GHOST ORCHIDS
Architecture CD-EP (CW006)

   This 5 track recording from San Francisco's Ghost Orchids offers a spacious balance between melodic ambience and dissonance, meshing together Factory Record's dreary melancholy and propulsion to driving postpunk and dance rhythms. Fractured, chiming guitars, ambient keyboards, and chorus-tinged bass lines are the tone of the music with the rhythm being supplied by an interesting hybrid of acoustic and synth drums, adding an almost "industrial" feel.
    Comparisons to earlier "darkwave" bands such as Joy Division and The Danse Society are quite evident although a thoughtful progression from previous projects, including GSL recording artists Subpoena The Past. A nice, fitting addition to the Global Symphonic catalog. Keyboards on this recording played by Mark from I Am Spoonbender.
  Check out their split 12" with A Luna Red and their "King Is Dead" album on Prince House!

Released fall 2001.

CD-EP ($10.00)