Extended Family by Ghost Pal (Brooklyn, New York) *
“I love how happy Ghost Pal’s page looks” my girlfriend said, looking over my shoulder as I put on Extended Family. The album, as far as I’m concerned is the stage entrance from the band that we’ve deserved for so long, but been denied by frontman Oliver Ignatius, a cruel, cruel man. First there was talk of Nathan Jones is Dead, the bands concept album. When I saw Oliver chilling at Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen, he was telling me something along the lines of “Yeah, we basically recorded the entire album, then went out and bought some new equipment. So now we have to re-record it all, with the new equipment.”- fair enough? No. Fuck you guys, I’ve been dying for a formal album, hell even an EP for nearly a year now. Let me take a step back. The reality is that in this modern age, we’ve come to expect a constant stream from out favorite musicians. It’s the internet’s fault. Well, that isn’t the way genius works, and when your talking about Ghost Pal, you’re talking about genius whether you, yourself are intelligent enough to recognize it or not. Extended Family is the first set of tracks from the group originally released as a bundle, and for good reason. Dripping off the brows off the conceptual recording process, all five tracks play a specific role in an audio narrative that only the foolish would miss. Ghost Pal is great for the same exact reason Radiohead is and that, my friends, is a guttural feeling alone. Trust the Dingus. [Free Download] Dingus
