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"New Ghosts' music... ...proves to be the perfect soundtrack as Chicago's winter drags on and on. Songs like "The Deep Freeze" and "Blue Night," have an icy vibe, the group layering shimmering guitars atop frontman Andrew Moir's low-key vocals. There are definite elements of shoegaze and British pop (the group cites Echo & the Bunnymen, British Sea Power and Elbow among its influences) in the trio's music, which might explain why it seems to attract so many overseas fans."
- Andy Downing, Chicago Tribune
"The sound of this Chicago based Trio fits perfectly to grey and dark mornings or evenings – apart from the walls of guitars which are used in the shoegaze-genre, there are also hints of post-rock and epic wave sounds comparable to the Chameleons"
-Coast Is Clear Blog
"New Ghosts are from Chicago and create epic, atmospheric music. "Evoking British bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, the Church, and Chameleons UK, New Ghosts blends jangly, echoing walls of guitar with haunting vocal melodies." These are orchestral tunes with shadows of shoegaze riding thru the post modern mist. Beautiful music!"
-www.marsneedsguitars.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/9/2006
Band Website: newghosts.com
Band Members: | Andrew Moir
| Jason Thompson
| Steve Pahl
| Ryan Smole
| Contact: [email protected]
Influences: We like these bands,
almost all of the time:

catherine wheel
chameleons uk
pale saints
slowdive
placebo
cure
love and rockets
adorable
british sea power
elbow
U2
cranes
auteurs
the church
doves
the sound
echo & the bunnymen
house of love
boards of canada
jesus & mary chain
my bloody valentine
killing joke
radiohead
brian eno
underworld
the smiths
joy division
prince
cocteau twins
james
wire
the damned
converge
psychedelic furs
swans
royksopp

Sounds Like: supposedly we sound like these bands,
according to some:

chameleons
slowdive
joy division
godspeed
cure
interpol
MBV
pale saints
blonde redhead
placebo
M83
love & rockets
J&MC
doves
cranes
the church
bailter space
Record Label: fake label records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Limited Edition Single/EP Out NOW

A limited edition, hand-numbered EP is now available to whet the appetite of those who have been patiently awaiting our full length release. For more info visit our website @ www.newghosts.com.
Posted by new ghosts on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:27:00 PST

Haunting Germany

New Ghosts are featured on the German music blog "Coast Is Clear". A nice writeup and a few MP3s to download... If anyone knows German please feel free to translate it for us! Check it out here.This ...
Posted by new ghosts on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:51:00 PST

New songs posted!

We posted some new tracks to our myspace page, it's been way too long. These are rough mixes of material from our upcoming release. 1. Here Come the Snakes - a semi-eloquent ill-wishing....2. Gravity ...
Posted by new ghosts on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:51:00 PST

Another Ghost Sighting!

The New Ghosts were featured on German indie blog "Coast Is Clear", but since none of us speak German we have to rely on the magic of web translators, which usually make things sound cooler than they ...
Posted by new ghosts on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:28:00 PST

New Ghosts featured on Mars Needs Guitars!

The New Ghosts have a nice writeup on music blog "Mars Needs Guitars", which features other great shoegaze/atmospheric/experimental bands. There are 2 songs available for online streaming.Check it out...
Posted by new ghosts on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:16:00 PST