Mudboy
These Songs Are Ghosts- Hungry Doors

Cover art for These Songs Are Ghosts- Hungry Doors by Mudboy Description: USED LP in amazing peek-a-boo sleeve on Not Not Fun, EX+/EX+
Format: LP (vinyl)
Condition: Used
Genre(s): Uncategorised, Noise / Industrial / Extreme, Experimental / Abstract
Label: Not Not Fun
Price:
£11.99
Availability: Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4Rating: 4
...according to our on 21 September 2007.


Records like Mudboy's 'These Songs Are Not Ghosts' reward you for sticking with the vinyl format. The sleeve is as gorgeous as any record I've seen. It's a complex laser die cut job with a printed inner that sits beneath. Ace metallic print and blood red vinyl. Fantastic. The sounds are brooding. ritual style magic drones and off the planet sounds. Providence RI must be populated by total freaks. I've yet to hear a sane record come from those parts. Speaking of which there a like 5 new records on Load due soon including a new Sightings album. Yours truly is gonna have to sell a kidney.
This wanders into slightly understated prog/ psych turf which my 'lady' describes as someone messing about in her their bedroom. She knows nothing about this stuff but I do appreciate her input. LOL. It does have an endearing simplicity to it at times which I really do like. Lo-Fi Melancholy keyboards and all.

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What their label says...

FOR MOST OF US, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION ARE TRIPLE-BOLTED SHUT AND CAST IN BOMB-PROOF IRON. ONLY SUPERNATURAL SHAPESHIFTERS (OR CAREER CRIMINALS) CAN SLIP THROUGH AND SEIZE THE WISDOM WITHIN. BUT, SWEETLY, THERE IS A HIDDEN ENTRANCE: MUSICK-AS-MAGICK. PROVIDENCE, RI PATCH-CABLE CONJUROR MUDBOY IS ONE SUCH SECRET KEY-CRAFTER AND HIS UNLOCKING LABORS ON THIS LONG-PLAYER STAND AT THE SUMMIT OF HIS ALREADY AWESOME DISCOGRAPHY. ALCHEMIZING STYLIZED SOUNDTRACK SPELLS, ORGAN WIZARDRY, MELODIC MIND-READING, AND ELEGANTLY MEDITATIVE HARMONIUM HALLUCINATIONS, HUNGRY GHOSTS! THESE SONGS ARE DOORS LIGHTS AN URN’S WORTH OF RITUAL POWDERS AND POWERS, FILLING THE SPEAKERS WITH A SIGN LANGUAGE OF SMOKE RUNES AND GHOST TONES. LIE ON THE FLOOR AND BE FLOORED BY MUDBOY’S PRIMORDIAL PLAINSONGS. RECORD COMES HOUSED IN A DIZZYINGLY INTRICATE LASER DIE-CUT FOLD-OVER COVER WITH AN ACUTELY ALIGNED FLAME-SILKSCREENED INNER SLEEVE. PAINSTAKING AND PERFECT. HALF ON BLOOD-RED WAX, HALF ON BLACK. LIMITED TO 500