New full-length due late 2011, "Dunks" EP out now on Speak N Spell Music
WATCH: The Slip
Sydney-based avant rock quartet Ghoul debut their new video for their dubby crooner "The Slip" on IFC.com this week. IFC says "This video for the song "The Slip" follows a young guy's badly blown out, glass pipe-fueled night, in reverse. Sydney based art rock band, Ghoul, craft topsy turvy pop songs that have a very unique allure, thanks to their dubstep production and the strange incantations of vocalist Ivan Vizintin. Sometimes whispering, sometimes hollering, always just airily out of reach, his vocal theatrics conjure the Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth, with a spectral bit of Morrissey."
"remnants of Ghoul’s influences are still lurking in the wings – the obvious Björk, Radiohead et al, as well as the more general dubstep, mutant r’n'b and rocktronic & folktronic pulses – but each release sees Ghoul refining these influences and synthesising them into their own unique vision." -Cyclic Defrost
"daring and groundbreaking, yet remarkably welcoming." -The AU Review
GHOUL "DUNKS" - OUT NOW
“We were listening to a lot of dubstep tunes and fiddling around in Ableton, trying to emulate drum patterns that we had been hearing,” explains vocalist and frontman, Ivan Vizintin. “The song took a huge left turn when we introduced the synth; everything just fell into place after that.”
Bursting onto the scene in 2009, Ghoul made an immediate impact with their mini-album, ‘A Mouthful Of Gold’, which they distributed free at their shows and on Bandcamp. The free release earned the band widespread adulation, with Mess+Noise praising Vizintin’s “Antony-esque croon”, Polaroids Of Androids describing it as “the musical equivalent of Frank Sinatra discovering beautifully sloppy high school punk rock”, and RoseQuartz comparing its sound to “the weirder moments of Radiohead's Kid A”.
Soon enough the band were sharing stages with the crème of Australia’s experimental underground, including PVT, Seekae and Pikelet. PVT’s own Laurence Pike openly professes to being one of the band’s biggest fans: “Built upon the precocious talents and distinctive voice of singer/engineer/producer, Ivan Vizintin, their music can be abstract, atmospheric, intensely rhythmic and at times defies conventional structures, yet it’s fiercely melodic, inventive and accessible, maintaining a focus worthy of repeated listening.”
The release of ‘Dunks’ on Sydney imprint, Speak N Spell, in January will act as a precursor to the band’s debut full-length – due late 2011 .“We are working very hard in the studio, developing as many demos as we can,” says Ivan, “then picking and choosing what we will flesh out further.”
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