May 8, 2012

TV Ghost – “Phantasm” b/w “Panic Area” 7” (Sweet Rot)

Hit-and-miss band delivers a miss. It’s in their typically dark, scary demeanor, but this time the scares seem so piled on and so part of some dramatic presence TV Ghost seems to be trying to bring to their years-long career of playing through every side of Anglo-American dark rock with guitars from Teenage Jesus up on through to Bauhaus. It’s hard to believe that a band which has made some pretty frightening music now needs to crafts its premise with the subtlety of a Halloween sound effects record. Hello, Miss! (http://sweetrotrecords.bandcamp.com)
(Doug Mosurock)