Our first brush with Ghostlight came via an album of remixes…so it’s nice to spend some time with an original work courtesy of the Tokyo project. “Wendy” is a “rain song” that actually came out in a slightly more skeletal version late last year on European label Seashell Records Pluviose comp, but in 2014 now…
This album has been out for about a month now, and has lingered in my mind since I first heard it. It finds producer Ghostlight, who has been featured on prior installments of Fogpak and on Ano(t)raks compilations, teaming up with various other producers to create buzzing, at-times dreamy songs that aim to absorb. Some…
Initially, it looked like netlabel Ano(t)raks was going to define itself as a destination for indie-pop music. Which it still very much does – the bulk of the artists appearing on their compilation albums over the past few months certainly skew towards the twee. Yet with latest various-artists collection World Awake, the fledgling label has…