Part Time Punks

The San Fransisco-band Dirty Ghosts are ready to release their new album. In the three years since their acclaimed debut-album, Metal Moon, Dirty Ghosts lead singer and guitarist Allyson Baker and crew hunkered down to record the newest Dirty Ghosts album Let It Pretend.


"While listening to the debut album from San Francis- co's Dirty Ghosts, the finer aspects of their dirty met- al-blues roots is at-once difficult to ascertain, and somehow easy to imagine. For every bubbly vocal cadence perpetrated by vocalist Allyson Baker, some filthy riff comes up for air to anchor a surfacing edgi- ness. When one of Aesop Rock's deftly articulated drum programming contributions blasts into being, the inherent groove found in the group's funktastic milieu takes the wheel and steers a bouncy batch of highly danceable cuts away from the shoulder. Looted from the still-warm corpse of SF's Parchman Farm in 2006, Baker and bassist Carson Binks began as a duo bent on rawer sonic sensibilities—essen- tially a stripped-down version of their former group. But Binks' 2011 ship-jump necessitated a new direc- tion for Baker, away from the blues-swathed avenues she'd been dabbling in, and into a newer chapter that included surmounting an aversion to singing. Helped along by Rock's influence—it ought to be known, lest the continental collide seem strange, he's Baker's husband—the debut album, Metal Moon, proffers an urbanized pop-rock piñata, bursting with saccha- rine-sweet melodies, multi-dimensional beats and a wealth of sultry sonatas." --NOISE POP