'In the full moon's light'

So another one from Myspace today. I honestly believe i'll be finding most of my bands on mysapce, since there's nowhere else i can really find completely random bands i've never heard of. Not that i'm complaining though, i've already found one band i love from myspace (Au Revoir Simone) and, if i'm completely honest, i think this review here contains another one. I introduce to you the electro/pop sytlings of

THE BLACK GHOSTS

Ok, so. Electro - check. I've been into a lot of electro music recently so i'm excited at the prospect of finding another one to add to my collection.
Pop - check. Hmm, another genre that's always been somewhere in my music collection but recently has come more to the forefront. 
So already a promising start for this band. Also i have to say it's nice to find a predominantly male electro/pop group among the very many out there that are female.

So i'll be reviewing their self-titled album here, and we kick things off the a track called Some Way Through this which is - am i allowed to say this unbiasedly? - fucking fantastic. Now i've been through this before, the fact that i'm always wary of music i find amazing from the get go, but there is  definately something to be said about an album that atarts like this. From the very opening it has all  the elements of music that i love - the classical instruments backed by drum machines (this is honestly one of my favourite techniques in music) and then the lyrics begin which, ok may seem a bit dreary at the beginning, but they fit perfectly with every other element going on. Then we get the other odd little  synths and sounds coming through and it's clear that aside from this being a great track to listen to, the composition of each seperate instrument/sound comes together perfectly to produce a really well thought out track. And this gets me very excited for the rest of the album.
The next few tracks build on that same great composition introduced with the first track, although the use of drum machines and synths in at least the next couple of tracks are a bit more hip-hoppy (that is a word) which, while that isn't necessarily a problem, makes the whole thing sound a little bit... ordinary. I'm here to pass judgement here but after that absolute gem of a first track, it is a slight  let down when we reach these ttracks that are more restrained and that don't pick up on that whole instrument over synth thing that i love (i'm sounding a bit obsessive now right?) But. I'll persevere with the album.

The next track of note is 'The Full Moon' whose lyrics hint at more of a folky genre. We begin with soft melodious guitar which is, like the first brilliant song, is soon joined by electro elements that add a nice depth to the song which, with that undertone of folk in the lyrics, and later the addition of the violin, turn this into actually quite a haunting, even medieval like song which is a fantastic reprise from the previous, more in your face tracks. and that assures me that this band cetainly aren't the shallow electro/hip-hop band those earlier tracks hinted at.

What's also nice in this album is a mixture of more subtle electro elements like in 'Some way through this' and 'The full moon' and tracks that hurl drum machine and synths at you from the beginning like 'I want nothing' and 'Anyway you choose to give it'. Even then, however, there is a nice restrained feeling that assures you that this band doesn't hide behind this electronica as an excuse for failings elsewhere, and that in all they are a solid band who, in retrospect, slip rather intelligently between genres and moods. And really, when i look back at the album as a whole,the tracks i wasn't sure about before really do add to the overall feel of this album.