DM Stith

Heavy Ghost

Release Date: March 10, 2009
Label: Asthmatic Kitty

Abstract

If you’re looking for weird sounds, this is the place. Ghostly background singing, oddball percussion and left field orchestral elements haunt this appropriately-titled effort by the eccentric Brooklynite best known for working with My Brightest Diamond/Shara Worden. On his debut for Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label (following the demos record “Ichabod and Apple”) Stith delivers a dozen songs built on folkie instrumentation, but shot through with all manner of weird ideas. When the musical mélange works, as on “Thanksgiving Moon,” the results can be positively heavenly -- like with most good psychedelic music. Not exactly filled with conventional pop hooks, but you can always turn on the radio for that, right?

Track list

Disc 1
1 Isaac's Song
2 Pity Dance
3 Creekmouth
4 Pigs
5 Spirit Parade
6 BMB
7 Thanksgiving Moon
8 Fire of Birds
9 Morning Glory Cloud
10 GMS
11 Braid of Voices
12 Wig
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