Team Ghost - Terre Brûlée [12"]

This TERRE BRÛLÉE EP by TEAM GHOST was released for Record Store Day 2013. It features the singles that were taken so far from the Rituals album (Dead Film Star and Curtains), a slow song called Tonight Is Magic and the title track, which fills the whole B-side with its 25 minutes. It's an instrumental track which consists of various soundscapes and almost ambient themes. Only 300 copies were made and i'm happy that i could get my hands on one.

Label: wSphere
Cat.nr.: 3271466           
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Dead Film Star
02. Curtains
03. Tonight Is Magic

SIDE B:
01. Terre Brûlée

Team Ghost - Rituals [12", LP]

RITUALS by TEAM GHOST is a really good debut album. I wondered if they'd ever release an album at all anymore, having waited for it quite some time after two great EP's that were released in 2010. The cover of course immediately reveals that there are more people now involved besides Nicolas Fromageau and Christophe Guerin. While checking the names, it turns out that most of them were already involved with the other releases as well. Now mentioned on the sleeve as band members, Jean-Philippe Talaga, Felix Delacroix and Benoit de Villeneuve already did the previous artwork, producing and drums, for example. Speaking of the artwork, i think it's a bit too much over the top - but that's to my personal taste. I think it's neo-romantic kitsch with the skull and armors and i liked the artwork on the EP's way better.
But hey, it's the music that counts, and like i mentioned earlier it's a really good album. As long as Team Ghost will create epic songs i can't help but comparing them to M83, but it's quite noticeable that they've evolved and have become a real band now. An electronic indie rock band, with a much darker and heavier sound than M83 that Fromageau was first a part of. I'm happy they took that path. They'll be playing the London Calling Festival over here in Amsterdam in a few weeks and i really look forward to see them.

Label: wSphere Records
Cat.nr.:3267826
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Away
02. Curtains
03. Somebody's Watching
04. Dead Film Star
05. Things Are Sometimes Tragic
06. Broken Devices

SIDE B:
01. All We Left Behind
02. Fireworks
03. Montreuil
04. Pleasure That Hurts
05. Team Ghost
06. We Won't Fall

M83 / Fairewell - Team Ghost Remixes [7"]

Sonic Cathedral did an excellent job recently by releasing a split 7" by M83 and FAIREWELL, containing remixes for both artists by Team Ghost. I am not familiar with the original song by Fairewell, but what Nicolas Fromageau did with M83's Midnight City is just fabulous. The speed is heavily reduced and he created a whole new track that way; one that would serve perfectly as some movie soundtrack song.

Label: Sonic Cathedral
Cat.nr.:  SCR042
Year of release: 2012

SIDE A:
01. M83 - Midnight City (Team Ghost Remix)

SIDE B:
01. Fairewell - Wild Meadow / I've Been Locked Away (Team Ghost Remix)

Team Ghost - Celebrate What You Can't See [7"]

Released in the same year as TEAM GHOST's debut EP, this 7" is another great release by this band. Majestic, almost cinematic songs of which Signs & Wonders is my favourite. If the rumours are true, they will release their full length album this year on the French Disque Primeur label. I'm definitely keeping an eye out for that.

Label: Sonic Cathedral
Cat.nr.: SCR 024
Year of release: 2010

SIDE A:
01. High Hopes
02. Celebrate What You Can't See

SIDE B:
01. It's Been A Long Way, But We're Free
02. Signs & Wonders

Team Ghost - You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me [10", EP]

TEAM GHOST is a band that was started in 2009 by Nicolas Fromageau, co-founder of M83. He left that band in 2004, and we didn't hear from him until he relased this YOU NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG TO ME EP in 2010. Musically, it comes very close to M83. Maybe Team Ghost is more shoegaze and M83 is slightly more dance-orientated, but many of these tracks would've fit perfectly on a M83 album.

The 10" shows no sides on the label, but pics of celebrities: so we have a Natassja Kinski side, and a Lou Reed side.

Label: Sonic Cathedral
Cat.nr.: SCR 023
Year of release: 2010

NATASSJA KINSKI SIDE:
01. Lonely, Lonely, Lonely
02. A Glorious Time
03. Sur Nous Les Étincelles Du Soleil

LOU REED SIDE:
01. Echoes
02. Only You Can Break My Heart
03. Colors In Time