Haunted Ghost’s Chanson du Jour :: completely lost edition

Mark McGuire :: Get Lost

I am a very intense enthusiast of the whole Ohio , especially when it comes to the Emeralds camp (Mark McGuire, Jon Elliot, Steve Hauschildt, and fringe crew like Radio People’s Sam Goldberg, Hanson Records’ Aaron Dilloway, Trouble Books, and Cylindrical Habitat Modules’ Julian Gulyas) so when I saw the Editions Mego is going to release a new Mark McGuire album, Get Lost, in a month, needless to say, I was stoked. Upon listening to it, I was awash with the same wispy and emotional affectation that I experienced the first time I heard Goes By… off the 2010 Emeralds full length Does it Look Like I’m Here? The track builds slowly with McGuire’s signature guitar sensibilities and a shimmering synth dancing around in the background, but then a bit over halfway comes the classic distorted guitar static and beautiful acoustic strumming that conjure, as McGuire describes “the spirit of the summer night sky.” Listening to this for some reason recalls the memory of when I was a young child moving from California to North Carolina, sitting on the trunk of my parent’s car in the middle of the desert, crying from fear of change and looking up at the falling stars like smears of light streaking through the water of my tears. Powerful, raw, emotional, massive, beautiful. This is going to be one of those albums…

Pre-order at Editions Mego or wait for the more nicely priced domestic order on Forced Exposure or Experimedia.