New Tape Deck Mountain - "Bat Lies" & "Ghost Colony"

I like the way "Scantrons" ushers in Tape Deck Mountain's Ghost, "an album about being a ghost, thinking you're a ghost, dreaming you're a ghost, being a ghost, and getting good grades in school." You get a waft of jangling Spaceman 3 echoes via these San Diego dudes going on about passing out multiple-choice fill-in-the-bubble tests and then things shift. The group's hard to pin down across Ghost's nine songs even though they do stick to a non-clashing "mid-fi" palette that includes some of the...

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