sip
2. Many Moods at Midnight
3. Trouble + Me
4. (We're) Dominoes
5. Freakshow
6. Dopamine If I Do
7. Live>Leave
8. Karoshi
9. Blind As A Bat…
10. Immigrant Boogie
11. Woe Is Meee
12. End Times

Watch Freakshow via Youtube