Tuesday 05 January 2010
The Ghost Is Dancing
(photo: Norm Wong)
2009 is hardly over, and already I’m in regret mode, realizing how much great music I missed or just never got around to mentioning here. That’s the blessing and the curse of being a year-end list junkie, you find some amazing songs and bands, but at the same time you realize that everything you’ve heard in the last 12 months is just a drop in the bucket.
The Ghost Is Dancing is quite possibly my biggest regret of 2009. At the start of November I posted about Alt Altman’s Digits project, noting his involvement in The Ghost Is Dancing. I had heard Grant Lawrence mention them on CBC Radio 3 a few times, too. Like Dan Mangan’s record, I had all the intentions of sitting down and listening to Battles On (their second album), but just never got around to doing so. And that’s a crying shame.
Battles On is an exhilarating breath of fresh air. It’s the finest power pop I’ve heard in ages. “Strange Times” is a spiraling, epic ballad that would be very at home on a Broken Social Scene record, and the title track has quickly become my new favourite song. It was deservedly include in the top 10 songs of 2009 by CBC Radio 3, and the album that spawned it as been in heavy rotation for weeks. Words truly can’t do it justice, you have to hear it for yourself:
MP3: The Ghost Is Dancing “Battles On”
Myspace: The Ghost Is Dancing
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