My Album Of The Week for the week of October 21st-27th, 2013:
Holographic Sands - House Ghost
A few weeks back MinneSarah I reviewed a song called "Take Off" by Holographic Sands for Songs Of The Week #60 over on Newest Industry. MinneSarah is a bigger fan of this than I am. Where she heard, "elements of the sixties garage rock and country pop that influenced the whole of American pop for years to come," I heard just a straight take on that old Buddy Holly-type rock & roll.
However, as I've learned repeatedly (most recently with Speed's The Name's No Planets Exist), just because I don't like one song by a band doesn't mean I won't like the band. I headed over to Holographic Sands Bandcamp page just to find out a little more about the band and ended up downloading this House Ghost EP.
I gave it a spin a couple of days ago and it appears Holographic Sands and I may have gotten off on the wrong foot. This EP has a less produced sound, but more importantly, is delightfully skewed, at times sounding like one of Frank Black's more laid-back efforts (think Honeycomb). At the very least this is worth spending a week with.
