Ghastly City Sleep - Moondrifts

GHASTLY CITY SLEEP is one of those bands where the timeless adage of writing about music is like dancing about architecture  comes to mind. Its fundamentally pointless, especially when it comes to a band like this. Reams of paper could be written up and they still wouldn‚Äôt encapsulate the dense, lush, and often subtle textures that comprise this Brooklyn quartets true sound. A precursory scan of Google results might produce comparisons to MOGWAI or a heavier RADIOHEAD, as if it were easy to pin down those bands in the first place...  "Moondrifts" is the first full length from the band and their first output for Magic Bullet. Created over the better part of a year with Andrew Schneider behind the boards, its truly a work of art from start to finish. The amount of refinement honed by the collective members over the many years of crafting records and crashing on floors, both apart and collectively, shines like a great beacon across the saturated seas of newer and more derivative bands going for what GHASTLY CITY SLEEP truly delivers to listeners.  From the chilling opener ‚ÄúI Never Left My Head‚Äù all the way through to the stirring conclusion found in “Shake the Somber Away” "Moondrifts" is an entire album of unclassifiable music that pushes everything forward whilst simultaneously feeling like an old friend. + first proper full-length from brooklyn quartet; previous ep on Robotic empire + ex/current members of darkest hour, pg.99, city of caterpillar, majority rule + color vinyl for every copy and insanely deluxe gatefold packaging.

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