Dan Friel’s Ghost Town Pt. 1 is like a M. Night Shyamalan film. No, not because it has drawn-out sycophantic crane shots, but rather because it has a great twist. See, even though the song starts out with disembodied yips and fluttering tones swerving into each other announcing the arrival of an electro-noise rampage, we actually end up in the midst of a head-bopping, albeit fractured, mindmeld of a pop tune.

The Parts & Labor member seems to have concocted Ghost Town Pt. 1 as if it were performed by a parade of broken toy robots. It starts off sputtering and clunky, sounds eagerly coming together, as if the the little tin men were arduously piecing themselves together to quickly fall into marching sequence and compel all onlookers to join in their surprisingly merry and electric party. In fact, Friel’s song is auspiciously fun, and he’s chief jester of it all, testing out sonic possibilities in this beat-driven composition, bending and twisting blips and bloops into skewered, wavering melodies, washed in a crispy, distorted static coating. You’ll be surprised at just how engrossing this song becomes, listen after listen. Kind of like Unbreakable but unlike Lady In The Water.

MP3: Dan Friel - Ghost Town Pt. 1

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