#200: Heavy Ghost

Today's Music of the Day is Heavy Ghost, by DM Stith. Now, I don't know anything about this album, except that some guy at the AV Club just loved it. This was enough for me to download it and listen to it several times over the course of the past few weeks.

Heavy Ghost has drawn some comparisons to Bon Iver's For Emma, Long Ago (forgive me if I didn't get that exactly right). These comparisons are apt on some level that mostly consists of volume and instrument choice, but I have a hard time linking the two. Heavy Ghost is an appropriate name, mostly because the album has a sound that is, for lack of a better word, spooky. There are all kinds of 'ooo' backing vocals throughout the album, and the lead vocals are prominently enunciated on a few tracks, but not consistently.

Overall I like this album, but I don't 'like' like it. Songs like "Fire of Birds", where the vocals are more central to the song, are more accessible, but there aren't enough of them on the album. The overall sound is interesting, but it seems to keep its distance too much of the time to be enjoyable. I can't really speak badly of this album, but I feel like we aren't destined to be friends. I'll probably stick to Mogwai and Sigur Ros, though maybe in a year or two when DM Stith puts out another album I'll be more open to its particular sound.

In Other News:
I guess I decided not to do anything for post #200. What did I do for #100, anyway? Perhaps I'll still do something special in the future...or just make another playlist and review it.

I woke up early again today.

Why can't it be next Tuesday already?