Ghost Town is the first full-length solo release from Parts & Labor singer/electrician Dan Friel. Characterized by its anthemic melodies, complex electronic arrangements and
huge distorted beats, Ghost Town is an indie record the noise kids will love and a noise record that'll inspire the indie kids to pick up some busted electronic gear and strive for immortality. Ghost Town is where everyone can meet in the middle and freak out about how insanely good this record is. Comparisons are tough but perhaps if In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was sculpted out of distorted noise you might be getting close.

Dan Friel has been using toy keyboards, guitar effects pedals, walkie talkies and r/c car remotes to
make a series of instrumental electronics EPs since 2001. Ostensibly a western, Ghost Town alternates
between dense, distorted, beat-driven epiphanies, and haunting solos from a variety of makeshift
instruments. Ghost Town also features the eye-popping artwork from renowned print/illustration
artist Shawn Reed (Racoo-oo-oon, Night People Records).

(if you plan on playing this in the record shop you work at during open hours you'd
better make sure you've got plenty in stock. This is one of those records you can sell to everyone
from the noise-heads in the corner to fitness moms looking for something to work out to. Dan Friel's
Ghost Town has universal appeal.)

Bit disappointed by this on first listen:


Seems caught between ambient and techno stalls without making much of an impact with either.

I liked this most on first listen. It struck me as kinda beautiful but on subsequent listens it's evaporated a bit. Still love the cover though.

god i love this ripping mission i'm on!

cd ripping? - nice way to rediscover old friends.

The Mill Pond was originally released on vinyl only. This limited edition CD reissue includes the first-ever collection of Fahey's paintings in the accompanying booklet. On this EP, Fahey uses heavy reverb, electric slide, and feedback to create an eerie mood. He gets a bit of help from Jeff Allman, who recorded the songs and adds some electronic noise in spots, and from Scott Colburn, who mixed the tracks, but this record is all Fahey. The Mill Pond is all over the place stylistically, so it should confuse those who try to pigeonhole Fahey into any one category. It further proves that there is only one category into which he fits: truly innovative guitar genius.

Yeah, this is a fantastic album, but this statement pretty much made my nigh (it is one of the silliest things I have read it a while).

Not sure overall, if I like this more than the last Parts and Labor album... but that was a very good record too.

there's no way you like that one, right? it just doesn't make sense based on what you normally hate.

I think it is terrific.

and strangely, it never really clicked with me.

What do you think of this one? I think it's a failure, but it's a big and ambitious and interesting failure, so I keep coming back to it. "Don't Look Down" is fantastic.

me too. and i actually liked their first two shitty records. maybe i haven't listened to it enough.

Tomorrow - s/t (1968)

great record. is that a re-release or something?

I keep forgetting that this album is playing.