Tag Of The Day! Holy Ghost! ‘On Board’
Native New Yorkers Holy Ghost! have been getting plenty of plaudits from both the dance scene and indie fraternity since signing to the achingly hip DFA records in 2007. The band’s uniquely old school approach to producing disco influenced pop involves the use of plenty of dusty analogue synthesisers and even the hire of whole string sections just to get the sound right on certain tracks – something that probably dooms the group to financial disaster before they’ve even started.
Their latest project sees the group hook up with acclaimed British band Friendly Fires for a double A-side single where each band will cover the other’s songs. The effort from Holy Ghost! sees the band taking the raucous energy of Friendly Fires’ ‘On Board’ and slowing it down to a sleazy disco bump. Like the band’s previous track ‘Hold On’, produced by LCD Soundystem’s James Murphy, the Holy Ghost! version of ‘On Board’ mixes the up the cooler than cool production sound of DFA with a genuinely memorable vocal to great effect.
The split single will be released on March 8th and also includes a Friendly Fires version of ‘Hold On’. If you can’t wait till then you can purchase the original of ‘Hold On’ from iTunes by following this link.
