Even with the beat gently pounding away, the first half of the latest creation from Ghostlight sounds like something you could wrap yourself up in. It’s all string plucks, twinkly electronic notes and the near-whispered voice of guest Nogawa Kazune drifting over the playroom skip. It’s calming and somewhat heartwarming (the lyrics reveal a little…
It’s easy to forget that one of the benefits afforded by the internet…at least in theory, not sure how this has gone down in reality…is the ability to just do what you want, without fear of existing boundaries and restrictions. Omoide Label has been one of the better netlabels in recent times exploring this maxim,…
A bit cruel for a song like this…one called “Week End” even…to pop up closer to Monday than Friday, but what are you going to do? Ghostlight craft a skippy electro-pop number here, one with male-female joint vocals that builds up to a woozy little finale. A few off-kilter percussive beats pop up here and…
It has been 20 years since Fukuoka outfit Number Girl formed, an outfit that went on to create some of the best (and most frantic…and intense…and, well, more adjectives could be stuffed here) rock music of the ’90s and early Oughts. To honor them, a bunch of artists from across Japan have put together Good-Bye…
Look, I’ve been sitting in Houston’s lame-as-hell airport for six hours now waiting for a flight, and things were getting kinda rough mentally for a bit. But this new song from Ghostlight…it is bouncy and hooky and made me feel better. For now, that’s all I need to say. Listen above.