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Dark Days + Canap​é​s

by Ghostpoet

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One More Sip 01:31
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Trouble + Me 04:52
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Freakshow 04:05
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Live>Leave 03:48
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Karoshi 03:12
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Woe Is Meee 04:07
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End Times 03:33

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‘Dark Days + Canapés’ is Ghostpoet's most defining album to date. A stunning and stimulating return, 'Dark Days + Canapés’ is a record that captures the sense of unease felt by so many in recent times.

After receiving recognition for the beat-driven arrangements of his first two albums, third album 'Shedding Skin' initiated a more alt-rock sound that saw Ghostpoet Mercury nominated for a second time. New album ‘Dark Days + Canapés’, produced by Leo Abrahams, best known for his work with Brian Eno and Jon Hopkins, delves even further into a fuller, guitar driven sound.

When commenting on the first track from the album, ‘Immigrant Boogie’, Ghostpoet aka Obaro Ejimiwe explains; “I’m usually more comfortable writing in ambiguous terms, but this time around I felt there were specific stories that needed telling.”

Serendipity and experimentalism were embraced in the studio and several original ideas evolved or were supplanted by something unexpected. On 'Freakshow’ the addition of manic laughter from a gospel choir, who had turned up to sing on a different track, compounds the crazed nature of the song, whilst ‘Blind As A Bat...’, influenced by Talk Talk’s ‘Laughing Stock’, saw string players invited to improvise with fragments of their performance sampled and overlaid to build something less structured, more wayward and reflective of the state of mind of the protagonist.

Typically self-effacing, Obaro says; “there’s a sort of life-force that Leo and the other musicians brought to this record, and that was crucial. I want people to listen to the songs and be able to say, ‘So Isn’t just me then? Phew.”

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released August 18, 2017

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Ghostpoet London, UK

Ghostpoet (AKA Obaro Ejimiwe) is an alt-rock artist who specialises in spoken word. He has been nominated twice for the UK's Mercury Prize, once for his 2011 album 'Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam' and also for his 2015 album 'Shedding Skin.'

Based in London, UK
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