the Third Eye Foundation Ghost

Format: CD.
Label: Merge.
Label reference #: MRG-119.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M6926
Approximate release date: April 22, 1997.
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Track listing:

1. "What Do We Do But Cry"
2. "Corpses As Bedmates"
3. "The Star's Gone Out"
4. "The Out Sound From Way In"
5. "I've Seen The Light And It's Dark"
6. "Ghosts...."
7. "Donald Crowhurst"

Twee Kitten review of Ghost
by Keith McLachlan

I was lead to believe there are not any guitars on this album, which might in fact make it a more fantastic record indeed. For omnipresent is the familiar sounds of guitar feedback, so if Matt Elliot, the chairman of the mysterious foundation, has found a new way of making guitar feedback then more power to him cause this record is stultifying.
   In fact it is not much of a departure from his phenomenal debut lp Semtex, it has the unmistakable imprint of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless on it, but coupled with a more insistent almost junglist beat. This is still a homemade record though, so while Kevin Shields throws down 15 guitar tracks, Mr. Third Eye almost duplicates the feat with much less.
   The song titles seem to suggest things are a tad bleak in the worldview of Third Eye Foundation with song titles like "I've Seen the Light and It's Dark" and "Corpses as Bedmates" however the music is not that heavy, it remains spacious and open. And the beat keeps it moving even while the atmosphere is sometimes made more sedate. This conflict in the music is always compelling and interesting.
   Matt Elliot isn't a one hit wonder, so obvious is this that Dave Pearce better get off his butt because all of his Flying Saucer Attack cohorts (AMP, Movietone, Third Eye, etc.) are making brilliant records and soon the refrain will be "Dave who?"



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