more about music for the ghost town on the beach (and the people who miss them)

album art for “ghosts on the beach”. the teal is sharpie drawing and the purple is linocut carving. i was sticking with the ghosts theme for this album.

this album was a continuation from the ideas i’d had in the previous one. i wanted to try some new VST’s i’d gotten and do a vaporwave-style album. i got as far as the first three songs before falling into my usual style. indra’s pearls was both a regression and evolution in my apocryphal church music style, and dives was something i’d been dying to do. it’s based off “dives and lazarus”, which is a church hymn slash irish folk song which i’ve always loved the tune of. i made it very much my own, and removed all the religion from it. i’ve stolen it from the church.

the album artwork is a combination of some faces i drew in sharpie and a lino-cut carving of faces that i also did. i always loved whipping out sloppy, spooky faces like these. i think they really fit what i was going for. i was sticking with ghosts for this. i think of this album as a continuation of my first one more than a standalone thing. i think it works.

there’s not too much else to say about this album. i pushed it out after only five songs because i felt trapped by the styling restrictions i’d placed on myself. i think vague notions of “vaporwave” were never really what i’d truly wanted. i called it done so i could move onto something else, something better. i’m glad i did.