Listened to Ghost whilst doing two lifecasts today.

...and I didn't bollock it up This album clearly has magical properties that prevent me from being impatient. Well done Dev, you top banana.

Ghost makes me run faster and further.

Go Dev, giving me superhuman skills!

What's the ad for some energy drink that says ".. but a banana doesn't"?
This banana sure does!

(whatever the banana was supposed to do)

Ghost is alright but I'm not sure I could stay with him as closely if it's the blue-print for future albums. Personally I hope he keeps things varied (between heavy and light).

Listened through it in it's entirety again, and it's starting to become my favorite out of the 4 records in the DTP. And that says a LOT.

It has leaked!? Oh gawhd i wont get to my computer untill tomorrow.
I was out on a boat trip with my dad. 0 fish and we grounded the boat once. Fuk yeah.

Going to NY in the morning to do a video for Juular that will surely get folks knickers in a twist... wait till you see this, hoo boy...

!!

I would be happy playing bass in a country band tbh.

In that case you should also write the songs.

Great album. Gives me some smiles, thoughts and peace.

edit.
and some tears.

Am just finishing Ghost, on the last few notes of As You Were. Just beautiful. You know, this is the album I have been waiting for Dev to make ever since I bought Synchestra, my first foray into his solo work from SYL. On all Dev's solo stuff, and even some of Strapping, has had these quiet, peaceful, tranquil parts and moods that I've loved. I'm primarily a metal guy so it's weird that I'm saying this I guess (but maybe not so much as my metal tastes have changed in the last few years from harder metal stuff to more headier, and, in a way, softer stuff like Russian Circles, Baroness, Red Sparowes, Neurosis, etc) but I always wanted to hear what those parts would sound like on their own. Not to speak down about any of the other records Dev's made, because I most certainly am not, but I'd get a tranquil section and be really lulled in and then a heavy part or following song or what have you would come in and disrupt that peace. When I first heard Ki was coming out and what it was going to be I thought maybe I'd get that wish but, like I think it was for many others, Ki was radically different from anything I imagined it to be. It's this restrained chaos that is sort of kept down, if you will, by the peaceful parts. So, while I loved and continue to love Ki for what it was, I still hadn't got the album I was looking for. I guess the Hummer maybe has come the closest, and I love the Hummer, but for that one album I'm looking for it was too minimalistic, too "not Devin Townsend," I guess, in its lack of vocals and conventional instruments.
So that brings me to Ghost. Ghost is that album I've wanted. It's all the tranquility that has lived alongside the harder bits of Devin's catalouge and it makes me so beyond happy to finally see it given an album where it can shine on it's own. It's beautiful, it's heartfelt, it's honest, it's calming, it's soothing. This is most certainly going to become the record I put on when I go to sleep from now on (meant in an absolutely good way haha). Kawaii makes me want to cry. Looking forward to so many more listens to this, and to eventually hearing it's dark counterpart. A suburb ending to the DTP, and the perfect palate cleanser after Decon.

Even with the relaxing mood of the album there are a few parts where i think the distortion could have been cranked up a little, other than that an amazing album.

That little bit near the end of Feather that sounds like the Hummer, I was wondering if it might be a heavily manipulated Prabhujee (sp?) sample.
Was just listening and it struck me, sounds possible at least.

[Octillus]

I just heard the 256 AAC samples on itunes for deconstruction and ghost, and boy they sound so much better. This albums sounds amazing.

Radial Highway is included in the Ghost tracklisting on itunes!!


Extra track!

[Octillus]

Sayyyyyy whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

The radial highway sample sounds kinda cool.

Ho Krll is also included on Deconstruction in iTunes...

I think that I am going to love Ghost eventually, but it has not entirely 'clicked' with me the way other albums did, yet...

Still, it is a beautiful piece of work!

By the way, I am so looking forward to my CD-quality pre-order of both the albums!