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Popestar / Ghost.

By: Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: LVR00065 | Loma Vista RecordingsPublisher: [United States?] : Loma Vista Recordings, [2016]Distributor: Beverly Hills, CA : distributed by Concord Music Group Copyright date: ℗2016Description: 1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Square hammer (3:59) -- Nocturnal me (5:13) -- I believe (4:06) -- Missionary man (3:42) -- Bible (6:34).
Production credits:
  • Produced by Tom Dalgety.
Performed by Ghost.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD POP/ROCK Ghost Available 33111009053626
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The second EP from the macabrely debonair Swedes, Popestar finds Ghost parsing through their vestment-black Rolodex and pulling out a compelling five-track set that pairs their most commercial-sounding original offering to date with a quartet of equally earworm-heavy covers. If "Square Hammer" is indicative of what's to come after 2015's Grammy Award-winning Meliora, then fans are likely to find themselves continuing to wrestle with whether or not Ghost is a pop band disguised as Satan's little helpers or the sonic incarnation of the great trickster itself. Flush with hooks and sounding for all the world like a mashup of Savage Amusement-era Scorpions and peak Blue Öyster Cult, it's a bold blast of rock radio might, and it acts as the perfect setup for the sugary, witches cauldron-brewed stew that follows. A faithful albeit hammer of the gods-heavy rendering of Echo & the Bunnymen's "Nocturnal Me" kicks things off, followed by a deconstructed, goth-tastic take on Simian Mobile Disco's "I Believe" and a winking, UFC montage-disposed reading of Eurythmics' "Missionary Man," but Ghost save the best for last. "Bible," an ecclesiastical late-'80s power ballad from Stockholm alt-rock giants Imperiet, is shown great respect, and suggests that Papa Emeritus and his nameless ghouls may have honed their dark arts via air guitars and toothbrush microphones in front of their bedroom mirrors, emulating its muscular stadium pageantry. That is, until a sinister voice-over, which does not appear in the original version, chimes in at the end with "I will wipe from the face of the earth this human race I have created," effectively tamping down the coffin lid on whatever sorry bit of salvation the track's previous owners had managed to conjure. ~ James Christopher Monger

Title from container insert.

Performed by Ghost.

Produced by Tom Dalgety.

Recorded at Gardenia Studio, Linköping, Sweden.

Compact disc.

Square hammer (3:59) -- Nocturnal me (5:13) -- I believe (4:06) -- Missionary man (3:42) -- Bible (6:34).

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