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David has been cutting his teeth for 10 years in various bands around the Tampa area. Most recently he's been half of MERCHANDISE and a quarter of NEON BLUD, before that he was one of the primary song writers in CULT RITUAL, and all this time he has had 5+ other projects on deck. Very rarely do we drop the ex-members card at VINYL RITES, but having that kind of musical pedigree is pretty unbeatable. His first solo LP is wildly different from the aforementioned groups, although it shares some of the bedroom sensibilities that MERCHANDISE espouses so well. Luckily for all of us, great song writing transcends genre and with BOOK OF GHOSTS he explores more of the Creation Records and 4AD back catalog. His musical hombre ZZ compares it to FELT and TRANS era NEIL YOUNG. It seamlessly goes from intensely personal singer-songwriter numbers to huge and lush shoe-gazing darkness, from NEW ORDER pop to THIS MORTAL COIL downers. Not only our favorite release on VINYL RITES yet, but it's also the most hauntingly beautiful recordings we've heard in years.
TRACK LISTING:
1. L'incipit
2. Death Will One Day Rob Us All
3. Imaginary Boy
4. L'ange de L'assassinat
5. Graves
6. Jacob's Ladder
7. Mirror
8. The Last Days of Hart Crane
9. That Misery of Yours...
10. Beatrice
Here's a video Dave made for a track off the LP, check out the other videos on the Tampa crew's Vimeo page too:
http://vimeo.com/32994460
These will go on sale 12/15 but WILL NOT START SHIPPING UNTIL DECEMBER 26th. All parts are in hand but the lines at the post office are too long before the holidays. Thank you for your patience.