Simian Ghost

Compilation of various press reviews for Simian Ghost - Heist Or Hit Records

Swedish three-piece Simian Ghost may look like pale-faced indie waifs but their forthcoming third album deals with some pretty hefty themes. According to the band, the songs are about the issue of alienation - specifically how they don't feel connected to their peers, or the ideals of society, or Aristotle's ideas on real reality. Oh and there's some quantum mechanics in there too apparently. For the first single, the lovely jangle of A Million Shining Colours (premiered here), Sebastian, Erik and Mathias sing sweetly about a life wasted. "The song is about having spent half your life making music or communicative art in some fashion, realising the insignificance in what you are doing and coming to terms with this," they explain. "It's also about feeling disconnected with the way our western culture is heading in general, a kind of naive call for a change, or revolution if you will. It's like a half cynical hippie anthem." Featuring a chorus that runs, "I have wasted all of my time" and lots of lightly strummed guitar, it's definitely got that miserablist indie anthem thing going, all pretty melodies and over the top lyrics about putting your cardigan on the wrong way round or something.

A Million Shining Colours is released on 9 December. - The Guardian

http://hypem.com/track/20m1x/Simian+Ghost-A+Million+Shining+Colours - Hype Machine

Every now and then an album comes along that wins you over through the simplest, age-old joys of music: melody, charm and the intrinsic satisfaction of perfect symmetry. Simian Ghost are a Swedish three-piece who are the pet project of Sebastian Amström, a producer who combines a traditional band structure with all kinds of strange electronic effects.
He’s found the perfect balance of modernity and traditional songwriting on their second album, which belongs to a lineage of inventive pop from the Beach Boys to Beach House whilst sounding like it could only have been made in the present. - The Times (UK)

SIMIAN GHOST
‘Fun’

Released on 7 October 2016


“Six years of making music. Five years of being a band. Four years of doctors and pills. Three diagnoses, all pointing in different directions. No discussion though, they’re all right of course.”

Simian Ghost started out as a recording project by Swedish songwriter Sebastian Arnström. After two critically acclaimed releases as a solo act, he asked his brother Erik Klinga and their mutual friend Mathias Zachrisson to join him.

Whilst receiving attention from both national and international press, the band released their first LP as a band, ‘Youth’, in 2012. Continuing the success of the previous efforts, ‘Youth’ garnered excellent reviews, including a lead review in The Times and a spot in The Guardian naming it “an early contender for the album of the year”.

The band spent more time honing in on their craft and then in 2014, released the 18 track double album ‘The Veil’. Following the thematically lighter ‘Youth’, it was a longer album focusing on the subjects of mental instability and western philosophy, while further pushing the idea of the music itself as a living being, disconnected from it’s authors.

Now a quartet (including the newly acquired bassist Wilhelm Magnusson), the band is preparing to release their fourth self-titled album ‘Simian Ghost’.
Having made all their previous recordings at home with minimal equipment and resources, this album will be the first to contain some studio-recorded material. ”We’re just a bunch of guys doing stuff at home really”, the band states, ”so in many ways this feels like our debut album. We’re ready to do that now”.

‘Fun’ is the introductory track from the self-titled album ‘Simian Ghost' and is the first release from the record, and although it’s not a single as such, it’s a track that re-introduces Simian Ghost and their refreshing and new musical direction.

Sebastian states: “Six years of making music. Five years of being a band. Four years of doctors and pills. Three diagnoses; each pointing in different directions. No discussions though, they’re all right of course.

Two collections of demos released as albums. One before that, some random memos from infinite ideas, slowly tuned into a coherent message, albeit deftly buried.

Five years of the Earth spinning faster—of war, political turmoil and right wing airheads grabbing positions of power. Five years of cooking shows, low-fare airlines and endless entitlement. Five years of our good intentions turning into memes and pointless campaigns on social media.

But we’ll keep coming back, as always—all yours.”


‘Simian Ghost’ will be available on all streaming services in early 2017.

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