Ghostkeeper
Album: Ghostkeeper
Label: Flemish Eye
Rating: ****1/2

Recorded in a number of public and private spaces and then stitched together as a sound collage, Ghostkeeper’s second album is more like a warm, itchy quilt than any sort of Frankenstein monster. Built of Shane Ghostkeeper’s varied and sporadic influences, the songs jump back and forth between an off-kilter, folk songwriting style, rickety bursts of indie rock, swampy blues-guitar tangents and a surprising amount of concord between the unpredictable instruments, Shane’s whiskey-soaked croak and Sarah Houle’s recurring, feverish moan. The album’s capricious movements tends to reach overwhelming levels at points, but it’s this loose cannon mentality that gives these Albertans their distinction from virtually every other band out there.

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