forceghost has debuted their new single titled ‘oh no you didn’t’. Experimentation isn’t only when the first capital letter is in the second sentence, it’s when you feel compelled to listen to a new track simply because you don’t know where it’s going. ‘oh no you didn’t’ is a track that is a new take on feeling. A book you can’t put down, but may have picked up because you liked the cover and found it to be much more than said cover.
Innocent sounding falsetto behind, aside, and around the ever-tronic rendition of originality bobs and weaves around the dissonance and tension created by the overall sound and sonic sensations. Sometimes artists need to think outside of the box just to watch that box burn.
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About forceghost
From first breath to final step, life is an exploration. It is a journey of enlivening light and celebration aligned to the discomfort of shadows and emotional turbulence where at any given moment unpredictability and surprise makes for close companions. That adventure equally applies to and is echoed in the creative realm of electronic psych duo forceghost.
Augusta, GA based forceghost is the creation of Eric Kinlaw (vocals/guitar/bass/sound design) and Marcus Barfield (production/sound design), a pair with many years of musical evolution and collaboration together that their latest project embraces within its own boundaries pushing explorations. The band initially emerged in “a slightly different form” in 2019 but soon found itself in the hold and restrictions of the Covid pandemic. This absence and parting allowed individual musical and emotional explorations to subsequently merge within the band’s return to physical freedom to fuel what could be described as a new beginning for forceghost.
Early 2024, the band unveiled their debut EP, ‘unknowing the known’ which in turn revealed the ethereal kaleidoscope of their electronic seeded sound. Eric and Marcus weave panoramas of emotional and electronic synthesis as the former’s intimate lyrical contemplations address personal themes of loss, conflict, and sadness. Musically, a host of genres and flavours are drawn into their variegated and electronically seeded sound and by the song they expose the new quest and imagination in their creativity and enterprise centred by Eric’s warm yet sorrowful tones.
As the band’s acclaimed first release showed, there is also an uplifting breath and reassuring radiance within forceghost’s melancholic soundscapes to confirm that “that it is okay to completely fall apart and that it is okay to completely start over”, suggestiveness shared with velvety guitars, soaring synths, and hauntingly beautiful vocals.
That instinctive evolution and continuing experimentation again provides an inescapably involving invitation within the new forceghost EP, ‘recycled hearts’. The four-track release is the pair’s boldest and most creatively prismatic offering yet while again reaching into the shadows of the heart and emotional fatality. Even so, it bears the distinctive individuality and presence of forceghost like a luminous shroud around the darker realms within, it all making for their most intimately revealing, emotionally intensive and creatively emboldened offering so far.
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