Ghost

The Third Eye Foundation | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 17, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B0000019OW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,750 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spectral and bizarre, March 27, 2002

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Jason Robey "horakhti" (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost (Audio CD)

"Ghost" is dark insanity, haunted schizo-chill, ground-crumbling cemetery wax, rusted chain nightmares, electrified spirit trails, and all other such forms of twisted horror-show oddity. It's an amalgam of detuned strings, sinister drum 'n bass loops, and bizarre samples that at times resemble howling wolves, mumbling spirits, screaming banshees, and buzzing flies. "Ghost" won't flow easily into most ears.

This is the kind of album to turn the lights down for, with only a candle or two flickering in the empty pitch, prepared to follow the Third Eye down the blackened pathways of the mind.

The album starts fast with "What to Do But Cry?" and "Corpses as Bedmates," my favorite tracks. The tribal drums on "Cry" guide the ears past moaning beasts (what is that sound?) and chanting wraiths that seem to be speaking from the other side of the grave. Seriously. Listen to it! "Corpses" evokes the title of the album like no other song on here. Skeletal trees blowing in the wind, frenzied ghosts shrieking and circling, and a wicked drum loop to ignite the whole platter and make it dance. "Corpses" evokes images of "Fantasia's 'A Night on Bald Mountain,'" when the dead rise at the devil's behest for a grim fandango.

The album slows down a bit after these two stellar tracks. "The Star's Gone Out" sounds like rusted metal scraping and oscillating. "The Out Sound From Way In" is... I don't even know - it's just weird and fractured, but in a good way.

I won't try to describe the final three tracks, except to say that "Ghosts" and "Donald Crowhurst" bring the mood down slowly to an almost gentle throbbing. If you have the album set to repeat, like I often do, track 1 will sound like it's from a different planet, but the progression from 1 to 7 makes total sense nonetheless.

How cool are these song titles by the way? "Corpses as Bedmates," "The Out Sound From Way In," and "I've Seen the Light and It's Dark" are compelling titles in and of themselves. It makes me wonder what the album would have been like if Matt Elliot had penned some lyrics.

I shudder.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a disturbing lo-fi horror show, February 5, 2000

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Bryan O'Sullivan (CA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost (Audio CD)

"Ghost" was the first Third Eye Foundation album I picked up, on a whim at one of my local record stores. When I first listened to it, I was shocked: this is not your typical clean, samey drum-and-bass outing. It's more like an edgy electronic soundtrack to the apocalypse.

The rhythms of Ghost are crumpled and thrashed but familiar; the harsh screaming melodies that overlay them guarantee that you won't have an easy time playing this album as background music. It insistently demands your attention and makes your skin crawl even as you tap your foot.

The overwhelming impression of this album is of devastation and paranoia, and it is just beautifully evocative. It makes a fine back-to-back combination with anything by Canada's Godspeed You Black Emperor.

Unless you know that you like harsh and creepy electronic music, you ought to think about giving this album a listen or five before you buy it. It won't grow on you; it will tunnel inside.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best TEF Album as a Whole, July 6, 2000

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Nathan K. Rockswold (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost (Audio CD)

Ghost was the first and the best album I've purchased of TEF's. This is not your regular day-to-day drum-machine, turntable, dance music. This album is different, very different (as is all TEF albums.) But Ghost, especially, layers it's waves with samples you have to listen to 15 times before being able to discern them between a wolf howling or a door squeeking shut, etc. Texture, is the key word for the album Ghost. The sounds that flow out of your speakers ARE INTERESTING. That's what puts this album, and all TEF albums, on the map for me. Sure, it is somewhat haunting, and beyond that, it is also dense and intricate, pleasantly disturbing to the ear and mind. The album as a whole is brought together perfectly, starting on top of the climax, slowly coming down, until finally scraping somewhere against the floor. Each track flows very well into the next, and each track is as interesting as the last. You Guys Kill Me doesn't have that flow, though the individual tracks are well done. And Semtex is somewhat a disappointment compared to this album (save the 1st track.) Get Ghost if you haven't already and especially if you are interested in SOUND.